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Do you have to get surgery to have excess skin removed after losing a lot of weight?

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Extra skin/wt loss: Yes if you loose lot of weight you are left with redundant skin which is hanging and can only be removed by surgery if you you dont like it.

Dr Lee agreed

Answered 4/26/2017

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