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Conveniently located to serve the areas of Tampa and Lakeland, FL
Body contouring involves reshaping and enhancing appearance through various surgical techniques. Dr. Jacob Gerzenshtein, a highly regarded Lakeland and Tampa plastic surgeon, has devoted his career to helping patients across Central Florida achieve their aesthetic goals. Factors like multiple pregnancies, significant weight loss, and aging often lead to excess skin and diminished firmness in the trunk and extremities. These changes frequently involve not just the skin but also the underlying connective tissues, which require tightening and repair.
For example, in a full abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), the abdominal muscles and overlying fascia are tightened to improve firmness. However, enhancing one area can sometimes highlight aesthetic concerns in adjacent regions, like extra fat in the waist or love handles. Depending on the patient’s goals and the extent of the work needed, these areas may be addressed in a single procedure or over multiple sessions.
Dr. Gerzenshtein and his team specialize in abdominoplasty, arm and leg lifts, and liposuction. These procedures can be performed individually or in combination, with options for general or local anesthesia and comfortable overnight stays. Dr. Gerzenshtein approaches body contouring as an art, delivering results that sculpt and enhance each patient’s natural shape.
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Key Procedures Offered:
- Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty): A tummy tuck removes excess skin and fat from the abdomen while tightening the abdominal muscles. While it can dramatically improve the appearance of a protruding abdomen, the procedure does result in a permanent scar that may extend from hip to hip, depending on the extent of correction.
- Arm & Leg Lifts and Liposuction: These procedures target stubborn fat and excess skin, restoring firmness and balance to the body’s overall appearance.
- Liposuction: A specialized technique to remove localized fat deposits from areas like the abdomen, thighs, arms, or back, creating a slimmer, more contoured silhouette.
- Male Plastic Surgery: Offers procedures tailored for men, including gynecomastia correction (male breast reduction), body contouring, and abdominal etching to enhance masculine features and improve confidence.
- Massive Weight Loss Surgery: Focused on removing excess skin and tightening tissues after significant weight loss to improve body proportions, functionality, and comfort.
- Mommy Makeover: A customized combination of procedures, including tummy tuck, breast lift, and liposuction, designed to restore a mother’s pre-pregnancy body shape and confidence.
What to Expect:
If you’re considering abdominoplasty or any other body contouring procedure, it’s essential to understand how they work, their potential results, and any associated risks. Dr. Gerzenshtein encourages patients to ask questions and discuss their goals to ensure personalized, satisfying outcomes.
Before and after photos available below illustrate the transformative results that body contouring can achieve.
FAQ
Do you NEED a surgeon board certified by the ABFPRS?
Do you NEED a surgeon board certified by the ABFPRS, or the ABCS, or the XYZ?
The American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) IS THE ONLY BOARD specialty recognized by the American Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). This is the regulatory body overseeing resident education in ALL medical specialties including internal medicine, general surgery, etc. Any board which is not recognized by this entity is not subjected to its rules and regulations.
The ACGME therefore does not recognize anyone trained in any program recognized by such an ARBITRARILY defined board. The truth of the matter is that if anyone wanted to set up the American Board of Facial Upper Outer Eyelid Lash Surgeons, they could do so without any problems. Surprisingly, without even so much as a medical degree.
To the general public it would seem as though anyone trained in a “program” recognized by such a “board” has special training in the upper out part of the eyelid. And the upper outer eyelid surgeon would bask and revel in the fruits of this flagrant lie. The truth is that ACGME plastic surgery training takes from 6 to 8 years. And encompasses all of plastic surgery, in its every detail.
Unregulated Specialization Claims: The Truth About Surgeons and Plastic Surgery Training
Surgeons not trained in such a manner typically have one year of so called “plastic” surgery and think themselves expert. Because they claim to be specialists in a particular area, implications can be made. Such is that they underwent plastic surgery training followed by specialty training. This is another blatant lie. Of course the public is unaware of any of this because the industry is only regulated on the postoperative lawsuit end.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a few cosmetic surgeons, who are not plastic surgeons, who are quite good. There are exceptions to every rule. There is also a fair amount of ASPS surgeons who are quite bad, again not the rule. But to say that one NEEDS a surgeon who has this board certification not recognized by the ACGME is a preposterous flagrant lie.
Ethical Character of the Surgeon
Another important consideration that is often ignored is the ethical character of the “surgeon.” Let’s suppose someone is not certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Let’s also suppose that they are really good with their hands, and have done many, many aesthetic procedures. How many people would have had to be their “first,” in any given procedure before they accumulated enough experience to obtain good, reproducible results? Would you really want a “physician” of such limited moral fiber to do your surgery ?
The bottom line is this; what you need is an honest physician, who is safe, gets good results, and is strongly endorsed by his or her patients, not the founder of the American Board of the Middle Upper Lip Cosmetico – Aesthetic Surgery.
