Tummy Tuck in Houston, TX

Yes, you can lose weight after a tummy tuck. However, its best to do a tummy tuck after you reached your ideal weight. Any significant additional weight loss can create some additional loose skin.

A tummy tuck is not a weight loss surgery but rather a contouring procedure. Most patients report doing down at least one size down in their waistline after surgery.

Light exercise for legs and arms can be started as early as two weeks after tummy tuck surgery, but any strenuous activity and core training needs to be postponed for 6 weeks. When resuming exercise after a tummy tuck, it is important to start slow and listen to your body.

The ideal candidate for a tummy tuck is anyone looking to improve their abdomens appearance and has sufficient laxity to necessitate surgery. The patient also needs to be in good health to proceed with this elective procedure.

Pregnancy after tummy tuck is possible and can be carried to term. However, it is not recommended as another pregnancy will undo some of your tummy tuck results.

Most patients experience discomfort for about 1-2 weeks after surgery. Dr. Bachilo prescribes special medications that make a recovery much more comfortable and uses a long-acting injectable medicine during surgery that takes care of any pain during the first 3 days.

Two drains are frequently used during abdominoplasty and secured to the skin with sutures. Drains stay in for about a week or two, and patients are incrusted on drain care and how to measure drain amounts. Drains prevent fluid collection in the abdomen. Certain patients may be good candidates for drain-free abdominoplasty. Dr. Bachilo uses a specialized technique during a tummy tuck. She places special sutures, called progressive tension sutures, inside the tummy, which helps decrease the amount of fluid accumulation and thus decrease the need for drains. Dr. Bachilo can make recommendations on whether your tummy tuck can be a drain-free tummy tuck.

Diastasis recti are the loosening of tummy muscles common after pregnancy or after significant weight gain and loss. Diastasis recti are repaired during a tummy tuck procedure.

Binder or another form of compression is needed after tummy tuck surgery. Dr. Bachilo recommends continuous compression day and night for 4 weeks, followed by 2 weeks of compression-only during the day. After that, patients may use compression just as needed.

Tummy tuck surgery is performed in an outpatient surgery center or the hospital. Patients may go home the same day, but an overnight stay is also available.

During tummy tuck surgery, muscles are tightened in the middle to form an internal corset. This allows for even a flatter stomach after surgery.

To prepare for a tummy tuck, one needs to get to their ideal body weight and maintain it. One needs to avoid certain medications to reduce bruising and bleeding. Stop smoking a month before. Make sure to eat plenty of protein.

A tummy tuck scar is placed low in the abdomen from hip to hip. If you wear a shallow style of bikini, it would be helpful to bring it with you the day of your surgery so that Dr. Bachilo can do your surgical marking in the garment to ensure that the incision is concealed within the garment. Sometimes a small vertical incision is also needed. There will also be a scar around the navel once it’s put in the new position. Unless you have scars and know how your body heals, it is difficult to predict how your scars will heal. Many things influence final scar appearance, but genetics is the most important factor for the ultimate scar appearance.nAfter the incision is well healed, scar management can begin with silicon-containing products to help mature and improve scars appearance. Dr. Bachilo will instruct you when you can start scar management after all of your incisions are healed. She will also recommend some scar management options and may recommend some scar products to try.

A tummy tuck addresses loose abdominal skin and fat that is not amenable to less invasive procedures. Alternatives to tummy tuck include liposuction, CoolSculpting, Venus Legacy, and other less invasive body contouring procedures. While all of these will target fat and skin to some extent, none of them help to tighten loose tummy muscles.

It would be best if you waited at least one year after giving birth before undergoing a tummy tuck. Pregnancy causes a multitude of physiologic changes in a womans body. This, in turn, causes tissues and skin looseness. It would be best if you waited to have your body return to the pre-pregnancy state before having surgery. Also, if you desire to have more children, it is advisable to wait to have a tummy tuck after you are done with having children. The history of a tummy tuck will not impede a woman from carrying a healthy pregnancy to term. However, pregnancy can loosen the tummy again and undo previously achieved results.

General anesthesia is usually used for tummy tuck surgery.

Tummy tuck surgery is usually about two and a half to three hours.

Every surgical procedure carries risks. Risks of tummy tuck surgery are bleeding, infection, permanent sensation changes, poor scarring or wound healing problems, and dissatisfaction with final appearance necessitating revision surgery.

Drainless abdominoplasty or tummy tuck is the same procedure as a regular tummy tuck. Only the surgeon uses a specialized closure technique that allows for less potential space for fluid to accumulate. Therefore, draining tubes are not needed. Dr. Bachilo performs drainless tummy tucks for her patients, who are good candidates for this procedure.

The price of a tummy tuck in Houston varies depending on the procedure’s extent, and the time it will take. Other factors affecting the cost of abdominoplasty are the setting in which the procedure is performed, such as office-based surgery vs. hospital, and the surgical techniques used. The average total cost one may expect to pay for a tummy tuck cosmetic surgery is $10,000 for the low-cost tummy tuck to $14,000 on the higher end, including the surgeon’s fee, facility fee, and the anesthesia fee. If you are looking for an affordable tummy tuck in Houston, TX, Glamour Plastic Surgery and Med Spa offers a variety of financing options that will make this surgery even more reasonably priced and cost-effective.

Most patients are able to return to work one to two weeks after their abdominoplasty.

Abdominoplasty incision is positioned low on the abdomen to hide well in an undergarment and is hip to hip in length. There is also an incision around the navel.

Abdominoplasty incision is positioned low on the abdomen to hide well in an undergarment and is hip to hip in length. There is also an incision around the navel. A tummy tuck scar is usually well hidden in any undergarment or bikini. The only scar that may be slightly visible is the one around the navel.

You can finance your tummy tuck surgery as well as any other plastic surgery procedure in Houston, Texas. We offer financing through CareCredit, and you can enjoy your new shape with a low monthly payment plan.

At Glamour Plastic Surgery and Med Spa, we offer in-house financing for your Houston, Bellaire, Sugar Land, and other neighboring communities tummy tuck patients. You may make low monthly payments towards your surgery up to the date of your procedure.

You will have some discomfort after your abdominoplasty surgery, but you will be given prescriptions for pain medications and muscle relaxants. Pain improved rapidly over a few days, and the procedure is very well tolerated.

Abdominoplasty recovery is about two weeks. You will need to continue to be careful and restrict strenuous activity for 4-6 weeks.

You will have regular follow-ups with the doctor after your surgery. You will have some pain, swelling, and bruising, all of which will improve rapidly over the first week. If you have draining tubes, you will be instructed how to care for those and have them removed by the doctor about a week after surgery.