Tummy Tuck Surgery
What Is Tummy Tuck Surgery?
Tummy tuck surgery, medically known as abdominoplasty is performed to remove excess fat and skin and restore weakened or separated muscles of the abdominal area to make the abdomen look flatter, smoother and firmer.
Stubborn fat in abdominal area that is exercise and diet resistant can be removed using liposuction techniques and the skin is then tightened to give a flatter abdominal profile.
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Why Tummy Tuck Surgery Is Done?
Tummy Tuck procedure is done if:
- You have got a flab in the abdomen which does not go with exercise.
- The shape of your abdomen has been affected by pregnancy or massive weight loss
- You feel protruding abdomen is unattractive
- You can hold a pannus of tissue with both your hands below the belly button and feels it unwanted
What Tummy Tuck Surgery Can / Can’t Do
- Can
- Make your tummy flat and toned
- Remove excess fat
- Remove excess skin
- Correct divarication of recti
- Make your body more proportionate
- Can’t
- Change your body type completely
- Remove more than 5l of fat
- Bring your entire body back to pre-pregnancy
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How You Should Prepare For Tummy Tuck Surgery?
- Consult a board certified plastic surgeon
- The surgeon will prescribe some blood tests
- The surgeon will prescribe medications or adjust your current medications
- Stop smoking
- Avoid any medication not prescribed by the surgeon, like aspirin or any anti-inflammatory drugs. They can increase bleeding during the surgery
- Stop taking any recreational drugs, such as cocaine
- Arrange for a driver to take you back home post the surgery or someone to stay with you in case one night admission is required
What is the Procedure of Tummy Tuck Surgery?
Abdominoplasty or tummy tuck involves the removal of excess fat and skin from the patient’s abdomen. Using the state-of-the-art liposuction technology at RG Aesthetics, we remove excess fat. Then the excess skin is measured, removed and sutured back so that it is tucked away. The measuring is done by pulling down the excess skin from the upper abdomen over the newly flat muscle structure.
This procedure has excellent results that are long-lasting and look very natural. Therefore, they are very desirable, especially in people who would like to see immediate differences in body type. It can also correct the divarication of recti muscles, which is one of the side effects of multiple pregnancies.
Recovery After Tummy Tuck Surgery?
- Outpatient procedure
- You may have some swelling, bruising & discomfort in the first 24-48 hours. This is only temporary and diminishes as the recovery proceeds.
- You can start your daily routine work from next day after the surgery and can go for a walk etc.
- If you are on a desk job, you will be able to return to work 3 days post-op.
- Avoid sudden movements, lifting weights, etc., for approximately two week.
- Use compression garment for minimum 4 weeks after the surgery for the breasts to maintain the contours achieved immediately after the surgery.
- By one month, bruising, discomfort and most swelling will disappear and you will feel “back to normal”.
- And by 6-8 weeks, you can begin all types of physical activities, but only after the consent of your surgeon.
Risk involved in Tummy Tuck Surgery?
Like every surgery, there are risks and potential complications of tummy tuck. Common risks involved in tummy tuckinclude, anesthesia risks, bleeding, hematoma, a chance of infection, less sensation, scarring, seroma and persistent pain.
However, if performed by a board-certified plastic surgeon the complications are avoidable.