Tumescent Tummy Tuck Photographs Before and After Surgery using Local Anesthesia and Sedation
27 year old female was not happy with her loose abdominal skin and stretch marks after having 2 children.
Height 5' 4" Weight 128 pounds
Location Surgery: Hospital Operating Room
Anesthesia: Tumescent Technique Local Anesthesia with Heavy Sedation
Stay: Up to 23 hour ambulatory surgery package.
Abdominal Sculpture included:
- Tumescent Tummy Tuck
- High Lateral Tension Technique
- Tightening of the rectus muscles of the abdomen from the sternum to the pubic bone
- Liposuction contouring of the abdominal fat and lateral transition zones
This female patient had tumescent tummy tuck under local anesthesia with sedation. No general anesthetic was necessary for her comfort. She only needed prescribed oral pain medication for a few days after surgery. Please start here to learn more about this patient.
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Left Photographs: Before Tumescent Tummy Tuck Right Photographs: Map Before Tumescent Tummy Tuck |
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Left Photographs: 7 Weeks After Tumescent Tummy Tuck Right Photographs: 11 Weeks After Tumescent Tummy Tuck |
The front black ellipse markings show the extent of tissue removed in this high lateral tension tumescent tummy tuck. Black circles indicate plan for liposuction contouring.
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Left Photographs: Before Tumescent Tummy Tuck Right Photographs: Map Before Tumescent Tummy Tuck |
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Left Photographs: 7 Weeks After Tumescent Tummy Tuck Right Photographs: 11 Weeks After Tumescent Tummy Tuck |
The next series of photographs show the limited bruising and swelling after this tumescent tummy tuck. Look at the changes seen in the evolving tissues one week, three weeks, seven weeks, and eleven weeks after surgery. Scars already hide behind minimal clothing. At 1 week the Steri-Strips tapes seen help protect the wound.
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| Photographs Before Tumescent Tummy Tuck | Photographs of Map Before Tumescent Tummy Tuck | Photographs 11 Weeks After Tumescent Tummy Tuck |
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Photographs 1 Week After Tumescent Tummy
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Photographs 3 Weeks After Tumescent
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7 Weeks After Tumescent Tummy Tuck |
View Movie of swelling and bruising only 7 days after this Tumescent Tummy Tuck Abdominoplasty, click on link below.
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Once the movie is loaded, scroll back and forth to best see the three dimensional nature of the problem and tumescent tummy tuck solution. You may need to download the file and then open it in your movie player that will handle MPEG-4 files.
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To better understand the three dimensional nature of this problem and surgical sculpture, please examine all of the different photographs of this female patient.
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Side pictures of Tumescent Tummy Tuck  |
Tumescent
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Photographs of back of female Tumescent Tummy Tuck | Belly Button Sculpture as part of Tumescent Tummy Tuck | ||||
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