As patients rush to lose pounds via injectable drugs, L.A. doctors are addressing problems like loose skin and lack of volume with fillers, fat transfers and energy treatments: “If you lose a lot of weight quickly, everything is deflated.”
“Everybody looks so great. When I look around this room, I can’t help but wonder, ‘Is Ozempic right for me?’ ” joked Jimmy Kimmel while hosting the 95th Academy Awards. Of course, Kimmel was referencing Hollywood’s sweeping off-label use of the injectable diabetes drug — as well as similar drugs Mounjaro and Wegovy — to rapidly shed pounds by suppressing appetite and slowing digestion.
to describe the gaunt look resulting from sudden volume loss, which some plastic surgeons are combatting with fat transfers . And now doctors are seeing “Ozempic body,” where quick weight loss results in head-to-toe laxity of skin.
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