Category: No Drain Tummy Tuck

Posted August 13, 2025 in belly button, Breast Augmentation, Breast Implant Replacement, Breast Revision, No Drain Tummy Tuck

Mom of Two, Nurse Amelia’s Life-Changing Tummy Tuck & Breast Revision Journey

Dr.Christopher Patronella has transformed countless lives with his expertise and innovative approach to body contouring. One of his most inspiring stories comes from Amelia, a dedicated surgical nurse, mother of two, and Houston resident who reclaimed her confidence through Dr. Patronella’s True Form Tummy Tuck and breast implant revision. Watch her powerful testimonial in the […]

Posted March 21, 2025 in Mini Tummy Tuck, No Drain Tummy Tuck, Revision Tummy Tuck, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Uncategorized

Mini Tummy Tuck Surgery: Plastic Surgeon Dr. Patronella Rarely Recommends It

Plastic Surgeon Dr. Chris Patronella One reason why I don’t favor mini tummy tuck surgery in most of the women I see who desire improvement of the abdomen after childbirth is this the lower abdomen can be flattened, but it would disproportionally affect the unpaired upper abdomen by leaving a bulge in the upper abdomen, […]

Posted February 17, 2025 in Breast Lift, Mommy Makeover, No Drain Tummy Tuck, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck

Mommy Makeover Surgery: Why It’s One of Dr. Patronella’s Favorite Procedures to Perform

By Dr. Chris Patronella Women make a tremendous sacrifice when they have children—a sacrifice that involves their body and their time. And oftentimes, after having children, the body isn’t the way it used to be. It can be very disheartening for a women to know what they had before and to see what they see […]

Posted September 25, 2024 in Mommy Makeover, No Drain Tummy Tuck, Revision Tummy Tuck, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck, Uncategorized

Diastasis: Why You Can Still Look Pregnant Years After Giving Birth and the Solution to Fix It

By Dr. Chris Patronella Introduction In the patients’ preoperative photos featured in this video, the abdominal appearance is very round and protuberant. No exercise in the world is going to fix this. But it can be surgically-corrected in a tummy tuck procedure. In the patients’ postoperative photos you can see how effective the tummy […]

Posted May 08, 2024 in Body Contouring, Liposuction, Mommy Makeover, No Drain Tummy Tuck, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®

Can Lipo 360 Be Combined with a Tummy Tuck?

By Dr. Chris Patronella I was recently asked if Lipo 360 can be performed at the same time as a tummy tuck. And my answer is “absolutely yes.” Often I will do Lipo 360 of the torso, the waist, hips, and thighs. I particularly like to perform a tummy tuck with liposuction in the […]

Posted May 06, 2024 in Body Lift, Breast Augmentation, Breast Implant Replacement, Breast Implants, Breast Lift, Breast Reduction, Breast Revision, Breast Sagging, Mommy Makeover, No Drain Tummy Tuck

What is a Mommy Makeover?

By Dr. Chris Patronella Perhaps the most common surgical procedure I do in my practice today is so-called mommy makeover surgery, which is generally comprised of addressing the tummy and the breasts in a woman who’s had children. And that can mean anything from breast augmentation alone after losing volume from breast-feeding to breast augmentation […]

Posted March 26, 2024 in Mommy Makeover, No Drain Tummy Tuck, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck

Video: Dr. Patronella Shows You the Details of His No-Drain True Form Tummy Tuck

By Plastic Surgeon Dr. Chris Patronella The evolution of the drainless True Form Tummy Tuck® began about 25 years ago. Generally speaking, I was dissatisfied with the way I had learned to perform a tummy tuck and the results that were standard at the time. Often, the patient looked very artificial—the abdomen was flat […]

Posted January 18, 2024 in Arm Lift - Brachioplasty, Body Contouring, Body Lift, Liposuction, No Drain Tummy Tuck

The Drainless Tummy Tuck: Dr. Patronella Uses This Technique to Eliminate Drains During Recovery

By Houston Plastic Surgeon Dr. Chris Patronella Named One of “America’s Best Plastic Surgeons” in Newsweek For more than 20 years, I’ve been incorporating a technique called progressive tensions sutures, which has effectively eliminated the need for my patients to wear drains following plastic surgery body contouring procedures. Traditionally, plastic surgeons have used drains […]

Posted November 30, 2023 in Liposuction, Mini Tummy Tuck, Mommy Makeover, No Drain Tummy Tuck

Liposuction or a Tummy Tuck: Which is Best For You?

By Plastic Surgeon Dr. Chris Patronella Very frequently, patients are looking for the easiest solution to whatever their concern is, and a perfect example of this is concerns the abdomen. Commonly, women who’ve had children will look at themselves and realize that it doesn’t look like it did before they had children. So oftentimes […]

Posted November 01, 2023 in Body Contouring, No Drain Tummy Tuck, Recovery, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck

How Long Does It Take To Recover From a Tummy Tuck and Breast Surgery?

By Dr. Chris Patronella Most patients require a good two weeks at home following a tummy tuck. They are not quite able to get up and around the first three or four days without some sort of assistance, so work is really out of the question. And I require two weeks before a person can […]

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