Arm Lift

Arm Lift

Arm lift

Arm lift also known as brachioplasty, removes excess fat and skin of the arm, and tightens loose and sagging skin.

Patients who are dissatisfied about their arm appearance, first have excess and sagging skin and fat on their arm. Second, have big arms. Women who have these problems, have difficulties to wear the clothes. So they seek performing arm lift surgery to remove their problems.

Arm lift removes the excess fat and skin through following procedures:

• Liposuction or removing excess fat
• Direct removing of the excess skin of the arm

In this way, the surgery will have successful result.

Who are the best candidates of arm lift?

Those who have sagging skin on their arm are the best candidates. Skin changes, due to the weight changes, exposure to sun light, age, or genetic are the factors that affect on the arm sagging.

• Some patients have big and large arms and want to have a symmetric size of arms with the body.
• Some of them have sagging arm skin, due to severe weight looses
• Some of them have sagging arm skin because of over weighting, this sagging can improve over the time.

Patients who want to perform arm lift surgery, should be healthy. Dr. Majid NadafKermani, assesses the patient’s health before the surgery.

Arm lift recommendations

During this surgery, incisions create under the armpits, and surgeons remove excess skin and fat. Visibility of scars varies from one person to the other one. Patients should accept the scar and their limitations in wearing clothes.

Those who lose weight, may experience sagging arm. Dr. Nadaf first, tightens the skin more then normal way, and desire results will appear few months after surgery. in this way, elasticity of skin, and so sagging of the arm is reduced.

Incisions of arm lift surgery

As mentioned before, scars and incisions create under the armpit or inside the arms and remains after the surgery, so, before surgery, patients should aware about this important tissue.

Another incision creates above and under the arm,  to perform liposuction and removing excess fat of this area.

Arm lift recovery

after surgery, patients should:

• Avoid to do activities with their hands for the first week. During recovery time, hands become bandage and it’s better for patients to put a pillow under their hand and try to keep their hand up to the body.This helps you, to reduce pain and swelling.
• Avoid to do heavy activities 4 weeks after the surgery,
• You may feel pain while touching the hands and arms, 1 or 2 weeks after surgery. So, Dr. Nadaf prescribes some drugs and medication to relieve the pain.

Contact Dr. Majid Nadafkermani, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon:

Address 1: Unit 10. Floor 2. Kaj Building. No 1. 9^th st. Above Kaj sq. Saadat Abad. Tehran. Iran.

Tell: +9821- 22134934

+9821-22134997

Address 2: Unit 7. Floor 3. Tiam Building. No 18. Next to Hosseini ave. Andarzgoo blvd. Farmanieh. Tehran. Iran.

Tell: +9821-26459573

+9821-26459382