Tummy Tuck Information

One of the best ways to show what a product or service can do is to illustrate it through images and video. Having said that, here are some tummy tuck before and after photos and another informative tummy tuck video which shows and explains the procedure in greater detail.

And now, here’s the video…

Tummy Tuck pictures, courtesy of PlasticSurgery.com. Tummy Tuck video, courtesy of David E Kim, M.D.

August 20th, 2008. A Martinez, California woman was sentenced to 9 months in prison for identity theft, using another woman’s stolen credit cards to subsidize payment for a Mommy Makeover, consisting of a Breast Lift, Liposuction and Tummy Tuck.

Londie Bowman, 32, is scheduled to surrender to Marin County sheriffs in October, according to her public defender and a spokesperson for the courts. Bowman, scheduled the procedure for February but only had about $12,000, a little over half of the cost for the group of procedures, but it wasn’t until after she had them when her theft caught up with her.

After her procedure, a complimentary get-well bouquet was sent from the plastic surgeon’s office, Plastic Surgery Specialists in Greenbrae to the victim of the identity theft, Maija Lamberts. When Ms. Lamberts started asking questions about why she received the bouquet, the details of the theft came to light. When Bowman contacted the plastic surgeon to inquire about a lingering itch near her navel, local authorities were able to intercept her on a return visit to the surgeon’s office.

After the highly publicized and unexpected death of Kanye West’s mother, Donda West, from an undiagnosed heart condition during tummy tuck surgery and breast reduction, the state of California has imposed stricter regulations for prospective elective surgery patients.

In California, all elective surgery patients will now be required to have a full body physical examination, before being eligible for any kind of elective surgery.

“Many of us are concerned about the quality of care extended to those who receive elective surgery,” says California Democratic State Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas.

With or without these regulations, we encourage prospective tummy tuck patients to learn if they are physically able to have surgical procedures, via pre-surgery medical tests. Also, it never hurts to do a little doctor-screening at the same time.

Ask your physician if you are right for the procedure you’d like to have. Find out what qualifications and the doctor has and make sure that there are no potential health issues that can affect the outcome of the surgery. Ask your doctor if he or she specializes in the procedure you’re interested in, or simply performs a wide array of procedures, and doesn’t have extensive experience with a particular procedure or body region. If tests reveal potential complications or issues, but you’re doctor seems un-phased and determined to perform the procedure, get a second or even a third opinion.

Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Area Tummy Tuck Procedures

After a woman has had a baby or gains tremendous weight, her stomach muscles often become stretched. That allows her tummy to sag into a pot belly. Most of the time, the tummy hangs over the beltline. But even the hardest exercises cannot return the stomach back to its normal shape. That’s when women in the Los Angeles and Bevelry Hills area go see a plastic surgeon about a tummy tuck, the surgical procedure to reduce a fatty stomach.

Los Angeles plastic surgeon Dr. Ivan Thomas offers a tummy tuck procedure known as the Beverly Hills Tummy Tuck. That procedure removes the woman’s pot belly and creates a flat stomach that is trimmer and more athletic than a standard tummy tuck. Dr. Thomas produces his special tummy tuck by taking longer and cross-stitching the stomach muscles back together. Additionally, he puts more stitches across the beltline and that pulls in the patient’s sides tighter. The operation also shrinks the patient’s waist in the front-to-back aspect and in the side-to-side dimension.

“Having a Beverly Hills Tummy Tuck is like wearing a tight girdle under your skin and squeezing the tummy in all directions,” says Dr. Thomas.

When looking for plastic surgery in Southern California, most people think of posh surgical suites in Beverly Hills or the world famous and prestigious medical facilities of schools like USC. The reality of the situation is that, while most of us would like to make a change in our appearance, usually in the form of a procedure like a tummy tuck, having your procedure done by a well-known “surgeon to the stars” just isn’t an option.

So what does one do? Give up? Visit some far off land, so your travel expenses eclipse the cost of your plastic surgery procedure? An easier solution could be to simply visit a plastic surgeon near but not in a major metropolitan area. For prospective patients in Southern California, simply making the trip down to a city like San Diego could be just the solution!

With all of the resources we have at our disposal nowadays, finding a plastic surgeon is as easy as turning on your computer. So why not look for someone like a San Diego Tummy Tuck specialist to have perform your plastic surgery procedure? You might be surprised by what options you have at your disposal!