Dr. Lane F. Smith, MD, Las Vegas owns and operates the busy Smith Plastic Surgery Center in Las Vegas. Dr. Smith is formally trained at Stanford and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic. Dr. Smith performs a variety of cosmetic procedures including breast enlargement, liposuction, rhinoplasty, facelift, eyelid lift, back implants and many other cosmetic procedures.
Due to his reputation as an authority in his field, Dr. Smith was often asked to speak and speak at medical conferences. He has written several articles and has been published in numerous prestigious medical journals. He has also received various medical awards.
Dr Smith has unique achievements as one of the few plastic surgeons in the country to be certified by four agencies. Her compassion and artistic touch is what her patients feel to distinguish it from other plastic surgeons.
Today we focus on Tummy Tuck. This is a procedure that is popular with postpartum women and those who suffer from weight loss. We ask Dr Smith to provide some insights on the procedure and just what it involves.
Dr. Smith, can you explain the Tummy Tuck procedure and how it's done?
Doctor Smith: The Tummy Tuck procedure is performed by having a low splash in the stomach and traveling all the way through the skin and fat to the muscle layer.
At this point, we will continue up to the bottom of the rib cage lifting the skin and fat in one giant flap. The skin and fat are then pulled down and additional trimmed and removed.
In my case, we did a little special procedure where at this point we had liposuction and we were taking loose loose muscles and tightening the abdominal muscles. The final workout or scar is low and hidden within the bikini line.
Who is the right candidate for this procedure? Who is the most profitable?
Dr Smith: The ideal candidate for Tummy Tuck is whether women have children or men or women who suffer from weight loss. The best candidate is someone with a child or individual who has lost a lot of weight and is left with loose skin.
Is this an effective way to get rid of the constant stretch marks on the abdomen?
Dr. Smith: A real Tummy Tuck or abdominoplasty is the only way to remove the stretch marks on the abdomen. People will try to sell your skin and claim that the laser will do something but actually all that the laser can do is change the color.
If the stretch marks are a little red, they can fade. If they are a little brown, they can fade. But he won't take it out. If you want to remove it, you need to cut it and remove it. This is the only way we can issue stretch marks.
How much recovery time is required in this procedure?
Dr. Smith: It really depends on the patient. Most patients return to work after about ten days. Women say it feels like Section C in terms of the pain and discomfort they have. We ask patients not to practice three to four weeks after the Tummy Tuck procedure.
You are one of the few surgeons in the country who performs Tummy Tuck procedures in addition to other procedures. Can you expand it?
Dr Smith: Most surgeons will not do Tummy Tuck and liposuction on the abdomen at the same time. I developed a technique in which several peripheral blood vessels survived. This provides extra blood supply to the abdominal flaps that allows us to perform liposuction safely without killing the skin.
The thought is that if you do liposuction that lifts the skin and fat you will kill the skin. That has happened in the past. If this perforator is avoided, you can do liposuction aggressively without incident.
I present this at a meeting of the California Plastic Surgery Association. I turn over the paper to the Journal of Plastic Surgery and Reconstruction on this subject. We've done over four to five hundred surgeries this way without killing the skin.
It is a safe procedure but this approach allows us to perform better and be more aggressive in one operation. A surgeon in the past will divide this into two surgeries.
What are some of the most common misconceptions you find about Tummy Tuck procedures?
Dr. Smith: The most common misconceptions are that they want to go in and have a mini-tummy tuck. It's okay. It's a smaller slice and most are not candidates for it. To be a candidate for a mini-tummy tuck you need almost no stretch marks and just a little loose skin.
Another common misconception is about the scars from surgery. It leaves a long scar throughout the lower abdomen but if you take excellent treatment of the scar and the surgeon closes in a very special fashion as we do then the scar is basically invisible.
The difference is that you can trade. Stretch marks are scars. So, you trade thirty or forty stretch marks that aren't hidden in a bikini for a scar that is hidden in a bikini. It's a good trade. Sometimes patients who opt for a lower-end procedure are less than happy.
Doctor Smith, what is the biggest consideration a potential patient should have when deciding whether the Tummy Tuck procedure is right for them?
Dr. Smith: The biggest and most important consideration is that they are generally in good shape. We don't want to do Tuck Tummy on someone who is in bad health. This does not mean that they have to run or jog or anything like that, but we don't want to have a procedure on someone with a heart condition, for example. We want them to be in generally good health. If they are in good shape, this is a safe procedure. It's actually safer than C-Section. Again, we don't want to do that unless the patient is in good health.
Thank you, Doctor Smith for providing important information to those considering Tummy Tuck procedures.
Dr. Smith: You're right. You're very welcome.
Dr. Lane Smith, MD, Smith Plastic Surgery Center, Las Vegas can be reached directly at 702-838-2455. Its business website is smithsurgery.com.
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