Welcome! We invite you to experience the Forest Health Medical Center difference!
FHMC is different from either a general medical hospital or a large university medical center. We provide you with specialty surgery and personal care by the best specialty surgeons and staff.
Just like the major medical centers we have the latest modern equipment and facilities, but that is not what makes us different. The personal care you will receive is unlike the typical impersonal healthcare offered in most large university medical centers. At FHMC we are committed to caring for you as our family.
Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery
Arm Lift/Brachioplasty
Weight loss in the arms will thin the fat layer below the skin and allow gravity to pull the skin downward. This creates a vertical looseness on the underside, or triceps muscle side, of the upper arm. Brachioplasty (arm lift) involves removal of this skin from the inner surface of the arm in a long tapered spindle pattern. The incision closure falls on the inside of the arm in the groove between the biceps and triceps muscles. A drain is placed under the skin, entering near the armpit. Compression garments are utilized to smooth the skin and provide pressure around the area to lessen swelling. Surgery is usually done as an outpatient procedure (unless other procedures are done at the same time).