Komuna e Parisit, Rruga Ibrahim Kodra, Nd 4. Tirana, Albania 1000
0823 156 0094
Komuna e Parisit, Rruga Ibrahim Kodra, Nd 4. Tirana, Albania 1000
0823 156 0094
By thigh lifting we refer to the intervention that resolves the fall of the skin and adipose tissue of the inner thigh. A skin redundancy or laxity of the inner face of the thighs can be corrected by surgery. The inner thigh lifting technique is a surgical procedure that aims to reduce excess skin and fat present in the inner and upper area of the thigh. This anomaly can occur as a result of:
• Constitutional factors, sometimes of a family nature
• Excessive overweight
• Post-obesity weight loss.
Characteristic common to all conditions are an excess of adipose tissue and an excess of the skin characterized by a skin with poor tone and elasticity. The presence of excess skin prevents the defect from being corrected with the liposuction technique alone, but also requires a resection (surgical removal) of the skin. If this resection were not performed, the removal of only the adipose tissue with liposuction would result in an increase in skin laxity and therefore an aesthetically unsatisfactory appearance.
The operation is performed under spino-epidural anesthesia with sedo-analgesia or general anesthesia, while the days of hospitalization (usually 1-2), the frequency of dressings, the time of stitch removal, depend on the individual clinical case. The outcome is generally satisfactory from the very beginning.
The intervention lasts about two to three hours depending on the extent of the procedure necessary to achieve the desired correction.
The surgical technique usually involves a first phase in which excess fat is reduced with syringe liposuction. The second phase involves the detachment of the skin from the muscle band underlying the skin resection in varying ways depending on the excess skin present. The resection can only be horizontal near the inguinal-perineal fold or even vertical. In the first case, the scar will be limited to the inguino-perineal fold or, in the second case, extended vertically to the inner and upper region of the thigh. Subsequently, two suction drains are placed to remove the serum or blood collections in the post-operative period and the incisions are sutured. At the end of the surgery, a compression dressing and a bandage of the lower limb will be performed.
