With age, following pregnancies or sudden weight change, muscles and abdominal skin become relaxed and saggy. This sagging is often accompanied by an excess of fat and the appearance of stretch marks, which does not improve with physical exercise, diet, or skin care.
Abdominoplasty is a surgical procedure that tightens the muscles in the abdomen and removes the excess of fat and skin. Most of the time this procedure is accompanied by liposuction. Lipectomy tightens the skin, redefines the waist and makes the stomach flatter and firmer while recreating harmonious abdominal contours to improve your figure and help boost your self-confidence.
Abdominoplasty
Duration
1.5-3 hours
Anesthesia
General
Stay
24 hours
Are you a good candidate?
You may be a good candidate for an abdominoplasty if you are in good general health and ready to embark on the recovery process. This procedure will address the following concerns:
- Separation of the abdominal muscles following pregnancy or weight gain
- Zones of fat in the areas which do not respond to exercise or diet efforts
- Zones of fat in the areas which do not respond to exercise or diet efforts
- The appearance of stretch marks between the navel and the pubic line
Abdominoplasty is not a weight loss procedure. It is generally recommended for patients who have already reached a healthy and stable weight. It is preferable to wait to schedule this surgery until you are no longer expecting children, as pregnancy can affect the results of the procedure.
What are the different
abdominal lipectomy techniques?
To regain a more defined silhouette after pregnancy or massive weight loss, abdominoplasty or mini abdominoplasty are the only solutions to an excess of skin in the belly, which therefore cannot be resolved with sport alone or even with greater weight loss. Thanks to the many refinements developed in recent years (liposuction, lipofilling, high superior tension…), we now obtain a more natural and discreet result, which harmonies well with the rest of the body.
Abdominoplasty offers several options adapted to every case:
- Mini abdominoplasty
- Extended abdominoplasty
- Combination of a liposuction in the flanks and in the abdomen
A complete personalized diagnosis is necessary before the treatment. The length of the horizontal incision depends on every patient.
Procedure
The intervention includes three distinct phases.
Belly liposuction
The surgeon begins by aspirating the fat from the abdomen and the flanks. Liposuction helps refine the area of the abdominal wall in the stomach area prior to removing the excess of skin.
Abdominal surgery
Two types of interventions exist depending on the severity of the saggy skin.
In case of minimal skin sagging, the surgeon performs a mini abdominoplasty. It removes excess skin in the area below the navel without the need to touch the muscles. This technique reduces the risk of bleeding and leaves a moderate scar.
In the event of significant saggy skin, the surgeon does a full abdominoplasty. He removes the excess of skin from the lower part of the belly and straightens, holding it back, the upper half, which is then stretched to cover an almost doubled surface. The navel then emerges at its normal height, through an orifice made in the lowered skin. A scar remains, the length of which depends on the amount of skin removed.
Muscle firming
The surgeon tightens the muscles of the abdominal wall. This tightening of the rectus abdominis muscles (diastasis) helps to recreate a strong abdominal belt, to flatten the stomach area and to slim the waist.
The results
The result is immediately visible. The excess of fat and skin have completely disappeared as well as the stretch marks. The stomach is also flat. The result becomes permanent after two months when the swelling above the scar has completely subsided. The belly is then very flat and tense. As for the waist, it is slimmed down.
The physical and psychological change is often extraordinary. The person again wears clothes more conforming to the body, dares to put back on a swimsuit on the beach and regains confidence in their intimate relationships.
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