Best Way to Get Rid of a Pooch?

If you truly have good skin tone, the pooch may be due to subcutaneous fat or muscular wall laxity, or both. If it is a fat issue, liposuction alone is the answer. If the muscular wall is lax, a tummy tuck would be more appropriate. Be sure you discuss your goals with your surgeon and I'm sure he or she should be able to more clearly give you a recommendation. Good Luck!

I often have the same issue with many of my patients. You can absolutely be a candidate for laser-assisted liposuction AND for a tummy tuck. Which procedure is best for you depends entirely on the results you want. I often ask my patients, "6 months after your surgery, whatever it is, what do you need to see in the mirror to make you feel like the whole thing was worth it?" If your answer is "as flat and tight as possible", then you should probably have the tummy tuck.... more

Hi there- I'm not sure how you could simultaneously be a good candidate for a suction procedure and a tummy tuck either... I am aware that some surgeons and device manufacturers tout the laser-based technologies as skin-tightening devices, but my opinion (having used them), is that they are no more effective at producing skin contraction than any other liposuction device. In other words, if skin contraction occurred with Smartlipo, it would have occurred to the same degree with any other form of more