What About A Tummy Tuck?
When you have a tummy tuck, the procedure removes loose sagging abdominal skin and tightens weakened abdominal wall muscles. Regular exercise and a healthy diet help most people feel and look better in general, but some problems which resist this effort, like a belly that just won’t slim down, can be fixed by a tummy tuck or abdominoplasty. About 80,000 American women and men undergo tummy tuck surgery each year.
A procedure commonly called a mini-tummy tuck, is available for patients with a limited amount of loose skin and who would not need the tightening of abdominal muscles that is part of a standard abdominoplasty, the medical name for a tummy tuck. Liposuction is often an integral part of the procedure to eliminate fatty deposits that are lurking.
Both the tummy tuck and a mini-tummy tuck are surgeries that have scars remaining afterward. Your plastic surgeon will make the incisions so that they can be hidden just above the public hair line where you can be sure they will not be seen even when wearing a bikini.
Women who are considering abdominoplasty should be finished with childbearing or they may forfeit the benefits of the surgery without a second procedure. A tummy tuckdoes address any stretch marks by removing most of the skin below the navel that is most often affected.
A tummy tuck results in an abdomen that is tight and flat, a narrow curvy waist, and firmer thighs and buttocks.
