Body Contouring After Weight Loss in Sydney, Penrith & Orange
Comprehensive Care from a Dedicated Team
Dr Rohit Kumar
(MBBS MMEDSCI FRACS) Specialist Plastic Surgeon
Dr Kumar’s Team
Continuity of Care from Consultation to Recovery
Body contouring after significant weight loss is not one operation. It is a staged course of surgery, and the team around it matters as much as the technique.
The same nurses, in the rooms and on the ward
Dr Kumar’s nurses don’t only work in his rooms. They also work on the wards at Westmead Private Hospital, where he operates. The nurse who takes your first phone call and measures you for your compression garments may well be the nurse caring for you on the ward the night after your surgery, and will be one of the nurses reviewing your wounds as you heal. There is a good chance of a familiar face during your hospital stay — and the nurses who prepare you for surgery are the same ones who look after you at every review afterwards.
Preparing you for surgery: prehabilitation
Before surgery, Dr Kumar’s team will offer to refer you to his Accredited Practising Dietitian. Not every patient needs it — some already work with a dietitian or remain under a bariatric team — but the aim is to have as many patients as possible properly prepared. This matters more after significant weight loss than most people expect: bariatric surgery changes how you absorb protein, iron and vitamin B12, and those are what wound healing draws on. The same dietetic support continues after your operation, through the months when your body is repairing.
Measuring what the scales cannot
After major weight loss, your weight on its own tells us very little. Where it is useful, Dr Kumar arranges a DEXA scan — a body composition scan that separates fat mass from lean muscle. He uses it to inform how much can sensibly be done in one operation, how your procedures are staged, and how long to leave between stages.
Aftercare, for twelve months
Your aftercare is planned and costed before you commit to surgery, not worked out as you go. Dressings and compression garments are supplied and managed by the same nursing team, wound and scar care follows a set protocol rather than being left to chance, and Dr Kumar reviews his surgical patients for twelve months after surgery. Scars continue to remodel well beyond the first few months, and questions about refinement or revision are usually better answered late in that first year than early.
Procedures – Sydney, Penrith & Orange
After Weight Loss
- Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty)
- Body Lift (Belt Lipectomy)
- Arm Lift (Brachioplasty)
- Breast Lift with Fat Grafting
- Male Chest Contouring After Weight Loss
- Loose Skin After Weight-Loss Medication
Dr Rohit Kumar
MBBS, MMedSci (Burns), FRACS (Plas) — Specialist Plastic Surgeon (MED0001630444)
Dr Rohit Kumar is a Board Certified, Australian-trained specialist plastic surgeon with over 15 years of experience. He has built his practice around body contouring after major weight loss — abdominoplasty, body lift, arm lift, thigh lift, breast lift and male chest contouring — alongside breast reduction, breast lift and augmentation, and post-pregnancy body surgery.
Surgery after significant weight loss is often staged rather than singular. Dr Kumar likes to plan it that way: DEXA body composition scanning where it helps, dietitian-supported preparation before surgery, and twelve months of reviews afterwards, all contribute to a comprehensive and supported journey for all his patients.
He trained at the University of Queensland, holds a Master of Medical Science in Burns Surgery and was awarded his FRACS in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is a Visiting Medical Officer at Westmead Private Hospital, where he is involved in the training of registrars and fellows in all aspects of plastic surgery and especially post-weight-loss techniques.
Dr Kumar consults in Sydney, Penrith and Orange, and operates at Somerset Private Hospital and Westmead Private Hospital.
“Great plastic surgery does not create beauty — it merely moulds features to display the beauty that was always present.”
— Dr Rohit Kumar
“Great plastic surgery does not create beauty — it merely moulds features to display the beauty that was always present.”
— Dr Rohit Kumar
What It Costs and How to Start
Consultation
$400
Medicare rebate of approximately $84, where you meet the criteria.
- GP referral required
- Quoted individually — no package price
- Twelve months of aftercare, costed upfront
Consultations in Sydney, Penrith and Orange
Body contouring after significant weight loss is staged, so there is no package price. You receive a written quote covering the operation and twelve months of aftercare before you commit.
Some procedures attract a Medicare item number where specific clinical criteria are met. See the costs page for those criteria.
Your Pathway, From Referral to Twelve Months
Body contouring after significant weight loss is usually a staged procedure rather than a single operation.
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Referral and first consultation
You will need a referral, preferably from your usual GP. Your first consultation is by phone with Dr Kumar’s practice nurse, who takes a full history, sends you a checklist of records and results to bring — bariatric operation report, recent bloods, any imaging — and arranges anything that needs to be in place before you see Dr Kumar.
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Consultation with Dr Kumar
About ninety minutes, in person. Dr Kumar examines you, explains which procedures are clinically appropriate and in what order, and sets out the risks and what recovery involves. Clinical photographs and garment measurements are usually taken at this visit. You then meet the practice manager for an interim quote, while health fund and hospital figures are confirmed.
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Assessment and preparation
Rapid weight loss, whether after bariatric surgery or on weight-loss medication, can leave you short of the protein, iron and vitamin B12 that wound healing draws on. Dr Kumar’s team will offer a referral to his Accredited Practising Dietitian, and arranges a DEXA body composition scan where it will inform how much is sensibly done in one operation. Your quote is finalised here and itemised in full: surgeon, anaesthetist, surgical assistant, hospital, garments and twelve months of aftercare.
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Cooling-off and third consultation
At least seven days pass before you are asked to commit to anything. You then see Dr Kumar a third time, to work through whatever has come up since — the questions you thought of on the drive home, or the ones your family asked. Consent is signed and surgery booked only once you are satisfied.
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Surgery and twelve months of review
Your surgery is performed at Westmead Private Hospital, with larger procedures involving a one to four day stay. Routine reviews follow at one week, six weeks, twelve weeks, six months and twelve months, and more often where dressings or drains need attention. The nurses who prepare you for surgery are the same ones at every review.
All surgery carries risk. Read about the risks and considerations before your consultation. Individual results vary.
Our Patient Results
Dr Kumar consults in Sydney, Penrith and Orange, and operates at Westmead Private Hospital and Somerset Specialist Centre, Penrith.
No two patients arrive at surgery the same way, particularly after major weight loss. Each plan is built around your anatomy, your goals and the order in which procedures make sense for you.
The gallery shows Dr Kumar’s own patients, photographed before and after surgery. Individual results vary.
