What is the difference between a tummy tuck and abdominal liposuction?
Liposuction (whatever method is used) primarily removes fat from below the skin surface and provides a moderate amount of skin tightening due to scar contracture. A Tummy Tuck does several things: • Removes abdominal skin that is in excess, and resets the tone to the remaining skin • Removes some fat from the abdomen • Redistributes skin and fat from the upper abdomen to the lower, effectively thinning the abdominal wall skin/fat thickness • Tightens the abdominal wall musculature, which flattens the stomach from the side view as well as pulls in the waist to improve the “hour glass” shape Very simply, the tummy tuck reverses the changes caused by childbearing, and is typically the appropriate operation for mothers or individuals who have undergone significant weight fluctuation. Liposuction is for fat contouring in individuals who have resistant areas of localized fat and also have good skin tone. If skin tone is bad (skin that is lax or has stretch marks), the results from liposuctio
