Who Gets Body Contouring?
Younger patients and those who got closer to their ideal weight after the bariatric surgery are more likely to request the body contour procedures, finds Devinder Singh, MD, a researcher and resident in plastic surgery at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Singh’s team compared 24 patients who underwent body contouring with 169 who did not, trying to find out which factors predict requests for the procedure. Those who opted for the body contour procedures were, on average, 36 years old; those who declined the extra surgery were, on average, 41. Women greatly outnumbered the men; of the 24 patients, only four were men. The body contour patients were also closer to their ideal weight than were those who declined it, she found. They had lost 70% of the excess weight they needed to lose, while those who declined had lost just 62% of their excess weight one year after bariatric surgery. The study results make sense, says Robert Bell, MD, a bariatric surgeon at Yale University and one of Si
