Tummy Tuck Surgery

WEBVTT 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:11.200 Patients, after losing a great amount of weight, 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:19.640 the muscles separate because the tendon that keeps them together gets stretched. 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:25.740 The only way to repair those muscles is by doing something called a tummy tuck. 00:00:25.765 --> 00:00:33.460 We need to join the muscles again, but also the skin stretches at the same time. 00:00:33.485 --> 00:00:37.420 Those two things are not going to be fixed only with lipo. 00:00:37.445 --> 00:00:42.740 We need to remove the excess of skin and also repair the muscles. 00:00:42.765 --> 00:00:47.320 When we do a tummy tuck we do a new belly button. 00:00:47.345 --> 00:00:53.360 I try to leave the scar in the belly button as down as possible, so it's not 00:00:53.385 --> 00:00:57.780 visible after the procedure, or it's difficult to see. 00:00:57.805 --> 00:01:03.820 At the same time, the skin stretches in the abdominal area, 00:01:03.845 --> 00:01:09.410 the venous months also in the pubic area falls down. 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:14.800 We need not only to remove the excess of skin in the abdomen, we also need to lift 00:01:14.825 --> 00:01:19.820 the excess of skin in the pubic area. 00:01:19.845 --> 00:01:25.850 If you have certain amount of fat collections around your waist, 00:01:25.880 --> 00:01:28.540 the tummy tuck is not going to fix that. 00:01:28.565 --> 00:01:34.100 That's why we need to do or add the liposuction to 00:01:34.125 --> 00:01:41.060 improve the waist and the lower back, maybe also to give certain 00:01:41.085 --> 00:01:42.320 volume to the butt. 00:01:42.345 --> 00:01:49.570 We normally call this the Brazilian butt lift, to give a nice contour. 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:53.760 It's not only the abdominal hole, it's the whole area. 00:01:54.040 --> 00:02:01.180 It's important that patients must consider that the result is not achieved 00:02:01.205 --> 00:02:08.020 immediately after the surgery because it takes time for the body to recover from 00:02:08.045 --> 00:02:16.100 the inflammation process to the volume that inflammation disappears, 00:02:16.125 --> 00:02:24.680 it's around maybe two months when you begin to see the result. 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:31.480 But the final result of any procedure is after a year, so you're going to 00:02:31.505 --> 00:02:34.060 have changes during the whole year. 00:02:34.085 --> 00:02:38.240 So don't expect that final result until that time.