Introduction
Through her aesthetic medicine practice, Dr Rozina Ali offers a range of innovative treatments and procedures that can address a diverse range of cosmetic concerns and enhance your natural beauty. Whether you’re seeking subtle enhancements or transformative changes, Miss Ali offers minimally invasive treatments and surgical techniques tailored to rejuvenate your skin, improve facial and body contours, and enhance appearance.
Whether you are concerned about excess fat deposits, sagging skin, or uneven contours, aesthetic medicine can deliver transformative results to help you look and feel better.
Belly Fat
Belly fat is common to men and women and may be due to diet, inactivity, hormones, genetics, or lifestyle. Improving your diet and getting regular exercise is always good for your overall health, including mental wellbeing and reducing body fat levels.
However, excess fat and stress hormones combine to deposit fat over the belly- in men and women. That unwanted pooch is nobody’s friend!
A condition called divarication of the Recti (where the abdominal muscles are loose) can occur after childbirth or major weight loss and is best addressed with surgical interventions that tighten or oversew the strong fascia to strengthen your core, reposition your muscles and where necessary remove excess abdominal tissue (tummy tuck).
For those with thick, fatty tissue immediately beneath their skin, liposuction followed by a full abdominoplasty may be more effective in achieving the desired contours.
Each of these procedures targets different aspects of abdominal appearance and can be tailored to your specific needs and goals.
Dr Rozina Ali can also offer consultations and monitoring for weight loss injections such as Mounjaro.
Apron Flap/’Mummy Tummy’
An abdominal pannus or ‘apron flap’ refers to overhang of abdominal tissue that can occur after significant weight loss or multiple pregnancies and is not usually possible to eradicate through diet and exercise alone. If you have excess lower abdominal tissue, especially with poor elasticity and stretch marks, this can often be removed through a procedure called mini abdominoplasty, where only the actual overhang of the abdomen is removed without moving the belly button.
Lumps, Bumps & Lesions
At any point in our life, we may develop a lump, bump or lesion on the skin. These may be palpable under the skin or protruding out or hanging from the skin, being unsightly, irritating and maybe getting caught in clothing .
Lesions come in all sizes and colours and the reasons for removal vary from unsightly appearance, to catching, becoming irritated or bleeding, to concerns about the diagnosis and removal for the purposes of tissue diagnosis.
Whether it’s a skin tag, mole, wart or cyst, these irregularities are usually harmless, but can cause frustration and discomfort.
Dr Rozina Ali has 25 years of NHS experience in removing suspicious or unsightly lesions. Where there is sufficient information to make a definitive clinical diagnosis, Rozina will do so, then deal with any lesions in the most aesthetically possible manner. Where a diagnosis is not clear or there is a suspicious clinical history, then Rozina will make a clinical judgement to safely remove the lesions (with clear tissue margins for histological diagnosis), again in the most safe and aesthetically pleasing way. The art of Plastic surgery is to move tissues and to sew wounds in the most favourable way- the incision being directed parallel to the lines of relaxed skin tension so that there is no unnecessary tension on the wound.
Injured or Enlarged Labia
Labia, come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colours. There is no right or wrong to nature.
However, if there are functional concerns such as enlarged labia, torn or asymmetric labia, this may resulting in physical symptoms such as chaffing, recurrent infections, discomfort in tight clothing or disruption of meaningful activities from intimate relations to pleasurable hobbies such as cycling, horse riding etc, then it becomes a concern and surgical intervention may be sought. In som ecases, aesthetic dissatisfaction alone may trigger self-referral and is not uncommon.
Having misshapen, large, or asymmetric labia may become noticeable when wearing tight clothing or a swimsuit and can cause both discomfort and embarrassment. Individuals may also note a change in appearance following hormonal changes (pregnancy, menopause, medication).
Dr Rozina Ali is a highly regarded aesthetic and reconstructive surgeon, and has a special interest in all aspects of women’s health. Her NHS consultant practice included perineal and gynaecological reconstruction and she has performed numerous labiaplasty and revision labiaplasty procedures, helping many women regain physical and sexual confidence.
Stubborn Body Fat
Fat accumulates all over our bodies and can occur anywhere.
Stubborn fat deposits can be due to the changes in body fat distribution as we get older and become increasingly difficult to eradicate through diet or exercise. Most commonly, pinchable subcutaneous fat is laid down on the abdomen, thighs and/or flanks, less so on the upper arms and back. Some individuals can have localised deposits or specific areas such as a chin, ankles, or knees.
There are many treatments for reducing stubborn fat, both surgical and non-surgical, some of which include tightening of loose skin after weight loss, as well as lipo-sculpting or contouring to give you a more defined silhouette and pleasing body shape.
Dr Rozina Ali will be able to advise you of possible courses of action to achieve your aesthetic goal including consultation on hormone replacement and weight loss injections.
Scarring
A scar is a natural consequence of any tissue injury and the body’s healing process.
Planned surgical scars should ideally mature to flat, barely visible thin lines. However, scarring because of injury or disease, in younger patients, those with darker skin and across areas of skin tension or movement (joints) can be more challenging.
These types of scars may include acne scars (pock marks), hyperpigmented scars, Keloids (scar tissue that protrudes beyond the original injury), hypertrophic scars (raised scar due to excess collagen) and cicatrising burn scars.
Dr Rozina Ali has a deep professional and personal interest in optimising scar appearance and function. Treatment may vary from simple dressings, silicone, and compression, through to steroid injections, technologies such as microneedling, intralesional steroid injections or cryotherapy. There is a limited but important place for surgery include cutting out or re-aligning the adverse scar or filling it using stem cells via cellenis Natural filler or fat transfer.