ABDOMINOPLASTY

Sport, slimming treatments and targeted exercises are not always enough to find a flat stomach. Successive pregnancies, significant variations in weight, an absence of physical activity can be the cause of unhappiness in the stomach. Faced with this problem, abdominoplasty or dermolipectomy of the belly can provide a solution.

What is an abdominoplasty?

Abdominoplasty refers to reconstructive or cosmetic surgery to beautify the stomach. Also called abdominal plasty or dermolipectomy of the belly, this intervention reshapes the abdomen by removing excess fat and excess skin, but also by restructuring and strengthening the muscles of the abdominal wall. The abdominoplasty is for aesthetic purposes, but can also be for functional purposes since it can allow the patient to regain comfort and muscle repair.

These main indications are those of sagging skin with stretch marks, whether or not accompanied by excess fat.

The abdominoplasty will act on three levels:

- Reduce any excess fat in the belly. A common condition in men from their forties and in women after menopause;

- Reduce excess skin. The goal is to fight against the abdominal apron that follows pregnancies or weight loss diets;

- Tighten the rectus abdominis muscles. The separation of the abdominal muscles (diastasis of the rectus abdominis) can have a congenital origin or follow PREGNANCIES.

If the excess abdominal fat is not accompanied by sagging muscles or excess skin, liposuction of the stomach may be sufficient.

The different abdominoplasty techniques

It is the clinical diagnosis that will allow the plastic surgeon to develop the best intervention strategy. He will choose the most appropriate technique according to several parameters: the condition of the skin, muscle tone, the part of the excess fat in the unsightly and uncomfortable appearance of the belly ...

There are schematically three scenarios:

Isolated abdominal liposuction

In young subjects, when abdominal muscle tone is preserved and there is little skin alteration (excess skin, stretch marks), simple liposuction may be sufficient to restore a harmonious and flattened belly. Liposuction eliminates localized and non-diffuse fat deposits (lipomeria), real excess fat resistant to diet and sport.

The principle consists of introducing fine foam cannulas with rounded, non-sharp ends into the areas to be liposuction. Connected to a vacuum cleaner, they suck up excess fat. As adipocytes do not have the ability to multiply, recurrence is not observed if the areas have been correctly treated. A balanced lifestyle should be observed thereafter because untreated areas may still be subject to fatty accumulation.

The mini-abdominoplasty

When the diagnosis is excess skin (with or without excess fat) located primarily in the lower abdomen, below the navel, the indication is a mini-abdominoplasty.

The treatment is then based on:

- Liposuction of the belly which may involve the entire abdomen, the flank region, and the dorsal bulges (when there is excess fat to correct)

- A localized detachment of the skin located from the pubic area to the navel (lower part of the abdomen), in order to re-tighten the skin. The excess skin is removed (dermolipectomy), then the practitioner "plucks" the healthy skin down.

- A possible re-tensioning of the abdominal muscles below the navel is possible.

In the mini-abdominoplasty, there is no transposition of the navel unlike the abdominoplasty. So there is no umbilical scar. In addition, the incision scar camouflaged in the bikini area is shorter than that of a full tummy tuck.

Complete abdominoplasty or abdominoplasty with umbilical transposition

When the diagnosis is significant and diffuse lesions of the abdominal skin (notable distension, stretched and / or scarred appearance, lack of tone) accompanied or not by an alteration of the abdominal wall (presence of diastasis of the rectus muscles, hernia umbilical) and abdominal fat overload, the treatment is complete abdominoplasty.

The anesthesia is always general and the hospital stay is 1 to 2 days depending on the patient. 

Several surgical procedures are then associated and the abdominoplasty takes place in several distinct stages:

- Liposuction over the entire abdomen, stomach area and flanks. This gesture treats any fatty component, thinens and thus flattens the abdomen.

- Detachment of skin and fatty tissue up to the upper border of the stomach area.

- The re-tensioning of the abdominal muscles. It is the cure of abdominal diastasis where the practitioner thus tightens the muscles of the rectus abdominis.

- The removal of the excess skin located between the pubis and the navel or dermolipectomy.

- Umbilical transposition where the navel is repositioned.

- Lifting or lifting of the belly. The healthy skin is lowered to contour the abdomen. The technique used is henceforth the technique known as "higher high tension", less invasive than the previous techniques: it is about a recent technique which distributes the tensions exerted on the redraped skin, alleviates the tensions exerted on the scar. 'incision. This gives a low scar without tension and therefore better defined and more discreet. The concave and convex lines defining a harmonious belly are restored.

At your request, we can take care of all the procedures relating to reservations (hotel, car, etc.), transfers (airport-hotel) and other additional services depending on the type of stay chosen. 

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