Tummy Tuck Before & After Case 2

This is a 58-year-old female in excellent health who had pregnancies and weight gain and loss. She had become unhappy with her inability to obtain a flatter stomach with exercise and diet. She disliked the hanging flap of skin on her abdomen. Her abdominal muscles, the rectus abdominus, had stretched apart and separated and regardless of the number of sit ups performed or how many hours she would spend at the gym, the abdominal wall would not tighten.

Her goal was to reduce the excess skin of her abdomen and to obtain a better contour. She underwent an abdominoplasty with tightening of her abdominal muscles. An ellipse of skin below the belly button was excised and this led to her obtaining a much more youthful appearance allowing her to fit into her clothes with much more ease.