Talk:Body contouring

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A fact from Body contouring appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 May 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that plastic surgeons use body shaping to remove large amounts of hanging skin from the bodies of men and women who have lost as much as 45 to 136 kg (100 to 300 pounds)?

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before and after photos[edit]

I know several surgeons -- with whom I have no connection -- who would be willing to sign over an excellent before-and-after picture of a body shaping patient if they could have a photo credit that links back to their website. What is the policy on that?Charles.Downey 20:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As long as they are happy to freely and completely release the image for any use (not just Wikipedia's), yes, that's fine - Wikipedia's GFDL requirement provides for this, an ensures that attribution is retained (although not rights). Proto 10:33, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If one picture is worth 1,000 words.....etc. etc. etc. copyright released picture coming. 72.87.184.200 02:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What about natural skin regeneration?[edit]

Some people claim that unnatural methods of losing weight cause abnormal body fat/lean mass composition. They say that a person who loses additional fat rather than lean muscle mass such that they get to low body fat percentages would lose the excess skin. Is this possible, has it been studied (obviously there is less ability to make money from people naturally regenerating then making them believe they have to have even more surgery), and if so why is there no section on alternatives? 69.252.158.32 00:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since I know of no link between loss of fat or muscle and loss of skin, and since I know of no reason why skin would react differently to loss of muscle rather than fat as long as the human in question were losing the same volume of body matter, I call utter and total horsecrap until someone cites some credible evidence. If I lose 90 CCs of body volume, I expect there to be 90 CCs of space lost and deflated as far as my skin is concerned. Whether the lost volume comes from fat or muscle makes no difference, and it is ridiculous to claim otherwise. Succubus MacAstaroth (talk) 12:46, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopedia writing as message board argument[edit]

The first sentence of this article is "Body contouring is a general term that refers to any surgical procedure that alters different areas of the body, whether it is in a massive weight loss patient or not." I just thought I should point that out. MrBook (talk) 06:15, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possible references added[edit]

I added three recent (2014) journal articles to the further reading section that could be used as references to improve the article. - - MrBill3 (talk) 19:13, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced, promotional, misleading article[edit]

This page is a mess for the reasons I just listed. I suggest removing the unsourced material and adding a few references. I will be doing that as I have time. Juliet Sabine (talk) 04:03, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]