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The expert’s expert in body contouring after weight loss plastic surgery.
Dr. Joseph F. Capella, MD, FACS, is a pioneer and world leader in plastic surgery after weight loss. For more than 25 years, body contouring after weight loss has been 100% of his practice — not a subspecialty within a broader cosmetic practice. He has cared for more than 25,000 patients and personally performed over 15,000 body contouring surgical procedures, including more than 3,000 body lifts, 3,000 tummy tucks, 3,000 mommy makeovers, 2,000 arm lifts, and 1,000 inner thigh lifts.
He holds the largest published series by a single surgeon on body lifts, arm lifts, and medial thigh lifts in the world, and is the co-author of 13 books — including one of the first books ever written on body contouring after weight loss. More than 99% of his patients rate him five stars.
Dr. Capella serves as Chief of the Division of Post-Bariatric Surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center and Chief of Plastic Surgery at Pascack Valley Medical Center, and sits on the Post-Bariatric Task Force of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons — helping define the field’s standard of care.
“I became a plastic surgeon focused on surgery after weight loss to help transform lives — and I’m honored to be part of each patient’s incredible journey.”
— Dr. Joseph F. Capella, MD, FACS
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25,000+
Patients cared for
15,000+
Body contouring procedures after weight loss
3,000+
Body lifts personally performed
3,000+
Tummy Tucks personally performed
2,000+
Arm lifts personally performed
1,000+
Inner thigh lifts personally performed
25+
Years in practice
5 Stars
From more than 99% of patients
Dr. Joseph F. Capella is a nationally and
internationally recognized leading expert in
body contouring surgery.
He lectures and provides instructional courses on a regular basis at the symposia of some of the most prestigious plastic surgery organizations in the world. With the most extensive experience and the largest published series of cases on body contouring after weight loss in the world, Dr. Capella is constantly striving to deliver a better experience for patients through both practice and leadership.
Dr. Capella has published numerous peer-reviewed articles — including “The Vertical Medial Thigh Lift” (Clinics in Plastic Surgery, 2014) and “Body Lift: An Account of 200 Consecutive Cases in the Massive Weight Loss Patient” (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 2006) — and has appeared in national media including ABC’s 20/20, The View, Elle, and CNBC.
He is also co-author of Body Contouring Surgery After Weight Loss, one of the first patient-focused guides to body contouring after significant weight loss.
Specializing in Cosmetic Surgery and Plastic Surgery after Weight Loss in New Jersey
Plastic surgery pioneer Dr. Joseph F. Capella is specializing in body contouring after weight loss. With over 25 years of experience and 25,000+ plastic surgery procedures (including more than 15,000 in body contouring after weight loss), he is internationally recognized for his expertise and innovation.
Dr. Capella is actively involved in plastic surgery organizations and regularly lectures at prestigious symposia. Patients and other surgeons from around the world seek his expertise.
GLP-1 medications — including semaglutide and tirzepatide, known by brand names such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound — have brought a large and fast-growing population of patients to plastic surgery. Roughly 12% of American adults now report taking a GLP-1 medication, and total U.S. use is projected to approach 30 million people by 2030.
The faster and more dramatic the weight loss, the more excess, loose skin remains — something no medication or amount of exercise can correct. Studies of major-weight-loss patients consistently find that up to 96% develop excess skin, 70–90% want surgical correction, yet only about one in five ever receives it. For most patients, the missing piece is not information about losing weight — it is expert surgical care to complete the transformation.
Across more than 25,000 patients and over 15,000 body contouring surgical procedures, the techniques now being applied to GLP-1 patients across the country are techniques Dr. Capella developed, refined, published, and taught to other surgeons long before GLP-1 medications existed.
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Yes — and this is a genuine difference in capability. Most surgeons stage an upper and lower body lift months apart. Dr. Capella can perform both in a single operation, roughly 6 hours, because his refined technique makes single-stage surgery safe. For the patient that means one anesthesia event, one recovery, and months saved — rather than two separate surgeries and two recoveries.
Significant weight loss from GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound can leave excess, loose skin on the abdomen, arms, thighs, and breasts that diet and exercise cannot remove. Body contouring surgery removes this skin and restores body shape. Dr. Capella evaluates each patient individually to recommend the appropriate procedures.
Dr. Capella performs a lower body lift in approximately 3 hours — well below the 5–8 hours commonly reported across the field. Shorter operative time is a patient-safety advantage: peer-reviewed literature links longer surgery to higher rates of complications, blood loss, and anesthesia-related events. His efficiency reflects a technique refined over thousands of cases.
Medically reviewed by Dr. Joseph F. Capella, MD, FACS — September 10, 2026.
