Category: tummy tuck

Tummy Tucks and the Risk of Complications

Tummy tucks have always been one of the top five plastic surgery procedures requested and performed for as long as I can remember. Despite it being commonly performed and having a tummy tuck seems like a benign operation, it is major surgery and with that comes the risk of complications. Patients do recognize that Read More…

Tummy Tucks and Weight Loss

Tummy tuck surgery can produce some extremely dramatic changes in a patient’s waistline and frontal abdominal contour. But one question that prospective patients often ask is how permanent is a tummy tuck? Will I go through this big operation with the associated recovery and cost only to have the same problem years later? Another common Read More…

Tummy Tucks and the Pubic Lift Effect

A tummy tuck can produce a dramatic change in the shape of one’s abdomen and frontal waistline. By removing a large horizontal ellipse of loose skin and fat, a tightening and flattening effect is seen when the remaining abdominal tissues are put back together. Such reapposition is known as a transposition of the remaining Read More…

Dispelling Myths about Tummy Tuck Surgery

The tummy tuck is one of the most commonly performed and satisfying of all body plastic surgery procedures. It is so effective because it does something that diet and exercise can not do at all…remove loose skin. Muscles can be tightened and some fat removed by non-surgical methods but loose and extra skin will Read More…

Understanding Abdominal Contouring Treatment Options

Abdominal contouring is one of the most common body changes that many patients request. Pregnancy, fluctuations in weight and for some their own genetics make for this body centric area a focus of appearance and clothing wear. Numerous plastic surgery procedures exist for its modification but, in the end, they all involve methods to either Read More…

Successful Tummy Tuck and Monsplasty Combination in Weight Loss Patients

Tummy tuck or abdominoplasty surgery recontours the waistline area out into the hips. Most tummy tucks do influence the area below the location of the incision line known as the mons pubis. While it is commonly believed that the upper abdominal skin flap covers the entire area of abdominal tissue excision in a tummy tuck, Read More…

Drug Levels and Blood Loss After Liposuction and Abdominoplasty

Liposuction remains one of the most common body contouring operations in cosmetic surgery. While often viewed as ‘simple’ with little recovery and promising dramatic results from the perspective of how it is often marketed and promoted, liposuction is a very invasive procedure that induces a lot of tissue trauma. The small size of the cannula Read More…

Liposuction and the Theory of Fat Re-Accumulation and Redistribution

Liposuction remains the most effective method of instantaneous fat reduction. Studies and surveys have repeatedly shown that its initial effects are very visible and, as a result, has a high patient satisfaction rating. But well done long-term studies are lacking that evaluate what happens to the contours of the treated areas as well as other Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Exercise After Tummy Tucks

One of the most satisfying body contouring procedures is that of the tummy tuck or abdominoplasty. Patients consistently report that they are extremely satisfied and would do the procedure over again. Many such satisfied patients also say they wish they had done it sooner had they known how much difference it can make. While it Read More…