Tummy Tuck Surgery Steps Explained
Full or mini tummy tuck surgery may best meet your needs. Learn about the tummy tuck procedure step by step, how loose skin and fat are safely removed and you’re re-contoured.
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• Tummy Tuck Procedure Summarized. Local or general anesthesia has been administered. The surgeon is now ready to commence the abdominoplasty surgery. The surgical area has been marked to indicate the incision line, commencing initially with an incision directly above the pubic area extending laterally toward the right and left hips. In a follow-on incision, located around the belly button, the surgeon essentially removes any connecting tissue allowing the belly button to float (at the outer surface even while it remains attached to the internal abdominal wall).
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• Stage 2 Of The Tummy Tuck Surgery. With the primary incisions completed the surgeon now lifts and separates the skin from the abdomen, moving the skin up and over the ribs in order that the underlying stomach muscles are exposed. The stomach muscles can now be tightened, the intra-muscle space reduced, allowing the muscles to resume their original “natural” shape and positioning. Sutures are then applied to stomach muscle region in order to bind the tissue into the correct position.
• What About Your Belly Button. Where’s the belly button throughout your tummy tuck procedure …and how does it get re-positioned? The basic answer is that it floats until the surgeon decides where to re-locate the belly button following the tightening of the stomach muscles. The concern for the surgeon (and patient) is to re-position the belly button so that upon recovery the chest retains proper symmetry (and so that the belly button doesn’t end up in the wrong location).
• Stage 3 Removing Fat Via Liposuction. After the belly button is re-located the surgeon can now return the skin flap that was originally drawn up over the ribs. Before returning this skin flap the surgeon removes the build-up fat via liposuction and excises the extra or unnecessary skin. Sutures are applied all around in order to bind the wound at all points. Bandages and dressings are applied as well as drains place to draw off the excess fluids that will build in the surgical treatment area.
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