The most requested surgery
designed to reshape the arm is the arm lift.
The arm lift or brachioplasty is the surgery performed to eliminate flaccidity, excess skin or fatty tissue of the brachial contour, recovering firmness.
Am I a candidate for an arm lift?
If you present:
- excess fat or localized skin around the arm due to sedentary life, weight variations or aging
!! YOU ARE A GOOD CANDIDATE !!
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Free first medical visit
In the first consultation of a brachioplasty, we take a complete medical history with anamnesis and after exposing your expectations, the plastic surgeon assesses your arm type, skin characteristics, fat accumulations, muscle tone, state of the lymphatic drainage system. and of the circulatory system and full exploration of the armpit.
What is the price of an arm lift?
At Guadalupe González Clinic we offer you the highest medical quality at the best price. We take care of everything so that you don’t have to worry about a thing. All these services are included in the price of the brachial lift:
- Preoperative study (surgery, nursing, anesthesia consultation and all complementary tests included).
- Operating room and hospitalization expenses.
- Compressive garment.
- Postoperative follow-up at 24 hours.
- Postoperative medical examinations until discharge including pain management for greater comfort.
Preoperative
In order for you to be able to do a brachial lift safely, we must assess your general condition based on your possible drug and environmental allergies, personal and family pathological history, habitual and past medication, possible previous surgical interventions, toxic habits (tobacco), etc.
It is also necessary to have a general analysis, chest x-ray and electrocardiogram. With this study you will be visited by an anesthesiologist who will verify the results, as well as solve your doubts.
At Guadalupe González Clinic we will also take preoperative photographs, which will help us before, during and after brachioplasty.
Surgical technique
We perform the surgery in the operating room, under local anesthesia and sedation or general.
The intervention usually lasts between 1.5 hours to 2 hours.
After making the appropriate marking, we made the surgical incision from the armpit towards the elbow on the anteromedial aspect. Later the skin and fat are released and the redundant part is eliminated. Sometimes this surgery can be combined with a liposuction or lipolaser. Subsequently, the tissues are approximated by planes and sutured, sometimes leaving a drain. A semi-compression bandage is placed.
POSTOPERATIVE
The first 24 hours, hospital admission to the clinic with the relevant bandage is recommended, receiving treatment with intravenous analgesic.
From the second day, you can be discharged from the hospital with oral medication and following the surgeon’s instructions.
It is normal for inflammation, pain sensation, occasional stinging and tingling to appear, which you can calm with medication and postoperative treatment as well as cryotherapy.
Between the fourth or sixth day, we do the control in the consultation where we will remove the bandage and begin neural therapy for your greater comfort. We recommend the use of a special bandage.
You will be able to incorporate relatively quickly into daily and work life, always following the specialist’s instructions, limiting strong physical activities for a few weeks, until you recover from the intervention.
The stitches are resorbable so it is not necessary to remove them. As soon as possible we will start the aesthetic treatment of the scars so that in the future they are as imperceptible as possible. Scars appear pink at first. From the 2nd or 3rd month they improve aesthetically. The final appearance of these scars is variable, depending on the characteristics of the skin of each person.
It is possible that, at first, there is inflammation, for that reason the use of a compression garment is recommended during the month after the surgery.
FAQ’s
About brachioplasty
1.
What are the expected results?
Thanks to this surgery you will get a well-defined arm, without excess skin or accumulations of fat. Perhaps with time some flaccidity may reappear in the treated arm but it is difficult to reach the situation prior to surgery.
2.
Is it very painful?
Overall, this surgery is not very painful, perhaps a bit bothersome for the first few days.