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 to spend their whole day holding their tummy in because actually it’s tightened up. So, with combination of the muscle tightening stitch, or the muscle repair as it’s called for the rectus divarication, together with the removal of the excess skin and tightening of the skin is a full tummy tuck. If patients also have an umbilical hernia, then I would normally fix that at the same time.
