GMommy Upper Body Lift

Skin Rolls Over Fixed Attachments

The GMommy bra lift was developed to address moderate to severe skin redundancy and fullness in the upper and middle back. The sign of that redundancy is the appearance of one, two, or three bra rolls. A bra roll is a skin roll of the upper and middle back. It forms after prolonged exposure to gravity. The extra skin does not hang as one even sheet. It rolls over the zones where the skin is intimately attached to the underlying muscle.

Those attachments are cutaneous retaining ligaments. They act like structural support cables. A retaining ligament is a tight attachment of the skin to the muscle beneath it. The ligament does not lengthen simply because the surrounding skin has become redundant. When that extra skin meets a line that stays fixed, the spare length piles on the near side of the attachment. The pile is the roll. One line of adherence can produce one roll. A second line and a third line can produce a second roll and a third roll. The number seen on the back is the number of fixed zones the extra skin has to cross.

Fullness in the same upper and middle back is the bulk that can sit with those rolls. Bulk and fold are not the same finding. Bulk is volume in the soft tissue. The roll is redundant skin folding over a ligament that will not let the skin slide. Both findings belong to the problem this excision is built to treat. Removing the bulk and leaving the extra skin leaves the fold in place, because the skin still has length to spare and the ligament is still there to catch it.

Liposuction and Renuvion Before a Roll Has Formed

Traditionally, plastic surgeons have used liposuction and Renuvion J plasma skin tightening to improve the contour of the upper and middle back. That approach is successful when skin redundancy is minimal to moderate. It is less effective once actual bra rolls have formed. The dividing line is whether the skin is only mildly loose, or whether it has already folded over the retaining ligaments into a roll that can be counted on the exam.

Eliminating formed rolls requires optimal excision of the skin. Simply removing the fat leaves redundant skin. The skin that remains still has spare length, and spare length still piles over the ligaments. Renuvion J plasma skin tightening is efficient for minimal to moderate redundancy. It cannot tighten moderate to severe redundant skin. The limit is the amount of extra skin. It is not a question of whether the energy can be aimed at the back. Once the skin has rolled, shortening collagen in what remains does not take away the length that created the fold.

When redundancy is still minimal to moderate, liposuction remains the contouring step named for that back. The offices where that liposuction is offered are listed with the liposuction locations. Once bra rolls have formed, that step is no longer the treatment that removes them. Fat can be reduced and the roll can still be there, because the roll is skin draped over a fixed attachment, not a pocket of fat sitting on a smooth back.

How the GMommy Upper Body Lift Removes the Rolls

The GMommy upper body lift eliminates upper and middle back fullness and any number of bra rolls. Excision removes the extra skin, so the fold no longer has spare length to pile over the ligaments. The design follows the natural bra line. Because the closure follows that line, it is hidden under undergarments and under a bikini top. The scar is planned where those garments already sit, rather than left as a line that clothing cannot cover.

The GMommy upper body lift can definitively eliminate all of the bra rolls. The contour it is meant to leave is a wrinkle free, smooth upper and middle back. Definitive, in this description, means the extra skin is taken away. The result does not depend on moderate to severe skin shrinking back across a ligament it has already rolled over. One roll, two rolls, or three rolls are treated by the same idea: take the redundant skin that is folding, and close along the bra line.

A Breast Lift Extension or an Armpit Tuck

The surgeon can design this excision line as an extension of a breast lift or an armpit tuck. When the line continues from a breast lift, the back closure and the breast closure are drawn as one incision, and the portion on the back still sits where a bra or a bikini top covers it. The breast procedure does not, by itself, remove a bra roll. It offers a continuous incision when both are planned together. The back problem remains the rolls and the fullness of the upper and middle back.

An armpit tuck, as named here, is that same bra-line excision carried toward the armpit. It is part of the design of this back excision. It is not a separate operation for the arm, and it does not replace removal of the rolls on the upper and middle back. The direction of the line can change, toward the breast or toward the armpit, while the tissue being removed stays the redundant skin that formed the rolls.

What the Back View Photographs Record

The photographs show a 70-year-old woman who underwent an upper body lift as well as a Brazilian buttock lift, seen from the back. The caption records both operations. The buttock procedure is not the method that removes bra rolls. The rolls are removed by the bra-line excision. The graft is a separate operation, and it is not turned here into a combined plan for the back. Readers who want that graft described on its own can read it as its own procedure.

The Aesthetic Society describes an upper body lift as a procedure that may include a back lift. The GMommy upper body lift is the bra-line excision used here for that moderate to severe redundancy. It is narrower than the broad category. It addresses fullness of the upper and middle back and bra rolls numbering one, two, or three. Waiting periods, weight-stability rules, and pregnancy timing are not part of this description.

Recovery of the Bra-Line Incision

Recovery is the healing of the bra-line incision after the extra skin has been removed. No week count, garment calendar, or activity date is given for this operation. What is stated is the placement of the line and the contour that excision produces. The closure is planned so that undergarments and a bikini top cover it. The change in the upper and middle back is the absence of the rolls, not a later energy treatment asked to shrink skin that excision was chosen to remove.

A Renuvion treatment is not the recovery step for moderate to severe rolls. That energy cannot tighten redundant skin once the redundancy is moderate to severe. Recovery here is healing of the incision after the skin that formed the rolls has been excised. This bra-line excision is one operation among the procedures gathered as the GMommy makeover. The field of this operation is the upper and middle back. The makeover name does not change the indication. Formed bra rolls still call for excision along the bra line.