so a mommy makeover all right it's a
term that's out there and it means a lot
of different things and it can be very
confusing so let me see if I can break
it down all right after you have it
after you have a baby it affects two
areas primarily your abdomen and your
breasts right and everybody's a little
bit different so that's why mommy
makeovers can be so variable let's just
talk about it and break it down a little
bit regarding the tummy that usually
means a tummy tuck at the Austin western
center a tummy tuck cost about ten
thousand dollars we can add on breast
work to that surgery and we often do
them together I mean we really ought to
there are three maybe four different
ways of dealing with the breast we can
make them bigger because we've lost
volume after breast feedings we can
reduce them lift them and reduce them
because they've gotten bigger or we can
just simply lift them right so those are
three different things we can do once
you add breast surgery into a mommy
makeover you're adding about four
thousand dollars to the cost there is a
fourth breast surgery where you not only
lift the breast that you make it bigger
right that adds another two thousand
dollars to the cost you up to around
sixteen thousand dollars an hour service
then sometimes depending on your weight
a lot of people have trouble getting
back into their fighting weight after
having a baby and so at that point
sometimes we're doing liposuction the
way we do it here is we break it down by
area not by volume but by area and so
every area that we do adds about $2500 to $3000
more to the surgery
because it's more time more anesthesia
it's a different type of surgery so at
that point if you're doing a tummy tuck
breast surgery and one area of liposuction
usually this area behind the back
we call the flanks you're looking at
around eighteen to twenty thousand
dollars with the surgery here not maybe
even is a little bit high but when we
work things here if in terms of cost at
Austin Western the Senate for cosmetic
surgery the biggest procedure is
charged full price so if we're doing a
mommy makeover for example
Breast and Tummy Tuck the tummy tuck
it's going to be the biggest procedure and that
cost by the time all said and done
around ten thousand dollars including
the operating room including the
anesthesia including all your garments
including the pain pump we're not
gonna charge doing nickel and anyas it's
one fee that's kind of it if we do a
breast surgery after that it gets halfed
okay if we do liposuction after in
conjunction with it that gets halved
also all of these things that come
afterwards come in at half price and
that's why you know we it makes sense to
to sort of group all this stuff together
and we want to make it easy for people
to do that because it's been one
recovery you go through this one time
and you're out into the rest of your
life it's also one of the reasons that
it's important to kind of be done with
children you don't want to do this and
then get pregnant again we also don't
want to do this and gain a lot of weight
so you kind of want to be stable you
want to have you pretty much done with
your children but I've had people get
pregnant after a tummy tuck and it's not
the end of the world it can happen how
will you know if it's as good as we can
get it well that's why we have you come
back at three months and there may be
little things we can fuss with one of
the great things about this Center here
at Austin Weston is that we own
the operating rooms the staff that work
here are our employees and so it doesn't
cost anything for us to take you back to
the operating room if we do need to fuss
with something three months that's
thousands of dollars that's you know
saved to you if we need or want
to just tweak something afterwards
and it's very important because you know
it's really about turning off that
little voice in your head that's just
unhappy and making life just not as much
fun as it used to be I guess every place
has a policy for revisions our policy is
I don't think we really have a policy
you know our policy is is that we want
to make people happy and to the extent
that I think I can make it better and I
see it oh I'm going to bend over
backwards to get it done on the rare
blue moon occasion I honestly can't see
what's what the problem is afterwards
well I we may follow up over time and
see if something gets visible to me but
that's pretty unusual
I can usually make things a little bit
better people are unhappy but my
revision rate at least mine is really
very low every procedure every procedure
has its own or vision rate rhinoplasty
is 2 out of 100 you know tummy
tucks maybe a little bit more than that
but it's not that common
breast augmentation breast augmentations
we actually have a guarantee in this
practice for three years if you come
back once a year so that we can check
you and make sure everything is going
away we wanted to for three years we
won't charge you anything if you if you
have any problems with your breasts now
that usually falls into two categories
one is a capsular contracture which we
just don't see here very often anymore or
an implant malposition again something
that doesn't really happen and so we're
able to guarantee our results I don't
think that exists anywhere else in this
country let us talk about cost for a
second these are the other surgical
surgeons and what they would charge we
we check around to make sure that we're
not completely out of line with our
costs and we're not we're we're high
middle okay and you know I from our
perspective that's kind of where we want
to be we we don't want to be excessively
abnormal we want to make we want to make
it available to people because we love
what we do we see the power of it and
that's we're here to make contributions
and we don't want to be the cheapest
because then we can't provide the
quality that we provide there's always
that trade-off between quality service
and cost and you can kind of compete on
two out of the three and we choose
quality and service so we are obviously
focused on costs we want to keep it down
as best we can but at the end of the day
you're going to live with this result
for the rest of your life okay and we
have specialized me personally for 25
years trying to figure out ways to
improve my technique to not only get you
through the surgery as quickly and
easily as possible
but also to get long-lasting results
that you're going to love