one of the things that we do at austin weston is we do a lot of mommy makeovers
mommy makeovers involve doing breasts and tummies at the same time but there
are a lot of different options with breasts and tummies
you know and so what we're gonna do here when we're talking about mommy makeovers
is we're gonna go through all the options and make sure you understand
what we do and why we do it mommy makeover is a lay term I guess that was
made up for the type of surgeries that are most common after mothers have had
all their babies and they want to get their bodies back and as you know
pregnancy is difficult on breasts and tummies and so most commonly when when
moms come in that's the combination that we do is we look at their bodies and
depending on what they want to do and of course depending on their particular
Anatomy we can combine both breast surgery and abdomen surgery at the same
time and so there are options like breast augmentations or even breast
reductions or breast lifts and you can also sometimes combine those surgeries
like you can do a breast augmentation and a lift at the same time and when we
do a breast reduction generally it's always done with a lift at the same time
and then when you combine that with the abdomen you either combine it with
liposuction sometimes women don't need tummy tucks after having babies and in
fact I had a patient yesterday who is 48 years old and has had three children and
looks so good that she didn't need a tummy tuck and that's remarkable and so
what we did was we did liposuction and a breast lift
most commonly though after pregnancy the tissues get loose like the muscle
stretch out and the skin gets a little loose and and maybe you gained a few
pounds and you're a little bit thicker and so we most commonly do tummy tucks in our mommy makeovers
tummy tuck is like a lift the incision is down low from generally the hip bone
to hip bone area we loosen it up and we sculpt it with liposuction we pull it
down like a window shade and make it nice and tight the tummy tuck treats all
three things of the abdomen there is loose muscle that gets tightened with a
suture that tightens the muscles back up the skin gets tightened by loosening it
and pulling it down and then the fat gets sculpted with liposuction
in liposuction all you do is sculpt the fat but you have to have tight enough
muscles and tight enough skin to allow that if you have loose muscle or loose
skin it's not the proper operation now there are different types of tummy tucks
and so some women have you know their muscles are okay and they only have a
little bit of loose skin like below the belly button well that's perfect for
what I would call a Mini or a modified tummy tuck with an incision down low you
just loosen it up and tighten the skin you might not even have to tighten
muscles and so there are different types of tummy tucks there's a full classic
tummy tuck where the muscle is tightened and the fat is sculpted and the skin is
also tighten down to a mini tummy tuck where it's just a little a little bit of
skin it at the bottom I would think that the the most common thing that we see
where the mommy makeover is a tummy tuck and a breast augmentation or breast lift
that's the most common one there are very few women that after having their
children can get away with just liposuction because if there's some
looseness the you usually want the Tighten that now
there's an occasion a woman that comes in and says you know I don't I don't
care what I look like naked I want to look good in clothes and so maybe
liposuction is appropriate there but but liposuction is not gonna make you tight
and so there's what you look like with your clothes on there's what you look
like without your clothes on and so you have to decide which of those views is
important to you for mommy makeovers generally we can do everything at once
on occasion I will see a patient that wants both a breast augmentation and a
breast lift if they are so droopy
sometimes I think that it's better done in stages for instance when you put an
implant in then it can be difficult to get the breast tissue over the implant
and have it stay there and have it be beautiful and in an occasional patients
I will do the the breast lift first and then come back after it's healed and do
the breast augmentation most commonly we we do combinations of tummy tucks and
breasts and sometimes we do thigh suction at the same time for instance but we
really don't do combinations of say a thigh lift and a tummy tuck those we
have to stage and so there's there's just there's different reasons why we
would stage them you know depending on life where the incision is the thigh
lift is incision incision is close to the tummy tuck incision and so we don't
want to combine those huge benefit to doing everything at one time and we do a
lot of combination surgeries here we have an unusual practice in that we have
for plastic surgeons operating in the same operative theater if you will at
one time and we can also sometimes do two surgeons and so it makes it quicker
it makes it less expensive it shortens your recovery period so we use one
anesthesia one operation one recovery period and half is expensive on the
second and third procedures and so sometimes we combine you know arm lift
and breast lift and tummy tuck and lots of things
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