Intraoperative Imaging Blog

When you have decided to undergo surgery such as abdominoplasty must consider several aspects that determine the decision of your surgeon to submit (a) – or not the operation.

These are the basic characteristics of good candidates for tummy tuck operation:
* That is more than 18 years
* Have a good shape and its silhouette is relatively pleasing, except for the flaccid abdomen, with excess skin and fat. It is important to note that this is not a surgery to address obesity and particularly when a disease (see chapter on morbid obesity). The abdominoplasty is geared specifically to eliminate imperfections in the abdominal area which themselves do not agree with a person’s body harmony. When an overweight should be made an integral work to lower and then you might consider abdominoplasty to solve the problems that arise sagging after weight loss.
* That the patient has sufficient maturity to understand the proceedings. Usually it comes to surgery when taken other measures, such as exercise, diet, and aesthetic programs without achieving the most satisfactory results for him, according to their living conditions.
* In case of women is vital that, first, are not pregnant, and second, with no plans to close pregnancies, because a new period of gestation can completely ruin the outcome of the surgery. The best advice I usually give plastic surgeons is that women undergo this surgery after having taken the decision not to bear more children, that is when, voluntarily, are terminated their reproduction period. The current trend in this regard is that women have on average two or three pregnancies and after the last choose to have tubal ligation to prevent another. But it is an absolutely individual decision and that no one other than the partner, must intervene, not even your gynecologist or family doctor, except when a subsequent pregnancy might jeopardize the life or health of the patient.
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