Tummy Tuck for Massive Weight Loss Patients
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Patients who lose 100 or 150 pounds are left with sheets of loose skin; Fleur-de-lis tummy tuck is better at removing excess skin than a standard tummy tuck.
Tummy Tuck Surgery: One Size Does not Fit All!
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One of the most popular cosmetic plastic surgeries, the tummy tuck, or abdominoplasty, is actually available in several sizes.
Your current physique may be:
Normal weight, but showing serious after childbirth effects
Normal weight, but showing minor after childbirth effects
After MWL (massive weight loss), showing a lot of hanging, drooping skin
The basic abdominoplasty is best done when the [...]
Tummy Tuck Study: Many Happy Patients
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We know that the tummy tuck, technically known as an abdominoplasty, is extremely popular, with over 147,000 performed during 2007 on both men and women.
But a recent study in Annals of Plastic Surgery, a professional magazine for plastic surgeons, reveals just how happy tummy tuck patients really can be!
139 abdominoplasty patients were studied from 1994 [...]
Life after Liposuction or Lap Banding
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Many plastic surgery patients have procedures that produce good results and in turn patients are inspired to work ever harder to keep up their new appearance.
Cosmetic plastic surgery procedures that influence changes in diet and exercise often include:
Liposuction
Plastic surgeons say liposuction is not a means of weight control. But once the bothersome pockets of fat [...]
Breast Augmentation, Botox Tops in 2008
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Yearly, the professional plastic surgery societies survey their member surgeons and run other head counting programs that figure the number of plastic surgery procedures performed in a given year. (Read our previous post about 2008’s facial plastic surgery statistics.)
For 2008, about 10.2 million invasive and non-invasive procedures were performed.
Now, the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic [...]