Everyone’s talking about Ozempic face. Plastic surgeons say that’s the easy part. The real fallout from GLP-1 weight loss is showing up everywhere else: loose skin on the arms, abdomen, thighs and buttocks, depleted muscle mass, collagen loss, even hair thinning. “We’re being overwhelmed by all the fallout from the GLP-1 patients,” says Newton Centre, MA plastic surgeon Joseph A. Russo, MD. “People have just lost so much weight. They’ve got so much extra skin.”
The good news is that surgery isn’t the only answer, and for patients who get ahead of it, it may not be necessary at all. In this episode of The Beauty Authority, Dr. Russo breaks down the regenerative treatments and body-focused technologies he’s using right now to help patients preserve muscle, rebuild volume and tighten skin before things go too far. He also gets into why longevity medicine and aesthetic medicine are finally merging, and why he thinks the era of obvious filler is almost over.
