Body Lift in Jacksonville

During your consultation, we will help you determine the right combination of procedures. We may schedule your body contouring in 2 or more stages based on your overall health and the number of areas being treated.

Typically, we group stages by combining the upper body (abdomen, arms, breasts, neck, face) or the lower body (thighs, butt, flanks, knees). This method of staging helps minimize the risk of complications, like infection and blood loss. This also makes your recovery easier and faster.

Any major procedure will create scars, but most patients find their improvements in appearance outweigh any scarring that remains. During the procedure, your cosmetic surgeon will place incisions as discreetly as possible to minimize their visibility. Following your post-care instructions after your body lift in Jacksonville will also help reduce the amount of scarring.

Your body lift and contouring will permanently remove excess skin and tissue, but it will not prevent future aging or fluctuations in weight. For the best results, we recommend patients be at or near their ideal weight before surgery and maintain a steady weight after surgery. With proper care, you can extend the results of your treatment long-term.

A body lift is ideal for patients looking to age with grace or sculpt the body after pregnancy or significant weight loss. The procedure addresses loose, sagging skin and lingering body fat. Removing bothersome skin and fat often improves patients’ mobility and self-image.

The expert surgeons at CSA JAX often combine adjacent treatment areas (upper body or lower body) in a single procedure for smoother recovery and enhanced visual harmony. If you want to address several areas of the body in one treatment instead of scheduling separate targeted lifts, a body lift in Jacksonville helps bring your goals within reach.

However, we do not recommend a body lift procedure for patients planning future pregnancies or weight loss. Excess skin removal is safest and most effective when your weight is stable, so your skin doesn’t become stretched during healing. Our surgeons also do not advise surgery for patients with certain medical conditions or smoking habits, as both affect your healing.

You should always express any medical conditions or personal concerns to our surgeons during your initial consultation. Together, we can plan your customized care in Jacksonville.

Your consultation gives you time to discuss your body goals, medical concerns, and questions about the procedure. You will describe your ideal look and lifestyle to help our surgeons identify which treatments fit your expectations.

For example, you might want a butt lift, but if you tell your surgeon that you hope to even out your proportions and reflect your active lifestyle, a combined butt and thigh lift could help sculpt the entire lower body.

Depending on your schedule and the areas of the body you decide to address, our team might space your body lift in Jacksonville across 2 or more surgical stages. This is often the case for patients looking to contour both the upper and lower body.

The more information our surgeons have about your goals, recovery timeline, and activity levels, the better we can tailor your procedure process. This conversation also helps maintain realistic expectations for your body lift procedure. Our surgeons safely deliver natural-looking results that enhance your beauty and confidence.

Though you can receive a body lift at any time of year, we recommend you speak with our team about any big events you might have coming up, as this informs your treatment plan.

For example, if you plan to attend an important wedding in 6 months, you should book your body lift in Jacksonville as soon as you are able. Though most patients’ swelling subsides in the first 2 months after surgery, our team recommends giving yourself a buffer while your body heals. Allowing time for your results to settle also helps you plan around any changes in clothing size.

Many patients prefer to schedule surgery during the fall and winter months, when their social calendars have slowed down and they can easily cover up any healing incisions. Planning your body lift outside of swimsuit season is also ideal, as patients should protect any incisions from sun exposure and avoid submerging the wound in bodies of water like oceans, lakes, or pools.

You can discuss all these timing factors with the CSA medical staff during your surgical consultation.

Every patient heals at a unique pace. Your general health, incision placement, and usual activity play a role in your recovery.

Give your body time and grace as it heals. Rest when possible and avoid exercise for at least 8 weeks after your procedure. Depending on the areas of the body treated during your body lift in Jacksonville, the team might recommend resting in a seated position rather than fully reclining. Try not to bend or contort your body near the incision site, as this can aggravate your healing wound.

Our surgeons schedule follow-up appointments with patients after surgery and use this time to monitor your progress and advise any further revisions or returns to activity as you heal.

