Hello,

I’m Aesthetic Surgeon Dr. Serdar Bora Bayraktaroğlu.

This week’s cosmetic surgery is “Abdominoplasty!”

Abdominoplasty is one of the operations I often perform and love.

This surgery is very successful in terms of its results, especially after dramatic weight loss.

What is Abdominoplasty?

Sagging occurs as a result of intense and rapid weight loss such as birth, weight loss, sleeve stomach surgery, or loosening due to aging and similar reasons in our abdominal region.

Here, we call the surgical procedure abdominoplasty in which we do to eliminate these sagging and make our abdomen look thinner and tighter.

The surgery was performed to eliminate deformities caused by weight gain and loss over the age of 50 years and due to aging, as in this patient.

The result is perfect!

Abdominoplasty is important. A healthy and fit abdomen is very important in human psychology and social status. Because a lean, flat, and tight abdomen is one of the indicators of being healthy today.

Patients with complaints of sagging and fattening in the abdomen should not wear clothes with open belly or narrow belly. Again, these people feel uncomfortable with the abdominal areas sagging while hanging out on the beach. In addition, they try to hide their abdomen with a corset when they wear an evening dress.

In fact, tummy tuck surgery is planned individually as in many plastic surgery surgeries.

It is planned according to the sagging rate of the person, skin structure, and amount of fat. This makes it imperative that the surgery should be personalized.

Will Vaser liposuction alone result in abdominal liposuction, laser liposuction, or radiofrequency energy liposuctions?

In fact, limited liposuction procedures in slightly sagging and partially fatty abdomens tighten the abdominal area by thinning it but we cannot move a loose, hollow, or excessively fatty abdomen to a tighter point just by liposuction. When we vent the excessive air from an inflated balloon, you see that the balloon loosens, actually, this principle applies to human tissue. Excessive fat removal from the abdomen may not only tighten it but also increase loosening.

If you plan to undergo abdominoplasty for aging and other reasons, we can schedule the procedure at any time. However, if I plan the abdominoplasty for someone who has undergone sleeve gastrectomy, I will make sure that they reach their final weight. So I perform the surgery on patients who have stopped losing weight and are now stable at this weight.

Abdominoplasty surgeries can be performed as full abdominoplasty surgery and mini-abdominoplasty. The belly button of the patient is also moved and reconstructed during the full abdominoplasty procedure. It is especially applied to patients with the intensely sagging abdomen. Half or mini abdominoplasty is the procedure performed only in cases where there is no sagging in the belly button and above, and only sagging under the belly button. Mini abdominoplasty doesn’t rebuild the belly button.

I repair and tighten not only the abdominal skin but also the abdominal wall in abdominoplasty if necessary.

I add a Vaser liposuction procedure if necessary. We call it lipo-abdominoplasty in that case. You will get a thinner waist and abdomen with this Vaser liposuction procedure.

• First of all, we have preparatory procedures before the operation. My clinic follows your process by giving you all the instructions.

.   Aspirin, painkillers, or herbal products with blood-thinning properties are discontinued a week prior.

• Again, I want you to stop smoking and drinking 1 week before the operation.

Now, about the surgery process:

I perform the surgery under general anesthesia.

I remove excess sagging and loosening skin from the abdomen.  I do it with an incision under the abdomen. I remove the excess fat tissue from the abdominal region of the waist with Vaser liposuction when performing this procedure if necessary. Thus, we reach the conclusion not only of a firm abdomen but also of a thinner abdomen.

This takes approximately 2 hours.

I enable the patient to enjoy the result of a comfortable surgery by hiding the incisions made at the lower abdominal border in the bikini line.

There is a significant positive difference before and after the surgery as seen in this patient.

Your abdomen revises and tightens.

The patient can wear clothes that show the abdomen, which provides psychological comfort.

Recovery is achieved by rapidly returning to normal life after the surgery.

Abdominoplasty is part of the body sculpture and is very important.

You can use it with pleasure for life if performed correctly.

However, of course, it is important for you to take care of yourself without gaining weight and doing sports so that you can live with the results of this surgery for many years.

What happens after the operation?

• You’ll be staying at the hospital overnight after the operation.

.   You sleep with your back slightly upright and your legs bent.

.   We’ll come and discharge you the next day. There are small tubes in your abdomen called drainage that allow us to remove excess fluid from the inside. I’ll remove these drainages at the first checkup.

• There is no suture removal in this procedure because the sutures I put in the surgery are meltable sutures.

.  You wear the corset I gave you during surgery for three weeks.

. Then, of course, you return to your social life with care.

. You walk forward so that the sutures in your abdomen are not burdened in the early days. You start standing up straight in four or five days.

You can return to your daily life one week after the surgery.  You can start sports except for abdominal movements after three weeks. All sports activities are permitted after six weeks.

How long will the results of the operation last?

• You can enjoy the results of this process for years. But the thing to remember is that as we continue to age, there may be a little loosening over time.
• Unfortunately, the result of the surgery may be adversely affected if you gain and lose weight quickly and intensively again.

Will there be a scar?

The incisions I hid in the bikini line diminish and fade over time. Abdominoplasty is not a scar-free surgery, but since the scars are hidden in your natural grooves, their prominence is weak and they are barely noticeable from the front.

This surgery, which gains abdominal fineness and tightness, is a very strong procedure in terms of its results despite your scar. Because no other procedure reveals these results as clearly as abdominoplasty.

For this reason, it is a surgery that I recommend and perform with great pleasure.

Combined Therapy

I can do this surgery on my own and as a part of body shaping. At that time, I can simultaneously plan Vaser liposuction or breast aesthetics in addition to abdominoplasty with Vaser liposuction or breast aesthetics with my patient.

A brief overview of abdominoplasty:

Anesthesia: General anesthesia

Technique: Removal of excess fat and skin in the abdomen.

Time: 120 minutes

Admission: 1 night

Pain: No

Edema: Mild to moderate

Suture: Removed after a week.

Scar: No

Normal Life: You can go back to your social life after a week.

Efficacy: Persistent for years.