Cosmetic Surgery Blogger @ January 4, 2012 # No Comment Yet
Because every individual has a varying amount of excess skin, fats, tissues, and weakened muscles; and different goals and expectations, plastic surgeons have developed surgical variations in tummy tuck surgery.
Meanwhile, these are the most common incision patterns used in tummy tuck:
Traditional tummy tuck
This approach involves making a hip-to-hip incision and another one around the navel [...]
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Cosmetic Surgery Blogger @ December 28, 2011 # No Comment Yet
During pregnancy, the abdominal muscles and skin are stretched to their limit in order to accommodate the growing baby. In some cases, the fats also start to accumulate in the tummy which further aggravate the sagging appearance in the area.
Unfortunately, even the most rigorous exercise is sometimes not enough to address the sagging appearance especially [...]
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Cosmetic Surgery Blogger @ November 29, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Tummy tuck, also known as abdominoplasty, is a plastic surgery procedure commonly used for massive weight loss patients and mothers who have developed excess skin and bulging fats in their abdomen. This hanging tissue, which is called panniculus, sometimes lead to breakdown of skin, irritation, foul odor, poor hygiene, ulcers, back problem, and difficulty in [...]
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Cosmetic Surgery Blogger @ November 24, 2011 # No Comment Yet
The traditional tummy tuck is a relatively invasive procedure as it involves a long incision that extends from hipbone to hipbone, with its middle traveling along the pubic line while its sides curve up to the hips. With this procedure, more amounts of excess skin and fats are removed and the weakened muscles are repaired [...]
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Cosmetic Surgery Blogger @ October 27, 2011 # No Comment Yet
In the traditional tummy tuck approach, plastic surgeons make a hipbone-to-hipbone incision with its middle touching the pubic line while its two sides are curving upward to the hips, thus resembling a smile-shaped surgical cut. Through this incision, they can repair and suture the weakened abdominal muscles and then eliminate the hanging skin, fat, and [...]
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