Your custom body lift in Jacksonville targets and trims unwanted skin and fat to contour your figure. The surgery might include skin removal, muscle tightening, and liposuction, depending on your body goals.

After removing excess tissue, our surgeons lift and redrape the surrounding skin for enhanced definition. The result is a smoother, more sculpted body.

Liposuction only removes localized deposits of unwanted fat from specific areas of the body. If the skin has maintained its elasticity, it slowly pulls back into place to hug the newly contoured figure. However, liposuction cannot prevent or treat loose and dimpled skin, so our surgeons often perform it alongside excess skin removal in a body lift procedure.

Nonsurgical body contouring treatments like Emsculpt NEO reduce fat and tone muscle by emitting specific energies, which damage unwanted fat cells and stimulate targeted muscle groups.

This noninvasive treatment improves muscle definition and reduces the appearance of body fat in the targeted area, but the therapy does require multiple sessions and intermittent maintenance treatments to deliver and sustain the desired results. The gradual Emsculpt NEO process effectively helps many patients refine their figures.

During a surgical body lift, our board-certified surgeons tighten the muscles and skin and remove unwanted pockets of fat in a single procedure. This creates more dramatic and immediate results that require follow-up appointments to track your healing rather than continue treatment. Though the recovery time is longer following an invasive procedure, many patients prefer the convenience of a single appointment to address multiple areas of the body.

The CSA surgeons permanently remove your excess skin and fat during the procedure, so the results of your body lift in Jacksonville should be long-lasting. However, body contouring cannot prevent the effects of future weight fluctuation and the body’s natural aging processes.

To maintain optimal results following your Emsculpt NEO treatment or body lift surgery, we recommend prioritizing healthy dietary habits and regular exercise.

If you’re still deciding between our surgical and nonsurgical body contouring options, our team can use your consultation to discuss how we can best support your goals.

At Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates, we know that no two patients are the same. One patient might hope to restore their pre-pregnancy body, while another patient wants to address unwanted thigh tissue that affects their mobility. Your consultation helps us understand your surgical expectations and how we can meet them.

Our board-certified cosmetic surgeons take your body goals and medical history into account as we customize your body lift in Jacksonville. As with any procedure, our team recommends an approach that enhances your natural beauty. Your features are a part of you, and we don’t seek to diminish them.

We apply this same conviction with every patient, prioritizing your comfort, well-being, and confidence from consultation to post-surgery follow-up. That’s how we’ve served over 27,000 happy patients between our Jacksonville and Oklahoma City locations since 2003!

Each of the Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates surgeons is board-certified, meaning that they graduated from medical school, completed a full residency, obtained a medical license, and then continued on to pass rigorous written and oral exams in their chosen field of practice.

Board certification is a voluntary process surgeons can pursue to further demonstrate their commitment to medical excellence and ongoing education. Although you should not look to board certification alone for certainty of expertise, this achievement reflects the highest level of training, education, and experience within the subspecialty of cosmetic surgery.

Our leading surgeons, Dr. Caplin and Dr. Nuveen, are both triple-board certified cosmetic surgeons, having met high standards of excellence with The American Board of Cosmetic Surgery, The American Board of Facial Cosmetic Surgery, and The American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. These boards also require surgeons to continue their education and sit for periodic re-examinations in order to maintain their certifications.

Decades of dedicated training, experience, and service form the foundation of our practice. When you come to Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates for your body lift in Jacksonville, our expertise strengthens your results.

You probably wouldn’t ask your nail technician to add highlights to your hair. Just because a nail artist and a hairdresser both work in the cosmetology space doesn’t mean they have the knowledge or skills to seamlessly swap roles.

The same applies to surgery.

Through studying and training in specific disciplines, our surgeons gain hands-on experience with the unique anatomy of the face and body. This familiarity enables us to tailor our surgical approaches to enhance your features safely and effectively.

The principles of cosmetic surgery also naturally differ from the techniques of other surgery specialties. Though another surgeon or practitioner could be qualified in their respective fields, a cosmetic surgeon is best equipped to perform elective cosmetic procedures with the artistic vision—and to the high standards of care—that you deserve.