Abdominoplasty - tummy tuck
- repairs undesired changes in the abdomen contours
- removes excessive skin and skin overhangs
- firms up abdominal skin
- firms up and repairs separated and loosened abdominal muscles (diastasis)
- improves body harmony and even own self-confidence
The Clinic offers and performs a full spectrum of modern abdominal plastic surgery relative to client anatomy and extent of problem area
Abdominoplasty types:
- Abdominoplasty
- Miniabdominoplasty
- Lipoabdominoplasty
- all types of abdominal plastic surgeries including the repair of diastasis recti (treatment of separated abdominal muscles)
Abdominal plastic surgery (Abdominoplasty) repairs adverse changes in the contours of the abdominal area and reduces excessive skin and fat folds. It is mainly used to repair the separation of loose transverse abdominal muscles (diastasis). Most often such an adverse change in the contour occurs following pregnancy, when the shrunk abdominal wall almost always stays loose, which can also turn into skin overhangs. Same manifestations can then form after a greater reduction in weight, where the skin folds are loosened, which is only emphasized by further weight loss and it is impossible to get rid even by intensive exercise. Abdominal wall muscles are frequently also weakened. (Another adverse phenomena, which appears relative to this is white little scars called striae.)
It is these adverse conditions of abdominal area that the abdominoplasty resolves. Extent of these changes is individual, but abdominoplasty is not a solution to obesity, an abdomen with exceptional excess of fat tissue is unsuitable for this type of procedure. Client must first reduce fat and stabilize his/her weight. To achieve a more dramatic result the abdominoplasty can be combined with a liposuction of the abdomen and hips.
Abdominal surgery lasts 2 to 3 hours and is performed under full anesthesia. The hospitalization then lasts according to the extent of the procedure 2 to 3 days.
The surgery's purpose is to firm up the separated abdominal muscles (diastasis) by stitching them together and removing excess skin from the abdominal area. The cut is horizontal in the underbelly above pubic hair, which ensures "invisibility" of the scar. The cut disrupts skin and subcutaneous tissue, not the muscle. Excess skin with subcutaneous fat is separated from the abdominal wall and removed, the navel is cut around, skin is pulled down so it is stretched. The resulting horizontal scar after abdominoplasty is hidden in the low in underbelly hidden by underwear. Appearance and size of such an abdominoplasty scar depends on client bodily dispositions. If the abdominal areas does not offer enough free skin or on the contrary there is a large volume of excess skin and fat in the middle section of the abdomen around the navel, it is then necessary to make the cut in such a way that the first horizontal scar stays low in the underbelly and the second, vertical, then runs perpendicular to it. For some clients the skin folds are not only in the underbelly, but also around the hips. Even this can be resolved in a single abdominoplasty.
The objective of abdominoplasty is not only a pretty and functional result, but also to halt the process of further loosening of the abdominal wall. Abdominoplasty is performed on women and usually it removes several kilograms of fat tissue and skin. This procedure offers the client significant physical and psychological relief. Depending on client lifestyle the effect of abdominoplasty is long term to permanent and if no significant changes in weight occur, the surgery does not need to be repeated. After an abdominoplasty a women can become pregnant and undergo any form of childbirth.