Mini Tummy Tuck

Mini Tummy Tuck

A mini tummy tuck, or partial abdominoplasty, is most beneficial for patients that are within 10% to %15 of their ideal body weight. Mini tummy tuck is much less invasive than full abdominiplasty and can be done on an outpatient basis. Where a full tummy tuck involves an incision around the navel and across the lower abdomen, a mini tummy tuck should leave the navel intact. Mini tummy tuck requires a smaller incision.

In some cases mini tummy tuck is sometimes performed along with liposuction. During this procedure the fat is usually removed from below the navel, tightening muscles from the navel to the pubis. If a person's abdominal muscles require more extensive tightening and the body weight is more than 20% above the ideal weight, your plastic surgeon may suggest recommend a full abdominoplasty. In more drastic instances full tummy tuck along with liposuction is the best way to get the ideal result.

Mini tummy tucks are most useful in a situation were the muscle elasticity is lost in the part of lower abdomen. The partial abdominiplasty focuses on the area below the belly button which is the most frequent place where elasticity is lost Mini tummy tucks are especially effective in correcting problems resulting from pregnancy or when a person has lost weight and can't get back into shape through regular methods..

Candidates for mini tummy tuck

Similarily to full abdominoplasty, the mini tummy tuck addresses muscle flexibility as well as excess skin and fat in the stomach area. The best candidates for mini tummy tuck will have problems that are not severe enough for a typical abdominoplasty but are advanced enough in their state that liposuction is not enough to correct the protruding belly.

In a mini tummy tuck procedure a small incision is made just above the pubis - this allwos the mini abdominiplasty muscle repair and tightening of the extra skin. In some cases the bellybutton is detached from the underlying tissue, then relocated and reattached. This causes most those mini tummy tuck patients to have slightly lower bellybuttons.

The mini tummy tuck provides a good option to full abdominoplasty and liposuction alone. The recovery time is much quicker than with a full tummy tuck, as the mini tummy tuck addresses a singled out area and involves a single and much smaller incision.