Dr. Bray's Plastic Surgery Blog

Although liposuction is good for targeting stubborn fat deposits, it is sometimes insufficient. The full abdominoplasty, or tummy tuck, is a surgical procedure typically used for patients with a large protruding abdomen due not only to fat, but also to excess skin that cannot be counted on to retract after a liposuction and to loose abdominal muscles.

The tummy tuck procedure

During a full abdominoplasty:

• The surgeon makes his/her incision from one hipbone to the other.
• In the full procedure, the patient’s navel is detached; this allows the surgeon to pull up the skin and reveal the full abdominal area, up to the ribcage.
• As the surgeon works, he or she is not limited to working in the area between the pelvic region and the navel.
• The surgeon tightens the underlying muscles with permanent sutures, trims and redrapes the skin, and incises away any remaining fat.
• The surgeon also makes an incision that allows the navel to be reattached.

Your abdominoplasty procedure may be combined with liposuction to provide additional shaping and contouring and to get rid of additional fat.

If you are considering an abdominoplasty procedure, please schedule a Beverly Hills abdominoplasty consultation with Bray Plastic Surgery Medical Center at 310-534-8300 to learn more about the abdominoplasty procedure.