It is Possible to Lose Weight With a Specific Effort, But What About Tightening of The Skin!

What Causes Skin to Sag?

It is possible to reach the desired weight with diet, exercises and gastrectomy. Although a volumetric reduction is achieved with the weight lost, the reduction of the surface area of the skin depends on the strength of the elastic fibers in the skin. During pregnancy, adolescence and periods of rapid weight gain, overgrowth caused by exercising, these elastic fibers stretch and if they stretch more than a certain limit they break off. If the elastic fibers are strong enough and there is not excessive weight loss, the skin loosens less. If the elastic fibers are broken, and if there are cracks in the skin and / or there has been excessive weight loss, looseness and sagging will occur as a result of the law of physics.

Why Does Saggy Skin Mostly Occur in the Inner side of the arms and legs?

Since the skin in these areas is very thin, elastic fibers are also weaker. Weight loss decreases the resistance of these areas and with the effect of gravity, sagging skin occures more and earlier on these areas than the other parts of the body.

What are the Ways to Reduce Sagging?

1) Exercises: Enlarging the muscles provides a tighter appearance by making the skin look full. Exercising does not have an effect on reducing the area of the skin. Especially in women and in cases with excessive skin sagging, it may be necessary to over-enlarge the muscles and this may cause unwanted results. This can be recommended for reducing mild skin looseness if the patient is comfortable with the muscle growth.

2) How to Make the Skin Smaller with Energy-based Systems? Unlike exercises, the systems make the skin area smaller. For this purpose, LASER and radiofrequency can be used. The controlled burn created by the systems measuring the temperature results in skin tightening beacause the body wants to reduce the surface of the burned area. Tightening effect occurs both in the skin and between the skin and the muscle. While the areas treated with controlled burns heal, the body produces collagen and uses in these areas. These systems can be used in patients with mild or moderate sagging and it is possible to perform liposuction along with it. It will be sufficient if the skin thickness is enough.The systems that penetrate the tissue while using are much more effective than those devices that are applied from the surface.

3) Lifting Surgeries: If there is an excessive saggy skin, and if the skin is thin and there are too many cracks in the skin, if the amount of fat removed by liposuction is high, and the weight lost is too much, the method that will provide the greatest tightening is body lifting. Body lift surgeries can be performed on the whole body. However, they leave scars. These scars are varies from patient to patient, some patients may have an indistinct scar, while others may have large and thick scars. They provide skin tightening and make the skin smaller very effectively compared to exercising and energy-based systems.