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Johns Hopkins plastic surgeon Kristen Parker Broderick answers commonly asked questions about body contouring. Reaching your goal weight is a significant achievement, whether through diet and exercise or bariatric surgery. But after losing 100 pounds, you may notice some excess skin left behind. Body contouring procedures, including tummy tuck, breast lift or lower body lift, may help improve your body shape and tone. Body contouring can also help with skin hygiene by reducing the incidence of skin rash and infection that can form between the folds of excess skin in some patients. If you’re wondering if body contouring is right for you, consider […]

As part of the aging process which happens to all of us sooner or late, our skin progressively loses its elasticity and our muscles tend to slacken. The stresses of daily life, effects of gravity and exposure to sun can be seen on our faces. The folds and smile lines deepen, the corners of the mouth droop, the jaw line sags and the skin of the neck becomes slack. Around the eyes, the eyebrows droop and the skin of the eyelids gathers in loose folds. In the skin the first sign is fine wrinkles developing around the lips, at the […]