How can I tighten the skin around my stomach?

I had my child 6 yrs ago. I'm still real skinny from my pregnancy.

2 answers to “How can I tighten the skin around my...”

A: Surgery is the only significantly effective treatment

Richard P. Rand, MD

Titan, Thermage and other non-surgical therapies have been applied to looose tummy skin.  Patients are almost universally disappointed in the minimal improvements from these rather expensive treatments.  Tummy tucks and mini tummy tucks remain the only truly effective modes of treating the lax abdomen.

A: Very few options for tightening the skin without surgery

Otto Joseph Placik, MD

There is no easy way to tighten skin. If we could figure out a way, we would not have to perform face lifts, breast lifts, tummy tucks, thigh lifts, eye lifts, etc. Although there are many procedures and technologies that claim to tighten the skin such as thermage, titan, accent , etc. Generally these... more

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