Ted Lockwood

Ted Lockwood, M.D., was an aesthetic plastic surgeon in private practice and clinical assistant professor of plastic surgery at the University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City.

Lockwood developed an abdominoplasty procedure, the lower body lift, that combines the sculpting tool of liposuction with a lifting operation and shifts tissues "back where they came from."

His studies indicated that loosening of the tissues occurs out to the sides of the body, so that a lot of the vertical loosening is along the side contours. The loose skin falls toward the middle of the stomach and towards the inner thighs from both directions. "It stops there and then it hangs," Lockwood said.

Lockwood died at the age of 59, after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. Dr. Lockwood was born on May 19, 1945.