Recovery is where a good breast reduction (reduction mammoplasty) result is protected. The operation itself takes a few hours, but the healing process takes months. How you manage the first six weeks affects your comfort, your wound healing, and how your scars settle over the year that follows. Recovery varies
Apronectomy carries one of the higher wound complication rates of any body contouring operation I perform. Published series report overall complication rates ranging from 13.8% in large database reviews to 56% in post bariatric cohorts, with wound healing problems, seroma and infection making up most of that figure rather than
After major weight loss, loose skin tends to settle right around the middle of the body. Not just the front of the abdomen, but the hips, the flanks, the lower back, the mons, and the upper buttocks as well. A body lift (belt lipectomy) is the operation I use to
Why You Stay in Hospital After Extended Abdominoplasty (Tummy Tuck) After significant weight loss, the skin across your abdomen has usually been stretched well beyond what it can recover on its own. Reduced skin elasticity means the excess skin does not retract. The looseness rarely sits neatly at the front.
After significant weight loss, many people are left with loose skin across the abdomen that will not retract on its own. Fleur-de-Lis abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) is one approach I use to remove this excess skin and the fatty tissue that sits with it. It is not a substitute for weight