Abdominoplasty, also known as “tummy tuck”, is a good way for reproducing the natural, youthful abdominal and trunk contours. The typical situation is a young-to-middle aged woman who has had at least one child, often more than one child, who complains of excess skin and fat, and protrusion of the abdominal midline. Although the rest of her body is often with normal proportions, this disproportion of the lower trunk is often quite noticeable in fitted clothing. These embarrassed women often wear their shirts untucked or very baggy clothing to hide their contour irregularity, their protuberance.
What causes the protuberance is that the pregnancy results in stretching of the skin and of the musculature of the abdomen. After the birth, there is a lot of retraction which occurs, but not always back to the pre-pregnant state. This leaves women with excess protuberance due to muscle laxity and excess skin, often with stretch marks. The pre-pregnancy waistline is lost as the muscle relaxes laterally as well.
Luckily, we do have treatments for this. The full abdominoplasty removes a large portion of the skin, usually that extending from just above the umbilicus down to the pubic hairline. With this excision of skin, most of the stretch marks are removed. With this, the muscles are tightened with stitches. The umbilicus or belly button is left on its stalk and brought out as the available upper abdominal skin is advanced downward. During the procedure, I perform liposuction in the flanks to improve the waist contour even more. The procedure takes approximately two hours.
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Abdominoplasty, also known as “tummy tuck“, is a good way for reproducing the natural, youthful abdominal and trunk contours. The typical situation is a young-to-middle aged woman who has had at least one child, often more than one child, who complains of excess skin and fat, and protrusion of the abdominal midline. Although the rest of her body is often with normal proportions, this disproportion of the lower trunk is often quite noticeable in fitted clothing. These embarrassed women often wear their shirts untucked or very baggy clothing to hide their contour irregularity, their protuberance.
What causes the protuberance is that the pregnancy results in stretching of the skin and of the musculature of the abdomen. After the birth, there is a lot of retraction which occurs, but not always back to the pre-pregnant state. This leaves women with excess protuberance due to muscle laxity and excess skin, often with stretch marks. The pre-pregnancy waistline is lost as the muscle relaxes laterally as well.
Luckily, we do have treatments for this. The full abdominoplasty removes a large portion of the skin, usually that extending from just above the umbilicus down to the pubic hairline. With this excision of skin, most of the stretch marks are removed. With this, the muscles are tightened with stitches. The umbilicus or belly button is left on its stalk and brought out as the available upper abdominal skin is advanced downward. During the procedure, I perform liposuction in the flanks to improve the waist contour even more. The procedure takes approximately two hours.
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