Abdominoplasty is a surgical cosmetic procedure more commonly known as tummy tuck surgery. It’s where a plastic surgeon will flatten a protruding abdomen through fat removal procedures. These are liposuction, excess skin removal, and muscular tightening in the lower stomach, waist, and pelvic region. People who have stretch marks on their lower abdomen that lies in the area of surgery. They will also enjoy the removal of those marks. It is popular with women who have stopped bearing children, people who have lost excess weight and have a flabby abdomen or loose muscles that deforms natural body contours. This procedure is cosmetic and elective in nature, resulting mostly in increased self-esteem that stems from a better-looking body.

The following guide to tummy tuck surgery will explain the factors leading to a patient making them a liable candidate for surgery. liposuction works best for those who practice exercise and a good diet on a regular basis since it boosts them towards their desired goal that is somehow unattainable through these normal ways.

This article will briefly go over the procedure known as a tummy tuck. There are several techniques for a tummy tuck in Dubai and the two most common ones are discussed below.

Tummy Tuck Technique

Full Tummy Tuck

For a full tummy tuck, an incision will make across the lower stomach. It is in addition to the traditional incision around the belly button. From the surgical site, excess skin snipped away while the muscles tightened and liposuction also utilized to shape the contours of the waist. In a full abdominoplasty, loose skin removed from the navel down to the pelvic area that is in excess due to pregnancies, hereditary factors, or obesity.

Mini Tummy Tuck

For a mini tummy tuck, a single incision of size varying from a few inches to all along the abdomen made as low on the pelvic region as possible. Through this, your plastic surgeon will excise loose skin, tighten flabby muscles and apply liposuction if necessary. A mini-abdominoplasty candidate is ideally an individual who sports a protruding belly (loose skin and fat) below the belly button. This procedure advised for those people who are in good health and as close as possible to their ideal weight. But they have come to discover that diet and exercise won’t help in improving their body shape.

Tummy Tuck Surgery Procedure

Outlined below are the basic steps that must take for tummy tuck surgery.

• The plastic surgeon will begin by marking out your abdomen with a marker to outline the locations of the incisions that need to do. He/she will also mark the center of your torso and the new position of the navel.
• Then the anesthesia comes in where a solution of lidocaine and epinephrine. A sedative that constricts blood vessels to close blood flow) will insert into the abdomen.
• A primary incision will make right above the pelvic bone extending from one hip to the other and varying in length from patient to patient. Another incision might be made around the navel if the procedure is a full abdominoplasty.
• Next comes muscle tone enhancement and repair where the plastic surgeon will separate the skin covering the abdominal wall up to the lower ribs. Then using soluble stitches he/she will tighten the muscles by repositioning them gently.

Further Steps

• Once the muscles have been sutured, the liposuction bit comes in. The surgeon will make use of a cannula as per specification to remove excess fat by liposuction. Then the abdominal skin pulled over the surgical site and the excess skin clipped away.
• Since the navel fixed body part, the surgeon must have to make a new hole through your stretched skin for your navel so it can fit in its new position.
• The surgery site then closed either by medical staples, sutures, tissue glue, or Steri-Strips.
• In the full tummy tuck procedure, the placement of one or more drains to steadily remove fluid produced by the body inserted strategically before wrapping the bandages. Body fluid created over wounds is the body’s way of keeping the wound free from infection but a buildup of fluid can also cause pressure on the closed incision and affect the final results. The drain is a transparent plastic tube placed in a tiny incision below the main one which is attached to a small oval-shaped rubber bulb. The bulb fills up over time and every time you empty it is necessary to squeeze the bulb before screwing it back onto the end of the tube.

Candidacy

The ideal candidate for tummy tuck surgery is an adult as close as possible to their ideal weight and who lead healthy lives but face mental, social, and personal problems with how their body shape looks due to stubbornness (not affected by dieting or exercise) fat deposits or loose skin in the abdominal area.

• Patients preferred to be in good physical health and are mentally stable
• Have realistic expectations from the surgery
• Carry localized fat deposits in the abdominal area
• Suffer from skin laxity and folds of deep tissue around their midsection
• Are motivated to maintain their results by continuing healthy dieting and exercise

• Candidates must abstain from smoking and alcohol intake for at least a month before surgery so that it doesn’t interfere with healing
• Patients should not suffer from threatening medical conditions that can be compromised through surgery
• Female patients should pass their time of getting pregnant again and have decided to bear no more children since it can cause a reversal in the results attained from surgery. Plan to become pregnant
• Patients should not plan to lose excessive volume of weight after surgery
• Patients should obligate to undergo the procedure by someone else since it is undoubtedly elective in nature.

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