Tummy Tuck A Procedural Guide
How a tummy tuck is done entirely depends on the amount of work that needs done and the type of abdominoplasty required to do it. Generally a tummy tuck patient arrives at the hospital and is put under a generally anaesthetic, while the cosmetic surgery team performs an operation that can last from 2-4 hrs on average.

The cosmetic surgeon will begin by making a long straight incision across the stomach at about the same line as your pubic hair. After making this incision, the doctor will make a series of cuts and tucks to remove excess skin between that cut and the belly button, for this to be accomplished a second incision may need to be made around the navel itself.

This will allow your doctor, at the conclusion of the procedure, to pull the skin down to meet at the incision line, tightening the skin across the stomach. He will then remove excess fat, and reposition and repair muscular tissue as needed. During this part of the procedure, sections of muscle will have to be cut, and removed.

Then they will be repositioned and internally sutured together to maintain abdominal stability, while tightening and strengthening the abdominal wall. Often the belly button is used as an anchor for new folds placed in the skin and musculature as part of the corrective measures taken.

After all the reconstruction inside the abdominal area is accomplished, your doctor will reposition your belly button, and close the incision. If a mini tummy tuck cosmetic surgery is performed, in incision required will be much shorter, and the measures taken to achieve correction less drastic. This procedure will generally take between one and two hours, and will not require the belly button to be repositioned before closure.