Tummy Tuck

A tummy tuck is ideal for two types of patients. The first type includes patients who have excess skin as a result of significant weight loss; the second includes women whose skin and abdominal muscles have stretched as a result of pregnancy. By removing excess skin and reattaching separated abdominal muscles, Dr. Lista provides patients with tighter, flatter stomachs.

DR. FRANK LISTA: Tummy tuck is a great operation usually for two groups of patients. Either patients who have lost a lot of weight and have loose skin and the other group are women who have had children and what happens when you have babies is that your tummy muscles come apart and the skin stretches and sometimes the muscles don’t go back together and sometimes the skin doesn’t shrink so they end up with looseness of their tummy. Many of those patients aren’t, most of them aren’t fat. They are not overweight. They just have muscles, which have been ruined from childbirth. Especially if they have had a cesarean and what we do is we go back in often if they have had a cesarean through the cesarean incision sew the muscles back together, remove the excess skin, remove any excess fat, pull the skin down tight and we give these patients back a tight flat stomach.