Jacksonville Tummy Tuck doctors

Hi there-

This is a lot easier to understand (and I feel my patients are a lot more likely to follow instructions they understand) if we review a little science...

Human scars (including those in your muscle layer from the repair performed during your tummy tuck) typically take about 6 weeks to achieve 90% of their maximum strength. In other words, after 6 weeks, your scars are 90% as strong as they are ever going to be, with a little increase in strength occurring over the next year or so.

No scars are ever as strong as un-scarred, healthy tissue, so even though they are 90% as strong as they are going to get, this is still only a fraction of the strength of normal tissue (maybe this is the explanation for what you saw?).

Because 90% of the scar's strength is achieved at 6 weeks, and because further increases in strength are minor and occurring at a much slower rate, the majority of well-trained and experienced, Board Certified Plastic Surgeons allow their patients to gradually return to exercise beginning at 6 weeks.

Hi there-

You look like a great candidate for a tummy tuck (abdominoplasty). The details of the procedure vary from patient to patient, and from surgeon to surgeon to some degree, and so I wouldn't want to speak for the surgeon you choose...

On the other hand, I think that as long as you find a skilled and talented surgeon, you should expect to have a flat tummy with elimination of at least all of the stretch marks below your belly button.

Choosing the best surgeon you can find is the key- this is not a time in your life where being penny wise and pound foolish would be an acceptable error...

Visit a few excellent surgeons for consultations. 

Also- I really don't see that you have more weight to lose--- I think what remains is just the body changes resulting from being a mother- and that after your tummy tuck you won't feel you need to lose any more weight.