Tummy Tuck Before & After Case 704

This is a case of a 62-year-old mother of three, standing 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds. She lost 25 pounds with the help of a dietician and lifestyle changes. She now feels more energetic and engages in water aerobics during warm weather and treadmill walking during colder months. Her A1C is at 5.9. Ready to move forward with surgery, she wanted to address the skin laxity in her abdomen and inner knees, which had worsened with weight loss, while avoiding excessive downtime.

I informed the patient that she was not a good candidate for liposuction alone, as it would increase skin laxity and create contour irregularities in the abdomen. Since she lives an hour away from my Upper-Kirby office in Houston, frequent visits to my onsite medical spa for additional non-surgical body contouring treatments such as EvolveX or Morpheus8Body were not ideal. To improve contour while keeping downtime minimal, I recommended a skin-only tummy tuck without muscle plication. We also discussed radio-frequency-assisted liposuction for her inner knees to address lipodystrophy.

We discussed that she would need medical clearance prior to surgery and would need to avoid water aerobics for six weeks post-surgery, though she could resume other non-water exercises sooner.

She is seen here before and six weeks after surgery. During the procedure, 113 grams of excess skin were removed via the tummy tuck. Liposuction was performed, removing 900 ccs of lipoaspirate from the right thigh and 850 ccs from the left thigh, followed by JPlasma (also known as Renuvion) to tighten the skin in this area.

Not only has she achieved the physical transformation she desired, but her recovery was manageable and did not disrupt her routine. This successful procedure attests to the kind of cutting-edge yet personalized care I, Dr. Camille Cash, offer at my Houston practice. My goal is to ensure that every procedure performed under my care makes a significant impact on the quality of my patient's life.