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The Scar Hides in the Crease. It Also Moves.
A thigh lift removes loose thigh skin and closes the line in the groin crease, where underwear covers it. That concealment is real. So is the fact that this scar widens and drifts downward over the first year.
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Loose thigh skin is removed and the closure placed in the groin crease, where the fold and ordinary underwear cover it. That concealment is a genuine advantage over an arm lift. What follows it is the part usually left unsaid: this scar widens, and over a year it tends to drift downward out of the crease.
€3,200, all four techniques
For inner-thigh laxity the incision follows the groin crease and a crescent of skin is removed above it. What decides how this ages is anchoring: the deep layer is fixed to the fascia at the groin so the closure does not hang its weight on the skin edge. Done without that, the scar drags downward faster and wider.
Inner-thigh skin that stays put when pinched, assessed standing, because a couch flatters the thigh.
One night in hospital, six nights in Istanbul. Short careful walking from day one; the scar settles across a year.
Plastic Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery
Dr Emre G. qualified in medicine at Uludağ University in 2007 and completed his specialist training in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery at Bezmialem Vakıf University between 2008 and 2014, with a research post at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He has worked in both public hospitals and private practice, and the reconstructive half of that training shows in how he plans an aesthetic case. He practises at Natural Clinic in Istanbul.
Education
Yes, and what to verify has nothing to do with geography. Two questions do the work: how do you anchor the closure so the scar does not drift, and how do you protect lymphatic drainage across the groin?
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Istanbul's bariatric caseload means the judgement here — whether a crease incision reaches the whole problem — is made weekly, not twice a year.
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Your plan names whether the laxity is inner or outer, where the line runs, and how far the scar is expected to travel — before you fly.
Lower operating costs and the exchange rate produce a real difference, with no shortened stay and no assumed finding behind it.
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Istanbul connects directly to hundreds of cities. Six nights here, one in hospital, and nobody flies until the surgeon clears it — leg surgery plus a long flight is the combination that matters.
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Every appointment is coordinated in English, with Dutch on request, and your interpreter is free from consultation to discharge.
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Ministry of Health licence, board registration, logged sterilisation cycles and an independent anaesthesia review — all documented before you travel.
A €3,200 thigh lift often does more — and costs less — than €4,300 of thigh liposuction.
If pinched inner-thigh skin doesn't spring back, removing fat alone would leave it looser.
Wherever possible the line follows the crease where the thigh meets the body.
Careful closure reduces the chance of the scar spreading or dragging.
Keeping this area dry and clean is the main defence against wound problems.
Splits, deep squats and straddling a bike seat pull on the groin incision, so they wait for clearance.
When inner-thigh skin won't recoil, a thigh lift does what liposuction can't.
A thigh lift removes excess, sagging skin and some fat from the thighs, most commonly the inner thighs, to create a firmer and smoother contour. It is used when skin has lost its elasticity, often after significant weight loss, and liposuction alone would not produce a satisfying result.
Thigh lifts are most often requested by people whose inner thighs rub together, chafe during walking or make clothes fit poorly because the skin hangs after weight loss or with age. You should be at a steady weight and comfortable with a scar in the groin crease, which may extend down the inner thigh.
Thigh liposuction removes fat but relies on the skin contracting afterwards. A thigh lift removes the excess skin itself, so it is the better option when inner-thigh skin is loose. Some patients benefit from a combination of both procedures. Your surgeon decides which approach suits your thighs after examining them.
The first link is the operation we send people to when the pinch test says the skin still works — and which, on the thigh, usually costs more. The next two are what a thigh lift is most often combined with after a large weight loss, the lateral technique frequently continuous with the body lift.
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Send one photograph standing front on and one from behind — standing, because lying down makes loose thigh skin disappear. A body surgeon replies with the pinch-test finding, whether the laxity is inner or outer, which incision that calls for, how far the scar is expected to move, and a fixed price. If the honest answer is liposuction, the plan says so, even though that is the dearer route here. No obligation, no pressure, no cost.
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