If you are a suitable patient, you can achieve the body beauty you desire with a tummy tuck. One of the most important components of a beautiful and aesthetic body is a proportionally thin waist and a flat abdomen with a taut appearance. With tummy tuck surgery, abdominal sagging and the skin of the belly area, which is layered in some patients, is flattened. In addition, with the tummy tuck procedure, your stretch marks remaining in the area to be removed, especially around and under the belly button, disappear. In the tummy tuck operation, your abdominal muscle membrane, which has become loose due to pregnancy and / or excess weight gain and loss, and your middle abdominal muscles (Rectus diastasis), which are separated to the sides, can be tightened with special stitches and a flat and taut abdominal appearance can be obtained.
Patients who smoke at least 3 weeks before the tummy tuck procedure should quit smoking. (Attention! intensive smoking can cause wound healing problems.) According to the differences of the abdominal deformities of the patients (according to the excess of sagging tissue, the amount of fat accumulation and the presence of abdominal muscle membrane loosening-separation...), it can be performed with different techniques and therefore there is no standard incision length for this surgery. It can vary from patient to patient. Your doctor will explain what is best for you and inform you in detail.
The scars left after surgery are often quite thin and although they are red and dark at first, they turn pale or close to skin color in the long term and become barely noticeable.
In patients with a small amount of excess skin and sagging, especially below the level of the belly button, abdominal aesthetic surgery (mini abdominoplasty) can be performed with a scar that will be on the pubic hairy area but will extend shorter towards the sides, and this procedure is also a tummy tuck procedure.
In addition, in patients with a small amount of excess fat tissue and skin sagging, but especially in patients with abdominal wall laxity due to childbirth, the appearance of the abdominal area can be rejuvenated and beautified by endoscopically stretching the abdominal muscle membrane and applying fat suction procedures (liposuction) and abdominal tightening with much shorter scars.
Regardless of the method used, the success of the aesthetic results is increased by liposuction (fat suction) to be applied to various areas in the surgical area together with abdominoplasty.
Abdominal aesthetic surgeries, which can also be applied for sagging abdomen of male patients, are performed under general anesthesia and the average operation time is 2-4 hours.
Mostly after tummy tuck surgery, 1-2 hoses coming out from the lower part of your suture and “drain” at the ends (derived from the French word “drain” and means to empty, to drain. In Turkish, it means “drain”.) You can see plastic medical materials called “drains”. These are used to prevent the accumulation of blood and other tissue fluids at the operation site.
You do not need to be afraid, they do not hurt too much during removal and you can take a bath 1 day after removal.
After the tummy tuck operation, you will be discharged within 1-2 days and if possible, you can lie with your feet and head elevated for a few weeks and walk with a slight forward bend for 7-10 days. An abdominal corset is used for 4-6 weeks. Generally, resting for 7-10 days is sufficient and patients return to their daily lives with their corsets. After 3-4 weeks, they can do sports except for exercises that will strain the abdominal area such as sit-ups, but heavy exercises are prohibited for 6 weeks.
The above-mentioned periods are mostly written with the full tummy tuck procedure in mind and the periods may vary depending on the technique to be used.
Although the effects of tummy tuck surgery are permanent, patients should keep fit by eating healthy and doing sports. Because excessive postoperative weight gain and/or pregnancy (which is possible and harmless for the baby or mother) may adversely affect the aesthetic results. In addition, these procedures never prevent the patient from becoming pregnant and do not have any negative effect on pregnancy.
In the period after tummy tuck surgery, it is not very painful thanks to the long-acting painkillers used, but pain levels vary between patients and can be controlled with medications.
Tummy tuck aesthetic prices vary due to many variables (the technique to be applied and its difficulty, the anesthesia to be used, the hospital where the surgery will be performed, etc.) and for the most accurate prices, please ask your doctor for information about the prices of tummy tuck operation.
In the short term after the surgery, fluid accumulation in the surgical field and in the long term, the problem of enlargement and swelling of the scars can be seen. These are rare complications with solutions.
Dear patients, you may hear conflicting information about tummy tuck from your environment, but the right thing is to always follow the advice of your doctor who performed your surgery.