A Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty) aims to improve your abdominal contour giving your stomach a flatter appearance. This procedure removes excess skin and fat deposits from the stomach with the additional benefit of repairing loose and damaged abdominal muscles.
With age and circumstances, our abdomen goes through various elastic challenges, especially extreme weight gain, weight loss, and childbearing. These realities can make it incredibly tough to regain tone and tightness in the abdomen, regardless of diet and exercise, how many sit-ups we do, or the extent of caloric intake we control.
This frequently happens during pregnancy when the stretching of the stomach causes the abdominal muscles to separate, a condition known as diastasis recti. Once this happens, no amount of diet or exercise will deliver the results you desire, not until the separated abdominal muscles are repaired. Often, the skin is stretched beyond the limits of natural repair during pregnancy and weight fluctuation, leaving the individual with stretch marks and loose, hanging skin and fat.
A tummy tuck procedure addresses these concerns by streamlining and sculpting loose skin around the midsection, restoring your abdominal anatomy to a more youthful state.
Mini-Tummy Tuck
Some patients have very minimal excess fat and skin but still have muscle weakness that requires repair. In this technique, a smaller incision can usually be utilized, and the muscle repair and skin excision can then be performed. This first breast reduction surgery usually does not require moving the belly button to another location.