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Will a Mini Tummy Tuck Be Enough to Get Rid of Excess Skin from Pregnancy? (photo)
5'2 130lbs Muscular 3 children I am worried about being down and out for weeks.
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Mini tummy tuck advantages
Mini tummy tuck advantages will depend greatly on what procedures your mini tummy tuck includes. Skin excision only, skin tightening with Cellulaze only ( see CellulazeCenterOf NY.com) for more information, or either or both of these combined with abdominal muscle was repair.
Abdominal muscle repair and tightening will require the longest recovery time 8-10 weeks before returning to strenuous, full and unrestricted activities like power sit-up or rock climb. Other less...
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Tummy Tuck or Minitummy Tuck
Tummy tuck is far superior for your concerns. Although a scar is involved, a short scar tummy tuck has the same length scar as a minitummy tuck but removes skin above the belly button and tightens your muscle. Find the plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of tummy tucks each year. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
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Mini VS Full Tummy Tuck
Without more photos of different views of your abdomen, it's difficult to say but without a physical exam, it looks as if you would benefit from a full abdominoplasty with liposuction to your waist/flanks. If you need muscle tightening, that can be determined at your physical exam and be done at the same time as your tummy tuck. It would be a shame to waste your valuable recovery time on a procedure that you may be unhappy with. Do it right the first time can save you more...
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Mini or Full Tummy Tuck?
Thanks for the question and picture.
Although your concern about recovery time is understandable, please be careful that you undergo the best operation possible; otherwise you may be disappointed and potentially require additional surgery.
Although precise advice would require in-person examinations some general thoughts may be helpful to you.In my opinion, the mini tummy tuck is an operation that produces very limited results and is very rarely...
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Will a Mini Tummy Tuck Be Enough to Get Rid of Excess Skin from Pregnancy? (photo)
It's hard to tell from just one photo but I would think that you would do better with a Full tummy tuck.....I would also combine it with some Lipo of the tummy as well if you want a more aggressive result with your tummy but just the 5 centimeters of skin removal may not be enough....The recovery is a lot but the result is bigger too....
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Mini vs full TT
From the pictureyou submitted, it seems you have significant stretch marks on the lower abdomen. It also seems that your belly button is realtively high on your abdomen and the stretch marks extend above the belly button which may make their complete removal impossible. You don't have too much extra skin, however I don't think a mini-tummy tuck will be worth the results. I'd either do a full tummy tuck or nothing. Just my opinion. A better more complete...
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Will a Mini Tummy Tuck Be Enough
The skin changes from your pregnancy extend up to and a little above the bellybutton. It would take a full TT to correct this to the best possible result. Mini TTs are rarely a good choice, and a significant numbe of those patients later wind up back in surgery to complete the job.
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Mini Tummy Tuck, Liposuction or Zerona™
The only way to tell what you need between a full tummy tuck, a mini tummy tuck and liposuction is with a direct examination and measurement of the excess skin both above and below the umbilicus. While you may, indeed, have excess skin, it does not show on the picture. You appear to have mainly stretch marks and a little extra fat. Nothing will help the stretch marks, but the fat could be treated with liposuction or Zerona™. See a board certified Plastic Surgeon who can offer...
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Mini tummy tuck results
A mini tummy tuck removes a small amount of skin (think 2 inches or so above the pubic hairline). Most women after childbearing have a lot of skin excess most obvious when you bend over. Mini-abdominoplasty surgery would be a major under-correction of your skin redundancy. If you want your abdomen flat, and you are looking for considerable improvement in the skin excess, you will be disappointed in the results of a "mini" procedure which equals a "mini" result. Recovery is close to 2 weeks...
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Will a Mini Tummy Tuck Be Enough to Get Rid of Excess Skin from Pregnancy
It would be better to answer this based on a physical exam, but it looks like you might a one of the occasional patients for whom a mini-TT would be a good choice. It provides no treatment to the upper abdomen, so there must be little or no upper skin laxity or abdominal wall laxity. That may be the situation based only upon this one photo.
Best would be a consultation with a plastic surgeon. RealSelf has listings of surgeons in your area. You should consider cross...
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