Patients just don’t always understand just what a tummy tuck procedure entails. Philadelphia area plastic surgeon, Kole Plastic Surgery will help you understand a little more about this subject. At The Kole Plastic Surgery Center Center, we hear the question of why different doctors’ results look so different from others.
The answer to this question is that every patient’s results do look different. The main reason for why tummy tucks look different is the underlying reason of why each patient got their tummy tuck done in the first place.
The biggest reasons that patients get tummy tucks are:
Pregnancy stretching out the abdominal muscles
Weight loss leading to extra loose skin
Both weight loss and pregnancy effect the skin elasticity and underlying abdominal muscles but in differently.
During pregnancy, the female body carries a large amount weight, usually localized in the lower and central abdomen which slowly increases during the pregnancy as the baby gets larger. This extra weight leads to stretching of the abdominal muscles, stretch marks in the skin, and loss of elasticity in the skin leading to looser skin of the abdominal wall.
These problems will not improve with diet or exercise. The muscles of the abdomen will get stronger with sit ups and crunches but will never move closer together. A tummy tuck on the other hand, tightens the underlying muscles of the abdomen to a pre-pregnancy state and excises and removes extra loose skin of the abdominal wall. This leaves a tight flat post-operative contour of your abdomen.
Weight loss works quite differently on the skin of the abdomen. With a steady amount of weight gain over a long period of time, you may develop stretch marks which is an actual tearing of the middle layer of the skin from lack of elasticity. With weight loss, the skin cannot contract back to its pre weight gain state and this results in loose hanging skin (think biggest loser TV show).
A tummy tuck can help solve both the post pregnancy stretching of the muscles and the excess loose skin removal from weight loss or poor elasticity of the skin.
To find out more about the tummy tuck procedure, click here or contact us at The Kole Plastic Surgery Center Center at 215-315-7655 to schedule a complimentary private consultation with Kole Plastic Surgery.
