Brachioplasty (upper arm lift)

Bra­chio­plasty remo­ves excess skin from the inner side of the upper arms. It beco­mes neces­sa­ry when flaps of skin remain after signi­fi­cant weight loss or with incre­asing age and do not retract.

Appli­ca­ti­on

Depen­ding on the ext­ent, the incis­i­on runs from the arm­pit to the elbow along the inner side of the arm. Whe­re the­re is less excess, a short incis­i­on in the arm­pit some­ti­mes suf­fices, fre­quent­ly com­bi­ned with liposuction.

Good to know

The scar from this pro­ce­du­re is com­pa­ra­tively long and visi­ble. Anyo­ne with only mild­ly slack skin is often bet­ter ser­ved by non-sur­gi­cal tigh­tening pro­ce­du­res. An open weig­hing-up of result against scar is part of the consultation.

Matching tre­at­ment at Swiss Der­ma Cli­nic: Non-sur­gi­cal upper arm tightening