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Tummy tuck surgery abroad
- Tummy tuck surgery
- Additional Information
- About Tummy tuck
- Before and After Surgery
- Keeping Your Firm Tummy
- Duration of the surgery: 2 - 5 hours
- Inpatient/outpatient: Depends on the extent of the surgery. Usually an inpatient stay is necessary for a few days.
- Anesthesia: General anaesthesia.
- Recovery: Long-term. You should take at least two weeks off from school or work. You should wait up to six weeks with strenuous activities.
- Possible side effects: Temporary swelling, aching, numbness in the incision area.
- Scars: The scars are permanent. They may be startling at first, but they become less visible and smoother in about a year.
- Risks: Like with every major surgery, this also includes risks such as haemorrhage, infection, scar tissue and reaction to anaesthesia. Possible risks also include haematoma and slow recovery (if you smoke).
- Results: Permanent, if you keep your weight stable.
- Price: 35,000 - 44,520 kroons
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Beautiful Flat Stomach
Tummy tuck can help both men and women, who are in a good shape in general, but are disturbed by their protruding abdomen, which will not disappear even with a strict diet or exercising. Tummy tuck can also help women, whose abdominal muscles and skin have been stretched with pregnancies and cannot get it back to shape; but also those who have lost considerable weight and whose skin is sagging. It is usual that people plump out and lose the suppleness of their skin when growing older - tummy tuck can help! Tummy tuck is an extensive surgery that removes excessive fat and skin from the abdomen and also tightens the muscles. You can change and correct your appearance considerably with this procedure and thus also boost your self-confidence. The technique can vary depending on the concrete problem. In some cases fat has accumulated all over the abdomen, in some only below the navel. You can have a full or a mini tummy tuck depending on that.
Tummy tuck surgery abroad
The surgery will be performed under general anesthesia; the incisions will be marked on the abdomen. The surgeon will make a long and slightly V-shaped incision from one hipbone to the other above the pubic bone on the abdomen, during a full tummy tuck. The second incision will be around the navel so it could be moved later. After making the incision the surgeon will remove the skin from the abdominal wall and reveal the vertical muscles (the rectus abdominis muscle). Next, the surgeon will pull the muscles closer together and fix them to their new position with stitches. This kind of tightening leaves a more accentuated look and makes the waist more slender. Then the surgeon will tighten and remove excess skin. Stretch marks might look better after tightening the skin, the stretch marks below the navel will be removed with the excess skin. If necessary, the surgeon will then remove excess fat. The surgeon might use liposuction for this. Finally the navel is repositioned. The surgeon will stitch the incisions after your abdomen has been corrected. A surgical drain will be placed, to discharge excess fluids, if the tummy tuck is more extensive. The surgeon will put bandages on your wounds and will help you put on special compression underwear. The incision will be much smaller with a mini tummy tuck and the navel usually stays in the same place. The procedure includes only the area between the incision and navel. Excess skin and fat are removed (liposuction could also be used) and the incision will be stitched.
Additional Information about tummy tuck
Tummy tuck can reduce your abdomen considerably, but at the same time leaves noticeable scars, which usually will be in the bikini area. A lot depends on the concrete patient. You should postpone the tummy tuck, if you plan to lose weight considerably. This also applies to women, who plan to get pregnant again, since it could stretch the muscles and skin once again. Tummy tuck doesn't replace a diet nor regular exercising!
Pre-surgery and post-surgery advice abroad
The surgeon will evaluate your state of health and your abdomen. He or she will also look at your medical history and will give you guidelines on what to eat before the surgery or which medications or vitamins to take. It is extremely important to follow these guidelines to prevent complications and speed up recovery. For example, giving up smoking is especially important to postoperative recovery. The incision area might ache and feel uncomfortable after the surgery. You should supply yourself with painkillers before the surgery. Sutures on the skin will be removed in about a week, deeper sutures in a few weeks' time. You must keep the wound dry and wear the supportive underwear during recovery. The scar might get worse at first, but it will start to become lighter and smoother. It will not disappear completely. You should try silicone plaster for your scar. You should wait about six weeks with strenuous activities and exercising, at the same time moderate (and comfortable, not painful) exercising helps to recover. For example walking is good for you. You should avoid sauna and direct UV-radiation.
Taking care of your tummy
People become dissatisfied with their abdomen only if it has grown so larger due to obesity that it is difficult to do some things, for example to tie your shoe laces. Fat abdomen is mostly a problem for apple-shaped people, who tend to store fat around the fat cells in the abdomen area. There are many reasons for getting obese. As a general rule, you start to gain weight if you get more energy than you can work off. The reasons include eating too fatty foods, overeating, eating disorders (bulimia) and metabolic diseases, but hereditary factors as well. One of the first steps to curing obesity is changing your lifestyle. You should try to work off more energy and observe what and how much you eat. The results of diets, weight loss pills and fasting are short-lived, especially if you continue with an unhealthy lifestyle afterwards. You should not have a tummy tuck hoping to get a slender abdomen for the rest of your life. It does not replace dieting or exercising. On the contrary: to maintain your postoperative "new", firm and flat abdomen, you have to work harder. It is important to keep your weight stable with the right diet and exercises. Exercising helps to speed up recovery and accentuate the tightened muscles more. You can start exercising as soon as the surgeon says so and you feel better. Tummy tuck can change your appearance considerably, but it is not meant for losing weight. There are other ways to lose weight: a healthy diet, exercising, special diets, etc. You should consider a tummy tuck, if your abdomen is unnaturally large compared to the rest of the body and neither dieting nor exercising works. Furthermore, no gel or lotion can make sagging and drooping skin look good - excess skin can only be removed surgically.