Our patients who have received a tummy tuck in Toronto at Edelstein Cosmetic have been able to see some of the following examples of the benefits that this surgery can provide:

• Banish the “muffin top” so you can feel confident wearing pants without worrying about undesirable bulging.
• Better overall flexibility
• Create a cinched-in waist that gives you an hourglass figure.
• Ease towards an active lifestyle.
• Eliminate saggy skin that diminishes the desirable effects of your weight loss.
• Feel much better about yourself because you know you look good.
• Have the flatter, firmer stomach you had before pregnancy.
• Repair issues such as diastasis recti
• Revamp your wardrobe, doing away with clothes that camouflage your figure. Instead, you’ll be able to wear a wider range of clothing, including form-fitting tops, pants, and dresses, to show off your improved body contour.

Tummy tucks can be performed on candidates of either sex, whether they are young or old. Most of our patients are women who have given birth and wish to restore their abdominal area to look like it did before pregnancy. Candidates for this elective procedure must be relatively healthy and fit to ensure a safe and speedy recovery.

Abdominoplasty can correct excess or loose skin on the stomach, stretch marks on the abdomen, and lax, weak, or separated abdominal muscles. Those who have experienced significant weight loss, including patients who have had bariatric weight loss surgery, make good candidates for this procedure. Weight loss patients can achieve great results by removing excess skin on the abdomen and tightening stomach muscles.

If you are a smoker, you must stop smoking at least four weeks before the surgery and should not continue smoking after the procedure for another four weeks.

At Edelstein Cosmetic, our surgeons perform either a traditional abdominoplasty, mini abdominoplasty or a specialized tummy tuck procedure known as the Floating Abdominoplasty or FAB procedure. All of our abdominoplasty surgeries are performed to minimize scarring and create beautiful, natural-looking results for our patients.

Our certified anesthesiologist will administer general anesthesia to put you to sleep. This is a safe and effective method to ensure you are unaware of the surgery and do not feel any pain during the procedure. Liposuction is often performed on the ‘love handles’ as well as the tummy before the abdominoplasty begins. For the traditional tummy tuck, once you are completely asleep, the doctor will make a hip-to-hip incision in your lower abdomen, which is located below the bathing suit line. The incision will be smaller for a mini-tummy and FAB tummy tuck.

Next, the skin and fat tissue are lifted from the abdominal muscles, and your surgeon will carefully stitch the muscles together to ensure a tighter, firmer muscle wall. The skin and fatty layer are stretched downwards, and excess skin and tissue are trimmed. For the traditional (full) tummy tuck, another small incision is made for the newly positioned belly button, which is then brought through and placed in this spot. Two drainage tubes may be inserted into the wound, and additional liposuction will be performed if a significant layer of fatty tissue remains. Finally, the surgeon will carefully and neatly stitch up the incision, place a dressing on the wound, and put a compression garment on the patient.

Fat & Muscle Tummy Tuck:

Candidates for this procedure should have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 30, preferably less than 25. Patients with higher BMIs are at an increased risk of complications, and the results are not as effective. Moreover, if a patient’s abdomen has too much fat under the muscle layer, then muscle tightening will not produce lasting results.

Pregnancy Tummy Tuck:

If you are a woman planning to have children in the future, you should know that a tummy tuck will not interfere with a future pregnancy or affect your baby’s development. However, it is important to note that due to the significant changes your body will go through during pregnancy, your abdominal region may not return to its post-tummy-tuck shape. It is best to wait until you have finished having children before undergoing a tummy tuck.

FAB Tummy Tuck:

Candidates who have a generally healthy physique but continue to struggle with significantly stretched and weak abdominal muscles, giving them a pregnant appearance, may be good candidates for our advanced FAB tummy tuck procedure, provided they do not have a lot of excess loose skin. Read more about the FAB tummy tuck.

After the surgery, your surgeon and their staff will monitor you in the recovery room to make sure that the sedation wears off as expected. You will need to have family or a friend drive you home for extra safety.

Because the surgery affects this very important muscle group, you should expect to take two to three weeks off work to allow your body and core muscles to recover. During this time, we ask that you avoid strenuous activities that will stress your abdominal muscles.

 The major core muscles that are affected during this procedure are the ones that allow you to stand up and sit straight, lift items, and twist to the side. So, for the first few days, your doctor will ask that you not try to stand up straight; rather, you will be slightly hunched over. After a couple of days, however, your muscles and skin will have stretched sufficiently so that you can comfortably sit and stand up straight.

Following all of your surgeon’s post-operation instructions is also essential to a speedy recovery. While the drains are removed about ten days after the procedure, you may need to wear the binding garment for a longer period of time, depending on the extent of your tummy tuck procedure. This means that patients who have undergone a less-invasive mini-tummy tuck or FAB procedure may experience slightly less downtime than traditional abdominoplasty patients.

You will receive narcotic pain medication to keep you comfortable after your procedure, and your discomfort should feel similar to muscle pain that comes after a hard abdominal workout. You should not expect a large amount of bruising, although patients who receive liposuction will see more bruising than those who have only had the incision and excess trimming performed.