After pregnancy or as a result of excess weight, whatever the reason may be, the structures in and around your abdomen (waist, hips, hips, thighs, breasts) may be deformed. Fat recovery, cracks, sagging and wrinkling can be solved with sports, diet and creams, but all of them can only be corrected at a time with tummy tuck attempts. Three elements of your body deteriorate at the end of these processes: your abdominal skin, the fat layers under your skin, your abdominal wall and your abdominal muscles. The overgrown abdominal wall forces the body, the muscles stretch and relax. The muscle sheath that connects the muscles in the middle of the abdomen separates and expands with this tension. Although the muscles partially recover, this muscle sheath remains decomposed because it is not flexible, which means camber and swelling in the anterior abdominal wall. Rapid weight gain is an important problem especially after pregnancy. A small part of women lose these weight easily, most of them do not lose it. These fats remain in the abdomen, waist and hips. Especially the fat in the abdomen is resistant to sports and regimen, and cannot be melted easily. Moreover, since the skin cannot recover, relaxation and sagging accompany this situation and the aesthetics of the abdomen is completely disrupted. Abdominoplasty is an effort to reverse these deteriorations. The skin is stretched over the navel and lowered, and a new navel is made. The underlying skin will be removed as excess. The relaxed anterior abdominal wall muscles are tightened. This means that the abdominal wall membrane is folded on itself, narrowed and strengthened with suture techniques similar to hernia surgery. The dose of this narrowing attempt will also narrow and thin your waist. Some of the fat collections will be removed by liposuction. Especially the cracks under the belly button will be removed almost completely with the piece that was cut off. Even if the cracks on the top do not go away, they will lose their old appearance due to the tension and they will become more acceptable and less obvious. In the new tummy tuck concept, the waist and groin areas will be evaluated together as a natural extension of the surgery and a harmonious aesthetic line will be achieved. It should be noted that this intervention is not a treatment for obesity: It is an attempt to correct the results and try to restore them. The cost will be a scar that is longer than your cesarean section, but can be hidden under a swimsuit. You should learn and accept this before surgery. In this whole process, should the problems in the abdominal region, which is the most sensitive point, be considered as a whole or with the neighboring parts of the body and tried to be solved together? Even if the abdomen and waist regions are partially corrected with liposuction, you should see your doctor for a general liposuction in the same session. However, any problem of the breast (sagging, loosening, augmentation, reduction) can be eliminated as an additional surgery in the same session. Similarly, some gynecological surgeries or genital area aesthetics can be added to tummy tuck operations. As a result, tummy tuck operation is a radical and promising intervention in terms of results. And it shouldn’t be an exaggeration to consider what’s left as a gift you can present to your body in terms of tidying up.
Dr.Halil Aksu
Anesthesia and Reanimation
