Hybrid Tummy Tuck
Pregnancy and childbirth put high amounts of stress on your body, resulting in significant changes. These changes in your body can lead to dissatisfaction and decreased self-esteem. One way to help you retake your body is Dr. Brent Moelleken’s signature Hybrid Tummy Tuck®.
What is Hybrid Tummy Tuck?
As with every procedure he implements, Dr. Moelleken works diligently and professionally with patients. He works to ensure they achieve and accomplish their ultimate goals. The precise treatment plan requires a customized surgical approach tailored to each specific patient.
The Hybrid Tummy Tuck is unique, effective, and has a much faster recovery rate than traditional methods. Dr. Moelleken’s patients receive a better plastic surgery experience because of this popular hybrid abdominoplasty.
Women who have had children especially can benefit from this unique procedure. Pregnancy can often leave you with a bulge similar to a hernia. The physical strain of pregnancy can tear a woman’s abdominal muscles.
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Why Choose Hybrid Tuck?
Smaller Incision
The Hybrid Tummy Tuck® is a short incision procedure that tightens the entire abdominal fascia. Hybrid differs from a traditional tummy tuck in that the incision is very short. It is approximately the same as for a C-section rather than a hip-to-hip incision.
One of Many Options
Determining the Best Option
The best technique for the patient depends on a few factors. These include:
- How loose the skin is
- How loose the underlying layer (fascia) is
- Whether or not there is the extra fat that can be reduced
The Strain of Pregnancy
When a child is in the womb, the actual space the baby takes up is enormous. It is not just the weight of the baby. It is also the placenta and fluid. Together it all combines to 15-18 pounds that are sitting in the abdomen. Since the fascia is the skin or layer of the muscle, the layer gets stretched out in pregnancy. In most cases, that layer does not fully return to its original form. The result is a bulge.
What Happens During a Hybrid Tummy Tuck?
A common misconception is that this procedure involves tightening the muscle. However, Dr. Moelleken actually tightens the lining of the muscle because that is what gets stretched out. If the area is loose above and below the belly button, he will tighten tissue from the breast bone to the pubic area.
He suggests thinking of this procedure as a patient being laced up and tightened through an internal corset. Your waist will get smaller, allowing the bulges in the lower abdomen to shrink as well.
The Hybrid Tummy Tuck® involves a C-section type incision for the full tightening of the deep fascia. According to Dr. Moelleken, he designed this technique to be able to go in through existing C-section scars. The idea is to prevent plastic surgeons from having to leave their patients with new scar tissue on their abdomens. If a patient does not have an existing C-section scar, Dr. Moelleken will make a small incision near the pubic area.
