Tummy Tuck and Mini Tummy Tuck
Abdominal skin removal is really abdominal skin and fat excess removal. A tummy tuck procedure is just that: abdominal skin and fat excess removal. This is a procedure done in the operating room under general anesthesia. The incision is placed at seven centimeters above the vulvar commissure and extends laterally towards the front part of the hip bone. The length of the incision is variable and is adjusted based on the amount of excess skin and fat to be removed. If the patient has mild to moderate skin excess, without significant fat excess that is of concern, a 'mini' abdominal skin and fat removal is performed. This subset of abdominoplasty can in some cases be done under local in the office setting without general anesthesia. This video demonstrates a patient representing a patient with lower abdominal skin excess with little fat excess and a mini abdominal skin and fat excess removal is descr