Removes some excess fat. Helps decrease stretch marks. Scar around belly-button. Recovery time 1-3 weeks. You want to be certain the answer is yes to all of these before deciding.
All cosmetic surgery is prepaid, but various financing options are available.
It is not appropriate for health insurance to cover cosmetic surgery, and abdominoplasty is almost always cosmetic surgery. In some rare situations, such as after massive weight loss, or presence of an abdominal hernia or similar problem, health insurance assistance may be appropriate, and only in such a case would Dr. Dowden submit abdominoplasty to a patient's insurance company. Complications are very unlikely after cosmetic surgery, but can occur in a very small percentage of patients, even in the hands of a highly skilled and qualified plastic surgeon. Any operation carries the possibility of anesthetic risks, bleeding, infection, suboptimal scarring, and poor healing. Rarely there can be numbness, skin irregularity, fluid pockets, and discoloration after abdominoplasty.