Body Contouring After Weight Loss in Sydney, Penrith & Orange
Comprehensive Care from a Dedicated Team
Dr Rohit Kumar
Specialist Plastic Surgeon FRACS ANZBCPS Board Certified 20+ years Westmead Private
or call 1300 267 726
Dr Kumar’s Team
Continuity of Care from Consultation to Recovery
Body contouring after significant weight loss is usually staged, and the team around it matters as much as the technique.
The nurses who prepare you are the nurses who review you
Dr Kumar’s nurses work in his rooms and on the wards at Westmead Private Hospital, where he operates. The nurses who prepare you for surgery are the same ones who see you at every review afterwards, and there is a good chance of a familiar face during your hospital stay.
Preparing you for surgery: prehabilitation
Dr Kumar’s team can refer you to his Accredited Practising Dietitian before surgery. Bariatric surgery changes how you absorb protein, iron and vitamin B12, the nutrients wound healing draws on, so the same dietetic support continues after your operation.
Measuring what the scales cannot
Where it helps, Dr Kumar arranges a DEXA body composition scan to separate fat mass from lean muscle. It guides 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. Dressings and compression garments are supplied and managed by Dr Kumar’s team, and Dr Kumar reviews his surgical patients for twelve months after surgery.
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 an ANZBCPS Board Certified, Australian-trained specialist plastic surgeon with over 20 years of surgical 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.
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 $88, 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.
Not sure whether a Medicare item applies to you? That is settled at consultation, with your history and an examination — not online. You can also call 1300 267 726 to speak with Dr Kumar’s nursing team.
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’s galleries show his own patients, photographed before and after surgery and grouped by procedure. Body contouring after major weight loss, in women and men, is the core of his practice.
Each result reflects that patient’s anatomy, weight history and how their surgery was staged. Individual results vary, and the images are relevant only to the patient shown.
The galleries contain clinical images intended for adults 18 and over.
