I had a tummy tuck 1 year and 3 months ago and have purchased the FasciaBlaster for my body and abs? Is this okay?

Although nausea can occur with any post operative patient the anesthesia these days is great as far as prophylactically preventing nausea with medication. That being said some patients do still experience nausea, so you might not want to risk it. Talk to your doctor about alternatives for the...

The suture material for the muscle repair usually is non absorbable, so the suture can hold the tissues long enough while the scar tissue gets strong to hold the muscle in place. In some patients that have had a lot of stretching in the abdominal wall such like a twin pregnancy, the muscles on...

If you do hundreds of belly buttons and tummy tucks a year, you run into this issue due to previous hernia repair and umbilical devascularization.  Neoumbilicoplasty can be performed in a variety of ways.  For a full tummy tuck, the umbilicus must remain attached to the abdominal wall to ma...

It is normal to have a decreased appetite after tummy tuck and also feeling full sooner than you did before having a tummy tuck.  Surgery and anesthesia in itself can decrease your appetite for a week or more.  The tightening of the abdominal muscle which is performed during a tummy...

During a tummy tuck, the muscles are frequently tightened. This is important since the rectus (six pack) muscles spread apart during pregnancy- essentially we are "synching down the corset." Patients will experience a sense of tightness for several weeks. The skin will also feel tight in the...

Dear JRB.   I have been in practice for 30 years and performed tummy tuck on well over 1000 patients. Only one patient (male) had skin tightening only, tummy tuck. The rest of my patients had skin and muscle tightening tummy tuck surgery, because it is extremely rare to see patients after c...