Waist Again - Grand Rapids, MI

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David R. Alfonso, MD, FACS
David R. Alfonso, MD, FACS
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
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17 Months after TT and did not get the results I was expecting.

  • 21 Aug 2014
  • 1 year post
It's been 17 months since my TT surgery. I was thinking when I went for this surgery that I'd have a nice flat abdomon and nice waist with definition between my waist & my hips and that did not happen. My Dr. did not tell me until my 6 mos. post op surgery (when I asked) that the fat/thickness in my abdomon is actually under my muscle and could not be lipoed out. He said I'd need diet & expercise to flatten this area out, I've never been able to get rid of this thickness-no matter how much dieting & exercising I do. I now know from my GP that this is actually caused from non-alcoholic fatty liver. So I'm starting the process of Gastric Sleeve (hopefully in Sept 2014) to lose the 65-75# I need to lose for my health issues and hopefully that'll take care of my fatty liver & thick abdomon. I'm not sure I would of had the TT if I'd know I was going to have less than perfect results. Hopefully with losing the weight I will someday have the waist that I've only dreamed about.

Doctors before & after pictures

  • 20 Sep 2013
  • 6 months post
I LOVE the before & after pictures side by side...they really tell the story. I'm far from thin but having all that excess "flab" gone and everything tighter & flatter is a dream come thru. I have to continue to work on the fat under the muscle on the abdomon. This area is unable to be liposuctioned and has to be shrunk with diet & exercise only.

6 mos. photos continued

  • 20 Sep 2013
  • 6 months post
More pictures I took/and hubby took at 6 mos. post TT.

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David R. Alfonso, MD, FACS
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
2155 E. Paris Ave., Grand Rapids, Michigan
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  • 14 Mar 2013

Dr. Alfonso has been wonderful all the way thru my breast reduction and after. He told me at my last appointment that if I was unhappy with my middle (who wouldn't be) there were procedures to fix it. I attended an open house the practice had, researched on this sight and the more I researched the more I knew I wanted to have those "after" photos where my stomach was flat. At their open house I scheduled a consultation for yesterday. I hadn't made up my mind (on tummy tuck) until I got into the office asking for liposuction and finding out that would not be enough to give me a flat stomach, waist and tight skin at my age-58 yrs..