Why Does my Tummy Get So Tight After I Laugh?

Thank you for your question. First you will start out with a consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon. You will be physically evaluated to see if you are a good candidate for a TT. If you are a smoker, you will be asked to stop smoking well in advance of surgery. Aspirin and certain ...

After 6 months, most of the healing has completed and durability restored to the entire abdomen. There may be additional softening and fading in your scars, and of course there may be more sensation as cutaneous nerves heal and regenerate, but the muscle repair has reached a point that any kind...

Though the majority of plastic surgeons use abdominal binders or compression garments after tummy tucks, I am not aware of a randomized study comparing results, complications, and patient comfort between binder and no-binder groups. Obviously, there are surgeons who prefer to use scientific...

Your wound is very clean with a good bed of what is called granulation tissue.  Wounds heal by two processes. One is contracture which is what has to happen to bring the wound together.  Two is epithelization which occurs once the two edges of the scar are much closer together...

A high scar tummy tuck is unfortunate and not necessary. Now that the scar is there; however, I recommend the first thing you do is to wait one year for all the healing to take place and for the scar to fade to a more white color. Right now, it is red and it is the color that is bothering you...

Smoking brings a significant risk of cancer, stroke, heat attack, etc. From a Plastic Surgery standpoint it is a vasoconstrictor. Wound healing is all about getting oxygen and needed entities to the wound. It is well known that patient who smoke have a tremendous increase in their rate of...