Surgical Body Contouring

Park Plaza Plastic Surgery offers comprehensive surgical body contouring on Manhattan's Upper East Side, combining techniques such as liposuction, thigh lift, arm lift, and mommy makeover into personalised treatment plans tailored to each patient's anatomy and goals. Dr. George Lefkovits, board-certified in plastic surgery with 40+ years of experience, addresses areas including the abdomen, hips, thighs, buttocks, arms, back, chest, and neck. Surgical body contouring is suited to patients with stable weight who have localised fat or excess skin that diet and exercise cannot resolve. Recovery typically allows light activities within one to two weeks.

Park Plaza Plastic Surgery provides a full spectrum of surgical body contouring procedures at its Upper East Side Manhattan practice, led by Dr. George Lefkovits MD — a physician with dual board certifications in plastic surgery and otolaryngology and over 35,000 surgical procedures in his career. Surgical body contouring encompasses any procedure aimed at reshaping the body's silhouette by removing excess fat, excising redundant skin, tightening underlying musculature, or repositioning tissue for a more aesthetic contour. At Park Plaza, this includes traditional and advanced liposuction across multiple anatomical zones, abdominoplasty in full and mini variants, thigh lifts, arm lifts, and comprehensive combination approaches such as the mommy makeover — a personalised pairing of breast and body procedures addressing the postpartum changes many patients seek to correct after pregnancy and breastfeeding. Additional offerings include abdominal etching, a refinement technique that uses precision liposuction to accentuate natural muscle definition beneath the skin, and the Brazilian butt lift, which transfers harvested fat to the gluteal region for volumetric enhancement. Treatment plans at Park Plaza Plastic Surgery are built around each patient's individual anatomy, skin quality, and aesthetic objectives. Dr. Lefkovits performs a thorough pre-operative assessment to identify optimal candidate areas, select the most appropriate technique combination, and plan anaesthesia — which may be local, conscious sedation, or general depending on the extent and combination of procedures. Recovery from surgical body contouring varies by procedure scope: isolated single-area procedures typically allow a return to light desk work within one to two weeks, with compression garment wear required throughout the early healing phase. More extensive multi-area or combination procedures carry longer recovery timelines and activity restrictions on strenuous exercise for four to six weeks. Dr. Lefkovits offers free in-person and virtual consultations — available via FaceTime, Zoom, and WhatsApp — to allow prospective patients to discuss goals, review before-and-after imagery, and receive a personalised surgical recommendation before committing to a procedure. Payment plans through ALPHAEON Credit, United Medical Credit, and CareCredit are available to spread the cost of surgical procedures.