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Secondary Contouring Procedures After Tummy Tuck Surgery

  A tummy tuck or abdominoplasty surgery is a very popular and effective body contouring procedure. By removing a full-thickness section of skin and fat from the lower mid-section of varying sizes, the contour of one’s waistline and stomach area can be dramatically changed beyond what diet and exercise can do for most people so Read More…

Case Study: Tummy Tuck for the Double Roll Abdominal Deformity

  Background: Tummy tucks are done for a wide variety of abdominal wall deformities. Whether it is a small lower pooch from pregnancies or a large overhanging pannus from a lifetime of weight gain (and some weight loss), tummy tucks are done in an almost customized fashion for each patient. The location and extent of Read More…

Case Study: Tummy Tuck for Waistline Reshaping and Weight Loss

Background: The tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) is one of the most popular of all the body contouring procedures. Whether helping to reverse the effects of pregnancy or that of weight loss, it achieves what no amount of diet and exercising can do…the removal of loose/stretched out abdominal skin. But it does so with the aesthetic trade-off Read More…

The Lasting Effect of Muscle Plication in Tummy Tucks

One of the traditional steps in most tummy tuck procedures is the correction of the separated rectus abdominus muscles or the recti diastasis. The stretching of the muscles and their enveloping sheaths caused by pregnancy often causes some visible separation in the midline which is commonly seen during tummy tuck surgery. While many patients think Read More…

The Timing of Mommy Makeovers after Pregnancy

Just like the process of pregnancy, recovering from it is also a function of time. Stretched out abdominal skin and muscles and engorged breasts will not instantly snap back into what they were.  At the least it is a period of months before a woman’ s body has any chance of returning to its pre-pregnancy Read More…

The Fate of the Belly Button in Tummy Tuck Surgery

The tummy tuck is the most commonly done excisional body contouring procedure. By the removal of a small (mini tummy tuck) or large (full tummy tuck) segment of skin and fat in the lower half of the abdomen, the remaining upper half of the abdominal skin is brought down over what was removed. Like the Read More…

Tummy Tucks – Different Types for Different Problems

The tummy tuck operation is one of the traditional and commonly performed body contouring procedures. It is most simplistically envisioned as the removal of loose skin and fat from the lower abdomen to create a flatter stomach albeit with the trade-off of a horizontal scar. While this is basically true there are many variations of Read More…

The Pattern of Weight Loss After Tummy Tuck Surgery

  Tummy tucks or abdominoplasties are a very popular body contouring procedure because it is tremendously effective.While diet and exercise are extremely important for weight loss, it will not get rid of loose skin. Conversely, tummy tucks are not a substitute for weight loss and should not be performed in a persistently obese patient under Read More…

Common Questions About Mommy Makeovers

Mommy Makeover is a descriptive term that has worked its way into the plastic surgery nomenclature in a very short time. Introduced just a few years, women are increasingly requesting this type of surgery. While the term may be recent, the plastic surgery operations used in it have been around for over half a century. Read More…

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