there are different types of tummy tucks some people that are just a little bit
loose at the bottom of their tummy you can do what we call either a mini or a
modified tummy tuck where only you might just take a strip of skin so what
happens is we see you in consultation and we talk about what's possible and we
talk about the different options that you have and then you're the senior
partner you will choose what to do sometimes it's borderline sometimes
let's say you might get a 75% result with just liposuction versus a
hundred-percent result with an abdominoplasty or tummy tuck and so if
you want if you're happy with a 75% result you might not want to go through
a tummy tuck and so but once the decision is made what we do is we book
your surgery and then we book you a pre-op appointment at the pre-op
appointment you come in and we do all the paperwork things like we give you
the prescriptions that you are going to need we have you sign of those scary
consent forms we take your pre-op photos because we're
going to take a post-op photo and we're going to put them side by side at the
end and show you your beautiful result and then the morning of surgery what
happens is you come in and I see you in the nurse sees you and the anesthetist
sees you we go over every little fine detail of what we're going to do and we
walk you to the operating room they start a little IV in your arm and for
you it's about that long you wake up and go where are we going to do it and it's
over we wheel you out to the car your support person takes you home or if you
want to stay overnight in our facility we have an overnight room that you can
stay with one of our nurses overnight the next day we see you unwrap you make
certain everything is perfect put some tapes on it you can get in the shower on
the first post-op day one of the things that's kind of unusual about our
practice is we don't use drains we've figured out a technique where we use
sutures underneath so that you don't need drains and so that allows you to
get in the shower the first day after you have to wear a garment for a
couple of weeks most people would take a couple of weeks off you're going to be
tired it's going to hurt when you move but it's going to be tolerable how long
it takes usually depends on number one your anatomy and what exactly we do and
how many procedures that you have done like for instance dr. Knotts and I today
operated together we did arms and breasts and tummy tuck all at one time
with two surgeons it took us four hours ordinarily it would take two or three
operations to do that but we're able to shorten the anesthesia time in operative
time so that you can do more there are plenty of women that come in here and
have a facelift a breast lift and a tummy tuck at the same time with two
surgeons because it's one anesthesia one operation one recovery period and it's
half as expensive and so how long it takes us depends on what you do and how
many surgeons that we use and those kind of things if you want to go behind the
scenes and see some surgery what you do is you sign up for snapchat at Austin-Weston
and you will be able to see how things are done if you will look at our
website those photographs are taking three months postoperatively the scars
generally are hidden in the bikini line by the bikini panties that we have on
those photos so you can see that those scars are hidden you might go to some
websites and you see the scars are halfway between the pubic hair and the
belly button we think those scars are too high and we design our tummy tucks
with a scar low so that it can be hidden generally though the scar is from hip
bone the hip bone but since its low it'll cover in a bikini line Tummy Tucks
are great I mean we do so many tummy tucks there is not a better place that I
know of to have a tummy tuck than the austin
weston center because we do so many of them we have so much experience
and your result generally is excellent please go to our website and look at
them either under the abdominoplasty heading or tummy-tuck heading or the
mommy makeover heading and just I want you to compare
the results on our website to the results on everybody else's website
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