Tummy Tuck

Tummy tuck? is a procedure by means of which you will get rid off the excess of skin and fat in the low abdomen and to correct the laxity of the abdominal rectus muscles, so that flatter abdomen be obtained and a silhouette improved.

Tummy Tuck is very useful in people that have a relatively flat abdomen, although with an bulky lower abdomen, as happens in those women that they have had pregnancies, since the skin and the muscles of the abdominal wall relax and they do not possess the force neither the tone due the pregnancy. Depending on the case two intervention types can be carried out:

Complete Abdominoplasty, in which the incision runs above the zone of the pubis is carried out and extends along the abdomen to both hips (line of the bikini).

At the same time, another incision around the belly button is carried out to free it and to be able to place in its new position after have itself removed the excess of skin and grease.

Once done the incision, the fat frees themselves and the skin of the abdominal wall, arriving to the ribs and in this manner, the straight muscles are exposed to work subsequently in them.

Subsequently, the Dr. Cárdenas will tight the muscles of the abdomen by means of sutures, with what improved its silhouette and their waist will be reduced; then is removed the excess of skin and stretches and tense toward the pubis and the belly button? is placed in its new position.? Finally tubes of drainage are placed to avoid collections of liquid and the skin is sutured.

Mini- Lipectomy, in which the procedure is less extensive and only runs the incision above the pubis, the separation of skin and grease to the belly button, the retreat of the excessive skin and fat ?and its suture.