Body Lift Turkey

People who ask us about a body lift have usually been on a long road already. Many have had a gastric sleeve or bypass. Others lost the weight the hard way, over years. Either way, the scales finally say what they wanted, and the mirror doesn't. A heavy fold of skin hangs at the front. More of it folds over the hips and droops at the back. Jeans in the new size still won't sit right.

Of everything we plan, a body lift in Turkey is among the largest. We've laid this page out in the order you'll meet it, starting well before the operating theatre.

Before anything else: the weight has to stop moving

After bariatric surgery, weight usually keeps falling for longer than people expect. A body lift done during that time is done on a body that hasn't finished changing. Lose more afterwards and the skin loosens again. Gain a lot and the long closure around your waist is put under strain it wasn't built for.

So we ask for six to twelve months at a genuinely steady weight before planning a body lift. That's longer than for smaller operations, and it's the single most common reason we suggest waiting.

Your blood results

It's common, after a sleeve or bypass, for at least one level to come back low. Iron and vitamin D are the usual ones; protein, zinc, folate and B12 aren't far behind. Healing a cut that runs right round your waist uses up every one of them. If the levels are low, the weakest point of the closure can open.

For that reason we ask for recent blood results before we confirm a date. If something is low, surgery waits until it has been corrected with your own doctor or bariatric team. It's frustrating to hear, but it's far better than a wound that breaks down after you've flown home.

How far round does it need to go?

This is the question that decides almost everything else. A body lift goes by other names too, including lower body lift and belt lipectomy. The incision is made along the beltline and carried round the whole body, ending where it began. Skin comes away from the abdomen, flanks, lower back and the top of the buttocks. As the edges are drawn up and closed, the buttocks and outer thighs rise with them.

Not everyone who asks for one needs it. Plenty of people find the term online and assume it's what they need, when their back and sides are actually fine and the problem stops at the front. In that case the right operation is a tummy tuck, which also repairs separated stomach muscles. It costs €4,000, against roughly €11,500 for the full set of components. Going round when you don't need to means a longer scar and a bigger bill for nothing.

We judge this from standing photos taken front-on, side-on and from the back, then confirm it when we examine you in Istanbul.

Is a body lift in Turkey right for you?

The people who do best have loose skin that genuinely wraps around the lower body, seen from the back and sides as well as the front. Their weight has held for six to twelve months, their blood results are normal, and they don't smoke.

A history of blood clots needs careful thought and sometimes rules the operation out. So does still being well above the weight you're aiming for, since much of the benefit is lost if the weight is still coming off. And everyone needs to be at peace with a long scar. If any of these don't fit yet, we'll tell you what would need to change first.

Men who have lost a lot of weight often carry loose skin all around the waist, especially at the flanks and lower back. The operation is the same, with the scar planned to sit under a normal waistband. Men's skin is often thicker and heavier, which can mean more tissue to remove.

Body lift cost in Turkey

There's no single body lift price on our list, because there's no single body lift. What we publish instead is the price of each part. On that list you'll find a full tummy tuck at €4,000, a back lift at €3,500 and a buttock lift at €4,000. If the lift continues onto the outer thighs, a thigh lift is €3,200. Bought one by one, they total €11,500, or €14,700 with the thighs. Planned as one operation they come to less. You'll see every part, and what it adds up to, in your written quote.

Included in that figure are the surgeons, the anaesthetist, your hospital nights and the compression garments. You also get airport transfers and an interpreter, plus check-ups for the first year. Your hotel is booked by us and shown as its own line.

The comparison table lists a circumferential body lift at €5,850 to €12,850 in Britain, between €5,200 and €12,000 in Germany, and anywhere from €10,700 to €40,550 in America, where surgeon, hospital and anaesthesia are often billed apart.

A few questions help. How far round does my incision need to go, and why? Which parts make up the price? What's my expected time in theatre? Who has the final say on doing it in one session? What do you do to prevent clots? And which blood tests do you need before you'll book someone after bariatric surgery? Detailed answers to all of those suggest a clinic that takes the operation seriously.

One operation or two

A body lift is long, and time under anaesthetic is the main limit on safety. Before a date is fixed, our anaesthetist reviews your general health, weight and any history of clots, and sets the maximum for one session. That decision is made independently of the surgeons, and it can't be overruled by them.

If the plan is too long for one go, it's split into two stages, usually a few months apart. You'd then make two trips. If we expect that from the start, both stages appear in your first quote.

The day of surgery

Because the cut circles the body, no single position gives the surgeon access to all of it. The front and sides come first, while you lie on your back. Partway through, the back still needs doing, so the team turns you over. You stay asleep for this. Several people do the lifting while the anaesthetist checks your breathing, drips and pressure points.

Calf pumps run for the whole operation. You wake up with compression garments on and small drains in place to stop fluid collecting under the skin. Expect to spend two nights on the ward.

Clots and wound healing

The risks are those of any body contouring operation, but bigger because the operation is bigger. Clots are the risk we worry about most. Long surgery, a few days of moving less and then a flight all push the odds up. So calf pumps run in theatre, you're walking on day one, your clotting history is checked in advance, and you don't fly until the surgeon and anaesthetist both agree.

Less serious but more common: a stretch of wound edge that's slow to heal, fluid building up under the skin, or one side ending up a little different from the other. Smoking makes wound problems far more likely along a closure this long. Stopping several weeks beforehand, and staying stopped until everything has closed, is a condition of booking.

Body lift recovery

This is the most demanding recovery of any operation in our body surgery range. Nurses check you daily, and you'll be up and walking from day one, slowly and slightly bent at first because the closure circles your body. The first week, simply getting up from bed is hard work. Sleeping with your knees supported helps.

Plan for at least eight nights in Istanbul, with your pre-flight check falling somewhere between day eight and day ten. Compression garments stay on for six to eight weeks. Office work is usually possible from week three or four. Strenuous exercise has to wait until week eight to ten. For the first fortnight at home, try to have someone around to help.

The scar

The scar runs around your body at the beltline. It's the longest of any operation we offer. We place it low, so that ordinary underwear and most swimwear cover it. Early on it's red and firm. By twelve to eighteen months it has gone flat and pale. Permanent, though. Make your peace with that before you book.

Body lift before and after photos

Front-only photos tell you very little about a body lift. The side and back views matter more, because that's where most of the work happens and where a lopsided buttock lift would give itself away. In a useful before and after set, the patient stands the same way in the same light, and the scar is visible in at least one shot.

Check the dates too. Pictures taken in the first few months still show swelling. Body lift results are easier to judge at a year, and reviews from patients at that stage are the most useful.

Body lift results

Removed skin doesn't grow back. Done for the right reasons, a body lift deals with the loose skin around the lower body for good, and the new contour has usually settled at three to four months. Clothes fit differently, skin no longer folds or rubs, and many people say it's the first time their body has matched the weight they worked so hard to lose. What keeps the result is a stable weight.

Other areas after weight loss

A body lift deals with the lower trunk. Arms, inner thighs and the chest often need attention too. An arm lift or inner thigh lift is normally done as its own stage, a few months later, once the first operation has healed. We can sketch the whole sequence in your first plan, even when it spans several trips. For many people, a body lift in Turkey is the first of those stages.