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Weight Loss Treatments in Athens
Transform your body at Pittman Plastic Surgery in Athens, GA. Led by the renowned board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Ed Pittman, our team specializes in surgical and non-surgical Weight Loss and body contouring treatments to help you achieve your ideal physique. Whether you want to firm up loose skin or target stubborn fat, we offer a range of advanced procedures, including tummy tucks, liposuction, CoolTone, and CoolSculpting Elite®. Trust us to sculpt your body, eliminate excess fat cells, and unveil a stunning silhouette.
Weight Loss Treatments Overview
Body contouring refers to a range of procedures designed to reshape and enhance your body’s appearance by targeting specific areas. We offer solutions tailored to your unique needs. From surgical liposuction to non-invasive fat reduction methods such as CoolSculpting Elite®.
How Weight Loss Treatments Works
Weight Loss treatments like CoolSculpting®, CoolTone, tummy tucks, and liposuction target and eliminate fat cells in specific body areas, helping enhance overall body contour.
- CoolSculpting® is a non-invasive procedure that freezes fat cells, allowing your body to eliminate them over time.
- CoolTone is a non-surgical treatment that uses magnetic muscle stimulation (MMS) to induce rapid muscle contractions, effectively strengthening your muscle fibers. During a session, approximately 25,000 muscle contractions occur within 30-45 minutes, thanks to the electrical current penetrating deep into your muscles.
- Tummy Tucks involve a surgical approach to remove excess fat and skin, providing a firmer and smoother abdominal profile.
- Liposuction employs suction through small incisions to extract fat, offering a more sculpted appearance in selected areas.
These treatments offer varied methods to reduce fat volume and improve your silhouette.
Benefits of Weight Loss Treatments
Our Weight Loss treatments offer a range of benefits, from permanently eliminating stubborn fat cells that resist diet and exercise to redefining and sculpting the physique for a toned appearance. These treatments target specific problem areas, providing precise results and potentially reducing the risk of obesity-related health issues by removing excess fat. Non-surgical options available come with minimal risks and promise quick recovery times. Beyond physical changes, Weight Loss treatments can enhance self-esteem and encourage positive lifestyle choices.
Combining Weight Loss Treatments with Other Treatments
Enhancing your results can be as simple as combining cosmetic procedures like tummy tucks, liposuction, CoolTone, or CoolSculpting Elite®. These procedures complement each other, offering a more comprehensive transformation and improved body contouring. Our advanced surgical and non-surgical techniques can be interchanged and combined for the best cosmetic results.
Before deciding on paired surgeries, it’s crucial to consult with a qualified surgeon to discuss your health and personal goals. Many patients find greater satisfaction with their appearance when procedures are combined, as they work together to enhance the overall outcome.
Weight Loss Treatments We Offer
At Pittman Plastic Surgery, we provide a range of Weight Loss treatments customized just for you. Some of our treatments include CoolSculpting, CoolTone, liposuction, tummy tucks, and other advanced procedures.
CoolSculpting Elite®
CoolSculpting Elite® is a non-surgical fat-freezing treatment that permanently eliminates fat cells. It offers a non-surgical solution for reducing stubborn fat in men and women. It’s FDA-cleared to target fat in areas like the abdomen, love handles, arms, back, thighs, and chin. Pittman Plastic Surgery is the leading CoolSculpting® provider in Northeast Georgia.
Liposuction
Liposuction is a cosmetic procedure that removes extra fat from specific areas such as the belly, hips, thighs, stomach, or arms, helping to enhance and contour the body’s shape resulting in a more defined physique. The process involves using a small tube called a cannula to suction fat cells from beneath the skin through tiny cuts.
Tummy Tuck
A tummy tuck is a surgical procedure that slims and shapes the abdomen. It removes excess fat and skin while tightening weakened stomach muscles. This procedure helps achieve a flatter, more toned midsection, useful when diet and exercise aren’t enough, such as in diastasis recti where abdominal muscles have separated.
