MINI TUMMY TUCK SKIN

+ Do I have to lose weight before a Tummy Tuck? The timing for a tummy tuck procedure is most often planned after the patient has completed her family.

MINI TUMMY TUCK SKIN

Patients who have gained a significant amount of weight can have a significant bulge of skin and fat over the belt line. In men, a significant weight loss or weight gain can produce the same abdominal deformity as seen in women. The muscle stretch following pregnancy may produce a bulging tummy and a rectus muscle diastasis (a separation of the abdominal muscles). This excess skin may be accompanied by residual fat that did not disappear from the pregnancy, or may be the result of weight gain after pregnancy in women, or generalized weight gain in both women and men. If this happens, there will be excess abdominal skin leaving a skin ripple or extra skin folds over the upper and lower portion of the abdomen. The skin and muscle may not return to normal after the pregnancy and breast feeding. In women, after pregnancy, the skin and muscles of the abdomen have been significantly stretched. + Why does skin and fat not respond to weight loss and/or exercise?

The typical patient who is a candidate for a tummy tuck procedure has excess skin, or, skin and fat over the abdomen that has not responded to weight loss and/or exercise. It is also referred to as an abdominoplasty. This is a surgical operation to improve the appearance and contour of the upper and lower abdomen by lifting the mons pubis area (hair line area), removing fat and skin from the lower abdomen, removing fat from the upper abdomen, and the mons pubis area, tightening the abdominal muscles, and then tightening the abdominal skin.Ī tummy tuck treats skin, fat, and muscle.

Mini tummy tuck