Patient education
Tummy Tuck Decision Guides
Twelve patient guides to deciding about abdominoplasty — candidacy, muscle separation, seroma and clot risk, recovery, scars and drains, timing, and the honest reasons to wait.
All guides
12 guides
- Is a Tummy Tuck Right for Me?The Decision
- A Tummy Tuck Is Not a Weight-Loss OperationThe Honest Limit
- Diastasis Recti: When Separated Muscles Are the Real ProblemThe Functional Problem
- Seroma After a Tummy Tuck: The Complication to Know FirstRisks
- Clot Risk and Tummy Tuck: How Prevention Is PlannedRisks
- The Tummy Tuck Candidate ChecklistCandidacy
- The First Weeks After a Tummy TuckRecovery
- Tummy Tuck Scars and Drains: What to ExpectRecovery
- Tummy Tuck or Liposuction? Matching the Operation to the ProblemChoosing Between Operations
- Tummy Tuck After Major Weight LossSequencing
- Timing a Tummy Tuck Around Pregnancy and Weight ChangeSequencing
- When Not to Have a Tummy TuckSaying No
Still deciding whether a tummy tuck is right for you?
Reach out for an assessment. We will examine the abdominal wall and the skin, measure any separation of the muscles, explain which operation fits and what it leaves behind, and set out the plan for fluid and for clot prevention. If the honest answer is to wait, we will say so.