Our bodies change over time, whether we like it or not. These changes can adversely affect our body image and self confidence. New Leaf Plastic and Reconstructive surgery can help you achieve the look you want. Eating healthy and exercising are always important habits to have, but aren’t the only tools available. At New Leaf Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery we offer several services to help reshape your body and give you a positive body shape and image.
Body Contouring After Massive Weight Loss
Whether you’ve experienced major weight loss through diet and exercise or bariatric surgery, you most likely have excess sagging skin around your face, neck, upper arms, breast, abdomen, buttocks and/or thighs. Skin loses its elasticity when it’s been stretched to accommodate excess weight. When that weight comes off, the once-stretched skin is left sagging and no amount of diet or exercise will make it go away. This sagging skin can make your body contour appear irregular and unshapely. People with extra folds of skin can develop rashes than can be extremely bothersome. At New Leaf Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery we will help restore your body to a more flattering contour.
Most patients seeking body contouring procedures will choose to undergo multiple operations performed in stages. Some of these procedures include: Face and Neck Lift, Arm Lift, Breast Lift, Inner Thigh Lift and Lower Body Lift.
Liposuction
For patients, both women and men, wanting a bit of body contouring here and there, liposuction may be the answer. The liposuction procedure involves removing pockets of body fat from under the skin using a vacuum-like instrument. Liposuction is not intended for removal of massive amounts of fat. A good candidate for liposuction is one who is in good physical shape, of normal weight, has healthy elastic skin but just has certain areas of stubborn fat deposits that are resistant to traditional weight loss through diet and exercise. The most common “trouble areas” are thighs, abdomen, flanks or “love handles”, upper arms, under the chin.
Tummy Tuck
One of the most-performed plastic surgery procedures, the tummy tuck, helps give patients seeking firmer, flatter abdomens the smooth profile they desire. At New Leaf Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, we are helping patients achieve their desired body shape. During a tummy tuck, excess fat and skin are removed from the lower abdomen along with surgically tightening the underlying weakened and/or separated muscles. This also involves bringing the belly button out through a new incision. The tummy tuck is not a weight loss procedure. It is intended for patients who have lost muscle tone and have excess skin from pregnancy, aging, significant weight loss, or prior surgery that can’t be improved with diet and exercise.
Arm Lift
One of the most noticeable areas of the body affected by weight loss or aging is the skin on our upper arms. During and arm lift procedure, excess skin and tissue is removed and the arm is contoured to create a more pleasing shape. If you are self conscious about your flabby, saggy upper arms, New Leaf Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery can help give you the confidence to wear the tank tops, sleeveless dresses and bathing suits you’ve been wanting to.
Thigh Lift
If you ask women what part of their body they’d most like to change, chances are you’ll get the same answer from the majority of them – my thighs. Dreaded cellulite, dimples and loose skin keep us from feeling comfortable in shorts and bathing suits. For some, it’s not just a matter of appearance. Excess skin on inner thighs rub together causing skin irritation and even sores. This is why many people choose to have plastic surgery to correct what diet and exercise aren’t able to. New Leaf Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery offers thigh lift surgery to people wanting smoother, firmer thighs. Excess skin, and some fat, is removed and the remaining skin is lifted and tightened, giving patients a better profile.
Skin Grafting
New Leaf Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery performs skin grafting procedures to treat patients who have extensive wounds, trauma, burns, or areas of damaged skin. The process of skin grafting involves removing a layer or partial layer of skin from a healthy part of the patient’s body and applying it to the damaged area. With time, this new layer of skin will heal over and protect the affected area.
Burns
At New Leaf Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, we treat first, second, and third degree burns. These burns may be treated with local wound care, skin grafts, flaps, and over time may need secondary procedures. Release of contractures can help improve function and produce a better aesthetic result.
Acute Hand Injuries
These patients are usually initially seen and evaluated in the ER, and the surgeries are usually done in the OR. These can be a variety of injuries including tendon lacerations, fractures, vascular or nerve injuries, or soft tissue injuries.
Carpal Tunnel Release
For patients suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome who have tried conservative management to relieve pain with no results, New Leaf Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery offers carpal tunnel release surgery. The median nerve as well as multiple flexor tendons pass through a narrow tunnel in the wrist which is restricted by a thick ligament. This tunnel is called the carpal tunnel. When this ligament causes compression and injury to the underlying nerve it can be released by a very small incision.
This will result in improvement of systems, partial resolution of symptoms, or prevent further progression of the disease.
Dupuytrens Disease
This is a disease process that causes the fascia in the hands and fingers to contract and form cords. This can cause firm, painful nodules in the palm, or even contract pulling on the fingers. This makes it difficult or impossible to extend the finger completely causing difficulty placing the hand flat on a table, putting it in your pocket, and can make it difficult to grasp objects. This is usually treated with outpatient surgery.
Trigger Fingers
The human hand is a very complex part of the body. While the task of flexing a finger might seem quite simple, there are numerous tendons at work helping us accomplish our daily tasks. Trigger finger occurs when an irritated tendon thickens, making it difficult to glide through the pulleys that surround it. As the tendon becomes more irritated, the tunnel in which passes also becomes irritated. All of this causes decreased motion in the affected finger, causing it to catch in a bent position and pop or snap when it’s opened. Depending on the severity of the symptoms, steriod injection can be the solution for trigger finger. Injections are done in the clinic, and surgery is done as an outpatient.
