Extended Tummy Tuck

Sometimes, the skin which is found over the abdominals is found in too large a quantity as people have lost a large amount of weight. A traditional tummy tuck cannot always be used to get rid of the excess skin. This is because in extreme cases, the skin overhangs horizontally and is often stuck by the hips. Due to the shape which we have of the abdominals, the skin folds in very unusual ways. Instead, people can opt to have an extended tummy tuck which will actually get rid of all the skin which is found around that area. When this excess skin wraps around the back, the cutout pattern must be far more careful. Contrasting to the normal tummy tuck when the scar of the treatment can only be found at the front of the hips, the extended tummy tuck will make people have the scar further around the hips.

It depends on the person as to how large the scar will become by having an extended tummy tuck. If people can grab at least an inch between two fingers at the sides of their stomach, then far too much skin is in the area. Sometimes, liposuction treatment can make this problem go away. But losing the elasticity of the skin may well happen if this is done to a person which has liposuction surgery. The way that liposuction works is that it makes someone shrink their skin (which doesn’t work well at all with a person who has already lost a lot of weight). But cutting it out will make the abdominals far more tighter.

The decision of people wishing to have an extended tummy tuck into the back should not be a difficult choice. It is a trickier decision of people want to get rid of the vertical overhanging skin. By allowing a surgeon to cut out a flap of skin vertically, people will have a tighter waistline on the whole (and the rolls which are found so commonly can be eradicated). This creates an unusual tummy tuck (a fleur-de-lis) as a vertical incision is made instead from the middle of the stomach to another lower incision that has been cut horizontally. This extended tummy tuck is guaranteed to make a better result on the whole, but it is a question as to whether the consequence of having a large scar is worth the hassle.

On the whole, patients do say that it is worth having the extra scar that an extended tummy tuck brings. By people having this larger tummy tuck performed on them, they will be able to enjoy themselves, be able to perform exercise easier and look better with this cosmetic surgery.