Tummy Tuck for Men and Women

For many of us we work out every day, we eat right, and we just cannot seem to get the body we are striving for. Well, the problem is not always entirely purely physical.

Sometimes stubborn body weight is caused by genetic or simply biological problems. For instance, men find it particularly difficult to lose weight around their bellies. For both genders even those who do find that it is hard after the loss of weight to tone and tighten the excess flesh that has accumulated where the heft used to lie. Fortunately for those who are afflicted with excess skin after weight loss or just a difficult time making their mid section look as fit as they feel there is a solution called tummy tuck.

When going in to have a tummy tuck it is incredibly important that the patient knows what to expect. This procedure, technically called abdominoplasty, involves a number of different procedures that work to flatten and contour the waist. Sometimes this simply means removing or reshaping fat and skin but often it means reshaping and tightening the muscles that underlie this area. For many people diet and exercise are insufficient to reshape this part of the body. For them the only solution is surgical and that means talking to a plastic surgeon.

When discussing the potential for a tummy tuck with a plastic surgeon it is important to bring up any possible risks that may occur. These may include paralysis of some or all of the muscles of the trunk or in some instances serious infection. There is additionally a risk of death associated with the use of anesthetics like those that would be used during this sort of surgery. While all of these complications are rare it is a poor doctor who is remiss in mentioning the potential for negative consequences. A large part of knowing what may happen is knowing what exactly will be taking place during the surgery.

Generally speaking a tummy tuck involves a surgeon putting a horizontal incision above the pubic area but below where it may be exposed by low riding pants. The deal with plastic surgery is that it is meant to make us look better but the less noticeable it is the better. That is why doctors aim to hide the area where they have done the work so that their patients not only look phenomenal the also look like they were born as beautiful as they look in their swimsuit.

The need for discretion is not limited to women however. Men actually carry more weight in their abdomens and so that leads to them finding that regardless of how much they work out or how many crunches they do they are still destined to carry a large amount of weight around their waists. For them the utilization of incision scars beneath the waistline allows them to have six pack abs without an insane amount of exercise but also without needing to advertise the fact that they sought a medical solution to their excess weight problem.