What Is a Thigh Lift?

Thigh lift is a surgical procedure designed to remove excess skin and fat while improving the contour of your thighs. Dr. Coscia uses advanced techniques to ensure natural-looking results tailored to each patient’s unique body shape. Depending on your needs and goals, the procedure can target different areas, including the inner thighs, outer thighs, or both.

Who Is a Good Candidate?

Not everyone is an ideal candidate for a thigh lift, but many individuals with specific concerns can benefit significantly. Some factors that make someone a good candidate include:

• Loose or Excess Skin on the Thighs: Ideal candidates struggle with sagging skin or stubborn fat that doesn’t respond to diet and exercise. This is common among individuals who have experienced substantial weight loss or aging-related skin changes.
• Stable Weight: Maintaining a stable weight is crucial before surgery. Significant weight fluctuations after thigh lift can affect results and lead to further sagging.
• Good Overall Health: Candidates should be in good physical health with no conditions that could interfere with healing. Chronic conditions like uncontrolled diabetes or heart disease may disqualify some individuals.
• Non-Smoking: Smoking can impair healing and increase the risk of complications. Non-smokers or those willing to quit before and after surgery are better suited for this procedure.
• Realistic Expectations: A consultation with Dr. Coscia ensures patients understand the procedure’s benefits and limitations, helping to align expectations with achievable results.

Preparing for a Consultation

The first step toward determining candidacy for a thigh lift is scheduling a consultation with Dr. Coscia. During this appointment, he will review your medical history, discuss your aesthetic goals, and assess the condition of your thighs. Based on these factors, he will recommend the most appropriate technique, whether it’s a medial thigh lift for the inner thighs, a lateral thigh lift for the outer thighs, or a combination approach.

Take the Next Step Toward Confidence

If sagging skin or uneven contours have made you self-conscious, thigh lift could be the solution. Dr. Rudy Coscia’s expertise ensures a personalized approach and exceptional results for every patient. Contact our office today to schedule your consultation by calling our Granite Bay office at (916) 249-2863, Sacramento office at (916) 318-5826, or Coeur d’Alene, Idaho office at (208) 517-6600.

What Causes Loose Skin?

When you put on weight, your skin stretches to accommodate your heavier frame. Later, if you take off that weight, your skin may not be elastic enough to retract and fit tightly around your slimmer figure. This results in excess skin hanging from your body. Unfortunately, that skin can distract from the nicer contours you have worked to achieve.

Can Exercise Help?

While exercise is a terrific way to burn fat, it does nothing to eliminate skin. At best, building muscle can increase your mass to make skin seem less stretched in some areas, but no amount of working out will cause that loose skin to disappear.

Dieting also fails to address loose skin. Restricting calories will prompt your body to burn the fat your body has in reserve, but that has no effect on skin.

What Is the Solution for Loose Skin?

The most effective way to remove unwanted, excess skin is with surgery. Cosmetic procedures can excise loose skin and tighten the skin that remains for a sleeker, toned appearance. Dr. Coscia offers the following procedures to patients who have lost weight:

Thigh Lift

Thigh lift targets the skin that develops around the thighs. Tightening the skin can also improve the appearance of dimpled skin and stretch marks in some patients. Because fat can be especially stubborn in this region, liposuction is often incorporated into thigh lift.

Tummy Tuck

You may find stretch marks or a “pooch” of fat around your belly after losing weight. Abdominoplasty tightens the skin to achieve a flatter stomach. It also repairs abdominal muscles that may have shifted out of place. This procedure is especially popular with women after a pregnancy.

Arm Lift

Weight loss can cause the upper arms to look deflated thanks to dangling skin. Brachioplasty involves making an incision from the armpit to the elbow to remove loose skin and excess fat to achieve attractive contours.

Upper and Lower Body Lift

If you have lost a dramatic amount of weight, it is likely that you have loose skin on several areas of the body. With body lift, Dr. Coscia addresses multiple areas simultaneously. An upper body lift typically focuses on the arms, chest and upper back, while a lower body lift involves the stomach, hips and thighs.

Discuss Plastic Surgery with Dr. Coscia

After losing weight, it can be frustrating to still find yourself dissatisfied with your body. Understanding that surgery is the only real solution for loose skin may be the motivation you need to consult with a plastic surgeon. Dr. Coscia is one of Sacramento’s finest plastic surgeons, and he would be happy to help you complete your physical transformation. Please send an email to arrange an appointment.

Remove Sagging Skin with a Thigh Lift

A thigh lift is a surgical procedure designed to remove excess skin that didn’t “snap back” after significant weight loss. It can also help address aging and sagging skin that may have lost its elasticity. Either way, the goal of the surgery is to help minimize the appearance of sagging skin, helping patients feel confident and secure showing off their thighs in shorts, skirts, and bathing suits!

The thigh lift surgery is typically performed by making small incisions along the inner thigh or groin crease. This allows your plastic surgeon to access thigh muscles and re-adjust them for a more youthful appearance. After the muscles have been repositioned, your plastic surgeon will remove excess skin and close the incisions to reveal your newly contoured thighs.

Candidates for a Thigh Lift

If thigh lift surgery sounds like something you’d be interested in, here’s how to tell if you’re a good candidate for this procedure:

• You’ve recently lost a significant amount of weight and you’ve experienced sagging skin around the thighs as a result, or your thigh skin has been getting saggier as you’ve aged.

• You follow a healthy lifestyle and are willing to commit to your recovery plan.
• You are a nonsmoker with normal blood pressure.

The best way to find out of you’re a candidate for a thigh lift is to schedule a consultation with board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Rudy Coscia. He’ll work with you to determine if a thigh lift is the right surgical procedure for you, as well as what you can expect from it.

Take the Next Step

Ready to get rid of sagging thigh skin with a thigh lift? Schedule a consultation with board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Rudy Coscia at his new plastic surgery practice in Granite Bay, CA.

Dr. Coscia’s practices also serve Coeur d’Alene and the Sacramento metro area. Granite Bay (916) 773-5559 and Sacramento (916) 929-1833