Is tummy tuck surgery right for me?
One of the main reasons why women want a tummy tuck is that they feel they look pregnant, they have no core support to their abdomen, so they feel they’ve always got a bit of a bulge that they can’t easily control and they often have excess skin. And in general it just makes them [...]What is a full abdominoplasty?
A full tummy tuck usually involves removal of a large ellipse of skin below the umbilicus, leaving a neat scar in the bikini line, and then when we’ve removed that we stitch the muscles back together which flattens off the abdominal wall and gives a nice, flat, solid tummy again, that the women don’t have [...]What is a mini-abdominoplasty?
There are a range of different types of tummy tuck that are available. Most patients, actually, are suitable for a full tummy tuck, but if someone hasn’t got a lot of excess skin, often what they’ll have is just a little roll of skin in their lower abdomen, but actually the rest of their abdomen [...]What is the recovery like after a tummy tuck?
I usually ask patients to spend at least a week at home after the surgery, taking it easy, not really moving around the house too much, not going out too much. After about a week to ten days they might want to go out, visit some friends, go shopping, but you wouldn’t be carrying heavy [...]What are the disadvantages of a tummy tuck?
The potential downsides of a tummy tuck are that there’s a large scar, it runs from hipbone to hipbone, right across the bikini line. Some women are not really prepared to accept the scar, in most patients it fades, but it never disappears, it’s always there. Also, the skin on the abdomen is detached from [...]What are the risks in an abdominoplasty?
The risks of tummy tuck are pretty much the same as any operation; so there are the anaesthetic risks, which are relatively minor. Specific to the surgery you can get bleeding under the skin following surgery and that can occasionally require a trip back to theatre to undo the sutures, stop the bleeding and re-suture [...]Am I suitable for Tummy Tuck Surgery?
The main group of patients that require a tummy tuck are women who’ve had children. The effect of pregnancy causes usually three different things. It causes separation of the rectus muscles, which are the six-pack muscles that run either side of the tummy button, causes separation of those muscles which gives a sort of central [...]