Tummy Tuck: Prices, Photos, Reviews, Info, Q&A

Lipo of stomach will help until you are done with pregnancies.

I am so impressed by people that can lose a lot of weight, because it is so hard to do.

Eventually, you will benefit by having a tummy tuck, but you can consider tumescent liposuction now.

It is safe and simple, and will give you temporary improvement. (George J. Beraka, MD, Manhattan Plastic Surgeon)

I think you will be happier with a tummy tuck. Lipo alone may leave you lumpy due to loose skin. (Gregory Sexton, MD, Columbia Plastic Surgeon)

I consider you a very good candidate for a Full Tummy Tuck, wich will crown your efforts of those 50 pound you lost. You will be happier after a tummy tuck than > Lipo alone. (Ricardo Vega, MD, Mexico Plastic Surgeon)

Tummy tuck with lipo medical reason

From the pictures alone, I would recommend an abdominoplasty procedure with liposuction of the hips. You would be a very high risk of having loose skin after liposuction alone. (Christian Prada, MD, FACS, Saint Louis Plastic Surgeon)

Tummy tuck with lipo?

Congratulations on your weight loss! You didn’t mention if you are plannin g to lose more weight. The photos suggest that a Tummy tuck is your best solution to your stomach pouch.

Tummy tuck with lipo before

Since you are not planning to get pregnant for at least 5 years a Tummy tuck can be performed providing that you realize that future pregnancies may disrupt the benefits achieved with the surgery and that another tummy tuck may be needed in the future.

I would advise you to be careful with your weight gain during your future pregnancies. Also, if you are still planning to lose weight, I would suggest that you hold off surgery until you have completed your weight loss. (George Lefkovits, MD, New York Plastic Surgeon)

Tummy tuck or lipo, this is the question?

Abdominoplasty with lipo

Short of an in person examination, I can give you only general advise. I would suggest VASER liposuction of your whole midsection including the back and arms. This will give you dramatic reshaping and skin tightening. I would advise against a tummy tuck now. The worst case scenario is some excess skin in the lower abdomen. This can be removed easily and will leave you with a small C-section type scar. If you have a tummy tuck now, your scar will be longer. It also limits how much fat can be removed with liposuction. See a board certified plastic surgeon, preferable with experience in VASER liposuction. (George Marosan, MD, Bellevue Plastic Surgeon)

In large weight loss patients who are contemplating children in the future, a tummy tuck without tightening of the fascia may be the best option. That way the skin looks much better and the fascia isn’t excessively tightened. As you’ve pointed out, it may be necessary to redo the tummy tuck after children.

The tummy tuck with lipo

It’s best to keep weight gain during pregnancy within a healthy range to prevent problems in pregnancy as well as excessive damage to the abdominal (and other) areas. Many of us have had patients who underwent a tummy tuck and then became pregnant, and had successful deliveries. I suspect the baby makes its own space, but couldn’t prove that tightening the fascia wouldn’t inhibit a borderline pregnancy. (Brent Moelleken, MD, Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon)

It is not clear, the front view, looks for only lipo, but the front view, looks as the skin is without elasticity.May be necessary both, lipo, and a mini-abdominoplasty.

Better result=more scarring, but less scarring choice will leave you (probably) unhappy!

Tummy tuck with lipo photo

Congratulations on your weight loss; keep up the good work and when you reach your ideal weight, the answer will be clear. You already have loose, somewhat stretched skin that will not “snap” back into tautness after additional “deflation” via liposuction fat removal.

Even ultrasonic or laser-assisted lipo cannot tighten the skin from beneath in any way that will be smooth and uniform. Right now, if this was your best-possible weight, liposuction (any variety) will likely leave you with some skin irregularities, ripples, or wrinkling that you will find unattractive, perhaps enough so that you would ask your surgeon what to do about the loose skin.

The answer would be: tummy tuck! So why not skip the unnecessary lipo step and proceed directly to the tummy tuck that you will be best served by, despite the scar and cost.

Scar of tummy tuck with lipo

If you add up the cost of two operations, two times off work or activities, doing a tummy tuck initially is truly the best choice. Except . . . that you’re thinking about a family, which would (probably) wreck a tummy tuck and usually require another tummy tuck when the family is complete. Since having lipo won’t limit your ability to have a tummy tuck later, and you’re willing to have a second operation, this certainly is an option to consider.

However, especially if you continue to lose weight, your abdominal skin will be too loose and lax for a reasonable result with lipo alone (any variety), so I would counsel you to save you money and wait till you’re done with weight loss, pregnancies and weight gain, and re-losing the weight – then have the tummy tuck that will be an obvious choice at that point! For an example of one of my patients who underwent lipo when a tummy tuck was needed, click on the web reference link below. (Richard H. Tholen, MD, FACS, Seattle Plastic Surgeon)

Tummy tuck usually better option than lipo for loose skin

With a history of large weight loss, there is often a degree of skin laxity that can pose a problem with liposuction (of any type.) In that instance a tummy tuck will give the better result. However, since you have not had children you may lose some of the benefit of the tummy tuck with future pregnancies. An in-person consultation with a plastic surgeon who does both liposuction and tummy tucks is the best way to get useful advice. (Richard Baxter, MD, )