Abdominoplasty

00:00:05.800 --> 00:00:08.840 A tummy tuck surgery, or what some people 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:12.680 call an abdominoplasty, is a surgery to contour your waistline and get rid of the 00:00:12.710 --> 00:00:17.100 excess skin and fat that you have on your lower belly and try to give you a flat 00:00:17.130 --> 00:00:20.620 belly and also tighten the muscles at the same time. 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:22.120 People who are a good candidate are people 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:25.940 who have been working out or trying to lose weight, and they have a little bit of 00:00:25.970 --> 00:00:32.260 flabbiness or extra skin, or very commonly, a woman who had been pregnant 00:00:32.290 --> 00:00:38.700 and now wants to restore their waistline and their abdominal shape to what it was 00:00:38.730 --> 00:00:41.380 before their pregnancy or when they were younger. 00:00:41.410 --> 00:00:45.960 A tummy tuck is necessary if you're the kind of person that has loose extra skin, 00:00:45.990 --> 00:00:51.560 or their waistline isn't the shape and despite the fact that you are dieting and 00:00:51.590 --> 00:00:56.060 exercising, you can't really get it back to the shape that you want it to be. 00:00:56.080 --> 00:00:57.860 That's where we can step in and do a 00:00:57.890 --> 00:01:02.400 surgical procedure to achieve the result that you can't achieve with diet and 00:01:02.430 --> 00:01:06.740 exercise alone, especially if your abdominal wall muscles are weak, 00:01:06.770 --> 00:01:12.490 or especially if you've been pregnant in the past, or if you've lost weight. 00:01:12.520 --> 00:01:15.960 What we offer, and the reason why you should consider our practice for your 00:01:15.990 --> 00:01:19.770 surgery is because we tailor the technique that we use for every patient. 00:01:19.800 --> 00:01:23.720 Some patients need additional procedures done at the same time as their tummy tuck 00:01:23.750 --> 00:01:26.180 operation, whether or not it's liposuction. 00:01:26.210 --> 00:01:28.520 Not everybody's the same and that's the 00:01:28.550 --> 00:01:30.900 approach that we take with all of our patients. 00:01:30.930 --> 00:01:32.880 A lot of times in addition to the tummy 00:01:32.910 --> 00:01:37.740 tuck while we're doing the operation, it's also necessary to do liposuction. 00:01:37.770 --> 00:01:43.060 The tummy tuck operation is an abdominal contouring or a body contouring procedure. 00:01:43.090 --> 00:01:45.520 The tummy tuck alone is not enough to 00:01:45.550 --> 00:01:49.660 contour the waistline and the trunk to get the result that we want. 00:01:49.690 --> 00:01:56.380 We very often or almost always include liposuction in the tummy tuck procedure. 00:01:56.410 --> 00:01:59.540 The recovery time for a tummy tuck is about two weeks. 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:01.200 You're going to be up and out of bed and 00:02:01.230 --> 00:02:05.880 walking on the very first night after surgery, and you need to take off a couple 00:02:05.910 --> 00:02:10.140 of weeks from work and a few weeks to not do any strenuous 00:02:10.170 --> 00:02:13.580 physical activity, but you'll be feeling fine after a few weeks. 00:02:13.600 --> 00:02:16.060 A tummy tuck operation is not always the same operation. 00:02:16.090 --> 00:02:18.580 There are actually different kinds of tummy tucks. 00:02:18.610 --> 00:02:22.780 There's something that we call a mini tummy tuck or a mini abdominoplasty, 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:26.680 which is much less invasive and often is the only thing that you need, rather than 00:02:26.710 --> 00:02:32.320 the bigger operation which has a longer recovery and has more discomfort.