Posted May 14, 2025 in Liposuction, Tummy Tuck
A common question I receive from patients who come in for body contouring, whether it be for tummy tuck surgery, liposuction, or any other body contouring procedure is, what would happen if, after undergoing these procedures, they were to gain weight? Where would the fat go? It’s a somewhat difficult question to answer because we […]
Read MorePosted April 14, 2025 in Post-Weight Loss Procedures, Reverse Tummy Tuck, Tummy Tuck, Uncategorized
By Dr. Chris Patronella I want to talk to you about a procedure that has become one of my favorites to perform: The Reverse Tummy Tuck. I would like to be able to do more of them, but most women are better candidates for the standard tummy tuck approach. However, there are a few patients […]
Read MorePosted February 17, 2025 in Breast Lift, Mommy Makeover, No Drain Tummy Tuck, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck
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 […]
Read MorePosted September 25, 2024 in Mommy Makeover, No Drain Tummy Tuck, Revision Tummy Tuck, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck, Uncategorized
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 […]
Read MorePosted July 26, 2024 in Liposuction, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck
By Dr. Chris Patronella In our training, we as plastic surgeons learn how to do plastic surgery techniques: tummy tuck procedures, breast lift procedures, facelift procedures, etc. That’s what our training is about—to learn how to perform those procedures and the techniques for each one. But plastic surgery is so much more than that. There’s […]
Read MorePosted May 30, 2024 in Mommy Makeover, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck
By Dr. Chris Patronella In the this patient you can see that, while she has very significant stretch marks on her abdomen, when I pull the skin taut during a True Form Tummy Tuck procedure, the stretch marks are not nearly as apparent. They are much harder to see. Stretch marks are still present […]
Read MorePosted May 23, 2024 in belly button, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck
Restoration of the belly button is a surprisingly complex aspect of tummy tuck surgery. It’s one of the top concerns women tell me they have about the procedure. Many have seen the results of friends who wound up with artificial-looking navels after undergoing a tummy tuck (abdominoplasty). Since one of the most common goals patients […]
Read MorePosted May 06, 2024 in Liposuction, Revision Tummy Tuck, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck
By Dr. Chris Patronella
Read MorePosted March 26, 2024 in Mommy Makeover, No Drain Tummy Tuck, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, 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 […]
Read MorePosted November 01, 2023 in Body Contouring, No Drain Tummy Tuck, Recovery, True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck
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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