Get the real deal on beauty treatments—real doctors, real reviews, and real photos with real results.Here's how we earn your trust.
Although we would ideally like you to be as close to your goal weight as possible prior to your tummy tuck, losing an additional 15lbs after shouldn't significantly affect your results. What's most important is maintaining your weight and living a healthy lifestyle so you can continue to enjoy the benefits of your new body. Best of luck!
An abdominoplasty deals with excess skin excess fat and abdominal wall laxity. Weight loss after correction of these issues will not significantly affect the results.
I wouldn't be too concerned about loosing weight after your tummy tuck; especially that amount. Your skin will likely fit your new figure quite well since a tummy tuck gives you a tight tailoring. I think it's always a good idea to achieve your ideal weight if that is your goal.
Losing a small amount of weight like 15 pounds after a tummy tuck will only improve your results. Problems with more loose skin will not occur unless you lose a lot of weight (50 pounds or more).
Losing 15 pounds after tummy tuck will not affect your result to any great degree. This may improve your result.
On some individuals 15 pounds could make a difference and on others it will make no difference. It all depends upon your existing skin elasticity. Fortunately the fist 10 pounds is usually intra-abdominal or visceral fat and should help to make your abdomen even flatter.
It is ideal be at or near your ideal weight prior to any body contouring procedure. Depending on your age. skin condition and overall weight loss (is it all over or concentrated in your midsection your skin may or be less taught after weight loss
15 pounds of weight loss is not likely to affect your outcome in a negative way. Furthermore, in the unlikely event that it does, it is not irreversible--if it is bad enough you can correct it by gaining the weight back. Go for it. Best wishes.
Thank you for the question. Generally speaking, best to achieve your long-term stable weight ( and maintain it afterwards) prior to proceeding with tummy tuck surgery. Having said that, it is unlikely that a 15 pound weight loss will negatively impact the end results of the procedure. Best wishes.
A 15 pound weight loss following your tummy tuck should have minmal effect on your result. If this does result in a small amount of loose skin, it likely could be improved with a little procedure under local anesthesia.
I do surgery for out-of-town patients regularly, but only when follow-up is possible according to my recommendations. I see all tummy tuck patients the next morning to check for bleeding, suture line intactness, and circulation to the umbilicus and lower abdominal flap. If something needs to be...
Worrisome signs for infection after surgery would be increasing pain, foul smelling drainage, redness, swelling, fevers, chills, etc.. Good luck.
I think most plastic surgeons would agree that 6 weeks after tummy tuck in cases of uncomplicated wound healing is a reasonable length of time to wait until resuming exercise. Obviously, patients should ease back into exercise to assess tolerance.
There are two ways to know if there is a significant belly button hernia. That is to have your surgeon feel the area and to have a CT scan.
Many plastic surgeons will try to raise the wound edges initially during surgery so that as the wounds heal and scar contraction occurs, the scar tends to flatten. The gathering at the ends of your incision was designed to limit the length of the scar. Both should improve...
The findings that you describe are extremely common following pregnancy. During pregnancy, the abdominal wall becomes stretched by the rapid expansion of the intra-abdominal contents.In many cases, this results in separation of the paired rectus muscles which results in a midline separation...
What’s trending? Who’s turning heads? Which TikTok myths need busting? We’ve got you. No fluff, no gatekeeping—just real talk. Get our free, unfiltered newsletter.