Before, during, and after
What To Expect Before Weight Loss Treatments
Before undergoing Weight Loss surgeries in Athens, your initial consultation will involve a comprehensive evaluation, which includes a review of your medical history, lab tests, and a discussion of your Weight Loss goals to craft a personalized plan. To minimize the risk of excessive bleeding during surgery, you’ll need to stop taking specific medications—such as blood thinners and NSAIDs—at least a week before the procedure. Before the surgery, Dr. Larrabee will carefully mark the areas to be treated with precise circles and lines to guarantee accuracy. It’s also advisable to arrange for someone to drive you home after the surgery and to set up a comfortable recovery space at home. Alternatively, CoolSculpting Elite® and CoolTone offer a non-surgical option, though they may cause mild side effects like redness, bruising, swelling, tenderness, itching, and numbness.
What To Expect During Weight Loss Treatments
During liposuction, anesthesia ensures comfort as Dr. Larrabee uses a small cannula to break up and suction out fat, sculpting your body. A tummy tuck tightens abdominal muscles and removes excess skin through an incision above the pubic area, creating a smoother, firmer contour. CoolSculpting Elite® offers a non-invasive alternative, using a cooling applicator to target fat, which the body naturally eliminates for permanent reduction. CoolTone enhances muscle definition with magnetic energy, simulating the effects of 25,000 sit-ups, with minimal temporary redness or soreness afterward.
What To Expect After Weight Loss Treatments
After a tummy tuck or liposuction, the surgical area will be covered with specialized bandages. You may be asked to wear a compression garment to reduce swelling. Small drainage tubes could be placed under your skin to prevent fluid buildup. Dr. Larrabee will provide detailed at-home care instructions, and medications, and schedule follow-up visits for your recovery. During the initial recovery phase, expect some discomfort, swelling, or bruising, but these symptoms are generally temporary. Most patients return to work within two weeks, depending on the physical demands of their jobs. Results are permanent with proper care. In contrast, CoolTone and CoolSculpting® require no downtime, allowing patients to resume normal activities immediately. These treatments offer permanent results but maintaining them depends on your lifestyle choices.
Frequently Asked Questions
While cosmetic surgery can be highly effective for Weight Loss, there are mild rare risks and side effects. For example, a tummy tuck can rarely result in risks such as bleeding, infections at the incision sites, reactions to anesthesia, changes in skin sensation, unfavorable scarring, and fluid accumulation. Similarly, liposuction carries rare risks including anesthesia complications, infection, bleeding, bruising, and fluid buildup. Patients might experience swelling, numbness, and temporary changes in skin sensation. It’s crucial to consult with a board-certified plastic surgeon when considering these treatments to ensure safety and effectiveness. Dr. Larrabee, a skilled and experienced board-certified plastic surgeon, prioritizes patient safety in all procedures. Alternatively, CoolSculpting® and CoolTone offers a non-surgical option, though it may cause mild side effects like redness, bruising, swelling, tenderness, itching, and numbness.
Weight Loss treatments can provide lasting results, with some procedures offering long-term or even permanent benefits depending on the treatment chosen.
Sessions needed vary depending on the treatment performed. Surgical procedures usually only require one treatment.
Combining these treatments with a healthy lifestyle of diet and exercise can enhance and sustain your results.
People who are healthy, near their ideal weight, and struggling with stubborn fat that won’t budge with diet and exercise make excellent candidates for Weight Loss surgical and non-surgical procedures.
FROM OUR PATIENTS
“My results…. I was a stage “3 drooper” going in…. breastfeeding had wrecked my breasts and I am too young to be seeing what I saw in the mirror.
I didn’t think that I could go into this expecting to look like a 20 year old again but let me tell you, I was wrong.
My breasts are better now than they ever were and I can’t believe it! Not only that, they don’t look unnatural at all… they are perfect!!!!!! Dr. P is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!”
“Dr. Pittman and his staff were totally professional, positive, and caring during my pre-op visits, surgery, and aftercare visits.
Having surgery is never easy, but they did a great job of putting me at ease and explaining what was going to happen and what to expect during recovery and as I continued to heal.
I highly recommend Dr. Pittman to anyone who is considering plastic surgery. I had both a breast reduction/lift and upper and lower eyelids done during one surgery and couldn’t be happier with the results and the skill and care of this surgeon and his outstanding staff.”
“I just wanted you and Dr. P to know how much I appreciate the care I was given during my recent surgery!
I was a little nervous (ok… A lot nervous!) regarding the invasiveness and stitches involved with the “lift”, but I must say I was astonished at how quickly I felt completely back to normal!
In fact, my biggest challenge has been to dial it back a notch and remember I’m still ” recovering”. “
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