Patient education
Thigh Lift: Guides
Twelve guides written for the person deciding, not the person studying. They follow one question each: whether your problem is skin rather than fat, where the line of the incision would sit, what the first fortnight asks of you, and when a thigh lift is the wrong operation.
All guides
12 guides
- The Scar Is the OperationDeciding
- Skin, Not Fat, Is the IndicationCandidacy
- How Inner Thigh Laxity Is AssessedCandidacy
- The Groin Crease Incision and What It HidesPlanning
- The Vertical Incision: When More Skin Has to GoPlanning
- Staging the Two Thighs: One Operation or TwoPlanning
- What a Thigh Lift Does to the Fat UnderneathPlanning
- Weight Stability Before a Thigh LiftPreparation
- Drains, Garments and the First Two WeeksRecovery
- Walking, Sitting and Wound Care After a Thigh LiftAftercare
- Recurrence: What Happens as the Skin AgesDurability
- When Not to Have a Thigh LiftDeciding
Establish whether the problem is skin or fat
Arrange an assessment. The examination establishes whether your inner thigh problem is skin or fat, where an incision would fall and how far it would have to run, and what the recovery asks of you. If a lift is not the right operation for your thighs, we say so.