Why Do Some Women Have Hour Glass Figures After Having Had a Tummy Tuck and Some Women Don't?

A surgeon can do little tweaks here and there to try and get more of a waist to come out but most of the time it really is the shape of the patient that determines the real waistline…Things like spot liposuction, muscle separation suture techniques or differential tightening at the waist all may help, but its kind of like Rhinoplasty…To a large extent, you are given what you get to work with!!!

Your shape following abdominoplasty depends on many factors.  The shape of your ribs, compliance of abdominal wall, shape of pelvis, and distance between lower margin of ribs and iliac crest of pelvis are primary contributors to final shape.  In general, if you have a very short torso and waist is not narrow from view of the back before surgery, it will be more difficult to narrow your shape to an hourglass.  Narrow pelvis also more difficult to achieve hourglass shape.

That's what makes the world go round! It's more the woman's underlying shape though a good plastic surgeon can use some tricks to get closer even with a not-so-ideal body. It's a combination of genes, lifestyle and surgeon.

Women come in all shapes and sizes!  There are many factors that determine a woman’s shape.  A woman that has a longer torso and a greater distance between the rib cage and the hip bone, is more likely to have a more “hour glass figure”. Women with a shorter torso may appear to be a bit thicker in the waist. 

 

There are several factors that can go into getting that beautiful hourglass figure after an abdominoplasty.  A woman's body type is important  but the surgical technique can tremendously enhance the waist line.  This can be done by performing simultaneous liposuction of the hips and waist in conjunction with the tummy tuck.  A tummy tuck is usually very good at flattening the abdominal contour since basically it works by pulling all the skin down and removing the extra tissue that is in front of your body.  This doesn't address the waist very well if you have love handles or any excess tissue on your sides.   By using liposuction to sculpt the waist, this allows for a 3-dimensional contouring of your sides and back in addition to the front that is being shaped by the abdominoplasty.    By combining the techniques you are more likely to achieve that "hour-glass figure".