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Surgery

Plastic Surgery - Body

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Reshape Your Body, Reshape Your Life

Find the confidence that comes from a more youthful appearance through aesthetic and reconstructive surgical services from UConn Health. Our expert plastic surgeons take a personalized, skilled, and artful approach to enhancing and refining your body features.

With the latest technology, a beautiful facility designed for your comfort, and a variety of transformative services that include lifting, contouring, liposuction, and more, our board-certified and board-eligible plastic surgeons are here for you. We’ll explore the best options for your desired outcomes. And all services are offered in an environment of trust, respect, and confidentiality.

You deserve to look and feel your best. Achieve the body shape you’re looking for with aesthetic and reconstructive surgical services from UConn Health.

Care We Provide

  • Tummy Tuck

    If achieving a flat and well-toned abdomen has been elusive for you, tummy tuck surgery can help you reach your goals.

    Also known as abdominoplasty, tummy tuck surgery removes excess fat and skin and can restore weakened or separated muscles to create an abdominal profile that is smoother and firmer.

    Results are permanent unless you gain a significant amount of weight or become pregnant. A tummy tuck is not a substitute for weight loss or an appropriate exercise program.

  • Mommy Makeover

    A “mommy makeover” refers to a procedure that includes a breast enhancement and a tummy tuck that is commonly requested after having children. This procedure can refine your appearance after breastfeeding, pregnancy, and a history of large babies or c-sections. But the term “mommy makeover” can be misleading. Many women chose this combination of surgeries even if they’ve never had children as well as men also looking to enhance their appearance.

  • Liposuction

    If you need a little contouring to get rid of stubborn fat deposits, liposuction may be a good choice. The procedure is ideal for people who are physically fit and are close to their ideal weight yet continue to have problem areas. Liposuction is not intended for weight loss.

    Liposuction removes exercise-resistant fat deposits in areas such as your chin, cheeks, neck, upper arms, above the breasts, abdomen, buttocks, hips, thighs, knees, calves, and ankles, to help improve your body shape.

  • Armlift (Brachioplasty)

    Find the definition in your arms with a brachioplasty procedure. An arm lift can shape and tone the arm by tightening the skin in trouble areas, such as skin dimpling, loose, sagging, or excess skin, and extra fat on the arm.

  • Thigh lift

    If the appearance of your thighs concerns you, consider a thigh lift. Designed to improve the contours of your legs and achieve a tighter, toned, and more attractive appearance, a thigh lift, often via liposuction, can eliminate excess skin or tissue and restore and define contours in your thighs.

  • Labiaplasty

    If you’re experiencing pain, discomfort, or self-consciousness due to the length of your labia minora, labiaplasty may be right for you. The most common aesthetic genital plastic surgery, a labiaplasty can help to reduce asymmetry when one is longer than the other or reduce the length of both labia to ease discomfort.

  • Body Contouring (Post Weight Loss)

    After major weight loss, a lack of skin elasticity can leave you with sagging, excess skin pockets or flattened features. Reshaping your body can help improve the shape of your arms, back, thighs, abdomen, and breasts. Body contouring procedures help to eliminate sagging skin and fat for a more normal body appearance. Your surgeon will work with you to help you determine the best approach for your desired outcomes.

  • Lower Body Lift (Belt Lipectomy)

    Skin loses elasticity over time, especially with major weight loss. The lower body lift, much like body contouring, can help. Made up of multiple procedures that are designed to contour the lower half of your body, a lower body lift can help to eliminate loose, excess skin and optimize the contour of your midsection, while also repairing the underlying tissue structures throughout your abdomen, thighs, and buttocks.

  • Lower Stomach Lift (Panniculectomy)

    Excess skin on the lower stomach can be uncomfortable and make you feel self-conscious. A lower stomach lift, called a panniculectomy, can remove hanging skin and fat from the lower abdomen for a better overall appearance.

    This procedure is not meant to be a substitute for weight loss or an exercise program. Results are permanent unless you gain or lose a significant amount of weight or become pregnant.

Additional Resources

Explore resources and education related to cosmetic and reconstructive body surgery from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).