Dr. Loren Borud specializes in Body Contouring
Dr. Loren Borud was born in Minot, North Dakota. He became interested in medicine after finishing high school and he took up two majors in college and graduated with a diploma for Physics and Human Biology. After that he proceeded for his MD at Harvard Medical School. He later on went to UCLA for his residency and did some research for plastic surgery. It was during the 90’s at his stint in Los Angeles where he was a resident for general surgery that he had his first experience assisting on bariatric surgery. That time this type of surgery was only done on patients that are severely morbidly obese because it could lead to several complications then. The doctors had to weigh the benefits and the consequences of the procedure and that time the use of anesthesia was also considered dangerous once done during this type of procedure.
Now, Dr. Loren Borud sees the difference of the procedure done then and how it’s done now. That is because of the continued advances both in the techniques for surgery and also in anesthesia that made it possible for bariatric surgery to be a common procedure done on patients with weight difficulties. In 2003 alone, there had been 100,000 cases of bariatric surgery in the United States and more are done in other countries. For Dr. Borud he specializes in body contouring which is a post bariatric surgery procedure.
Dr. Loren Borud wants to emphasize that the body contouring procedure is done months after the patient had bariatric surgery. The patient will have a drastic weight loss due to the surgery that makes their stomach capacity smaller and this result to excess and saggy skin. Your body cannot tone down the skin as fast as the weight loss and the shrunken body will still have the same amount of skin of the overweight one. This is a problem and can cause embarrassment to patients but because of body contouring, the excess skin are removed to reveal the younger looking and firm skin and the patient lose more weight from the weight of the skin removed.
Since you end up with excess skin from drastic weight loss, it is advised that you don’t get very excited to get it done fast. Your body needs to be in plateau of weight loss before it’s advised to do the body contouring so you won’t need to get it done again. In the 100,000 cases of bariatric surgery in 2003, 52,000 had undergone the body contouring procedure.