• If you re a woman who s struggling to achieve or reclaim your ideal body shape.


• Or a man who would love to get rid of those love handles.

Then you need to listen to today s episode where Dr. Dennis Hurwitz of the Hurwitz Center for Plastic Surgery in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is going to share his breakthrough alternative to traditional tummy tucks and lower body lifts

• That delivers better results.


• With less discomfort.


• And shorter recovery periods.

In this episode you’re going to discover:

• What Oblique Flankplasty is.


• Who it s for.


• Why it s an absolute game changer when versus tummy tucks and lower body lifts.


• How it helps women achieve a slimmer waist.


• How it helps men eliminate love handles.


• The critical role of your plastic surgeon.


• How to reduce the risk of complications.


• How to achieve amazing results.


• How to reduce scarring.


• How to minimize discomfort.


• How to have a shorter recovery period.


• Where other surgeons can learn about the Oblique Flankplasty best practices.


• Where you can compare the types of results you can achieve.


• Where you can learn more.

Transcript

How To Reduce Belly Fat with Oblique Flankplasty (for better results, less discomfort and shorter recovery periods)

Frank Felker: If you’re a woman who’s struggling to achieve or reclaim your ideal body shape, or a man who would love to get rid of those love handles, then you need to listen to today’s episode, where Dr. Dennis Hurwitz of the Hurwitz Center for Plastic Surgery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is going to share his breakthrough alternative to traditional tummy tucks and lower body lifts that delivers better results with less discomfort and shorter recovery periods. Welcome to the HD Lipo Podcast, introduction to oblique flankplasty.

Welcome back to the HD Lipo Podcast. I’m Frank Felker in Washington DC. My guest today is board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Dennis Hurwitz of the Hurwitz Center for Plastic Surgery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Dennis Hurwitz, welcome to the program.

Dr. Hurwitz: Nice to be here, Frank. Thanks.

Frank Felker: Today we’re going to be talking about a new cosmetic surgery procedure, which Dr. Hurwitz has pioneered, called oblique flankplasty. As regular listeners know, I always try to make sure that all medical terminology is broken down into layman’s terms. So Dr. Hurwitz, can we please start with the definition of those two words, oblique and flankplasty?

Dr. Hurwitz: Oblique relates to the orientation of the removal of the excess skin and fat that lies in the mid torso, the mid part of your body. Instead of going transverse, or vertical, up, or down, actually there’s obliquity to it. This allows me to safely and rather cosmetically remove that excess tissue. And where I remove it is in the flank. And the flank is that area between the lower ribcage and your pelvic rim, the waist up there, the hip. So the flank, that’s where it is. It’s from the back side and side, it’s that distance between the ribcage and your pelvis. And it contributes to the overall features of your waist. So the waist, that midsection of either a man or a woman that’s the most narrow place, and of course, the women quite narrow because of how they’re built. And in men, not too large. And so in either case, the oblique flankplasty contributes along with a tummy tuck, an abdominoplasty, to the narrowest waist, never before possible in any plastic surgeon’s experience.

Frank Felker: I want to make sure I understand. You were saying it’s not transverse. It’s not up and down. Would you say, then, it’s more right to left, or side to side? And you’re talking about the sides of a person’s body as opposed to, let’s say, the front or the back where you mentioned a tummy tuck.

Dr. Hurwitz: Well, most people sort of know where their kidneys are, towards in their flanks in the back area, but not quite to the spine. Well this, if you look, if you think about the top of your hips from the sides, and then run this obliquely, not straight up and not straight across, but a 45 degree angle towards the ribcage at the spine, that’s what the obliquely removal we call [inaudible 00:03:16 ].

Frank Felker: I see.

Dr. Hurwitz: And I call it oblique flankplasty because it takes a plastic surgeon to manipulate every aspect, the decisions of how to do it, how much to take away, how you do it safely and cosmetically to get the least problems, complications, and the best result.

Frank Felker: And so as I saw it in my mind’s eye as you were just describing it, the oblique, it’s the angle that you’re looking to achieve between, let’s say, the waist and the upper body, further upper body.

Dr. Hurwitz: And I make the distinguishment, not only to properly name it, but to let other plastic surgeons who I’m now teaching this technique to, that it’s not what’s been out there transverse, or horizontal, or vertical. They’re familiar with that. But it’s uniquely different that one or the other, giving it the best possible scar.

Frank Felker: Interesting. Okay. We will get to your position as an educator in the medical industry. But first I wanted to talk about your development of this new procedure. What sort of problems does it solve for the patient? In other words, what did they walk in with? And what sort of results are you able to achieve for them going forward?

Dr. Hurwitz: Well Frank, you really hit the nail on the head. New techniques or technology are out there because what we’ve done in the past didn’t solve a problem, or had many other problems with it. So this was born out of frustration of not doing as good a job on the female or even male form as possible. And the indications are, in a man, you know these big love handles. Men get this all the time, particularly if they’ve lost a lot of weight. The last thing to go is these tire like love handles. And surgery has not been very effective in dealing with it, plastic surgery.

In women, they don’t have such bulges, but they don’t have any nice form. They’re straight. They’d like to have that hourglass appearance, where the upper segment of the body and the lower segment is separated by a graceful narrowing. And that’s the idea. I think plastic surgeons, because they haven’t had a good tool to deal with this in the older patient and the weight loss patient, they’ve kind of given up on the idea of maybe trying.

Frank Felker: Interesting. Well, I hadn’t expected you to say that, that it actually had kind of gotten to the point where they’re like, “Well, what’s the use? I can’t. I don’t know what to do.” What I was going to ask you was-

Dr. Hurwitz: That’s exactly right.

Frank Felker: Yeah. Well, I guess that kind of answers my question. But I’ll go ahead and ask it anyway and maybe you can fill in a few more blanks for us. What I was going to is, as with any creative innovation, it’s generally in response to a problem, which is not being solved, just as you described right there. And yet, there were, shall we say, more traditional approaches to attempt to solve it that were not as effective as what you’ve been able to come up with. So if you could, if you would speak to how the idea came to you, when the time period of which this developed in your mind. And maybe not precisely, because we don’t need to get into all the exact medical technology and terminology. But what is it that you do that is so different? So how did this first occur to you, at what period of time? And how did it evolve in your mind?

Dr. Hurwitz: Well, I thought this out as I put my results in perspective. About 10 years ago, I realized, as did other plastic surgeons, that the low body lift did not adequately deal, even if you used high definition liposuction, with the flanks, the bulges of the waist above it. It was just ineffective. And a more direct approach would be a good idea. And I came across just a little higher, and once the scar got out of the underwear line, it became clear to me. I should just go and follow the whole bulge and get rid of all of it.

And so in men, it was sort of a no brainer. And a few other plastic surgeons have been doing things like this. But interestingly enough, I took the traditional approach of a lower body lift and liposuction about four years ago in a woman, a beautiful woman I might add, who’d lost a lot of weight. And she was disgruntled that she had loose wavy skin in her flank, and it was really not much better even though I had used sophisticated ultrasound vaser lipo. The problem was, the tissues were already too loose to start with, and taking fat out only aggravated the looseness. So we agreed, let’s try something different like I had done in men before. Take a direct shot and get ri