What is a Smart Tummy Tuck?

So if somebody has accumulated at the lower abdomen and upper abdomen, you can always debulk that, reduce the fat with liposuction. There's different ways to do liposuction. There's power assisted, there's ultrasound assisted, there's laser liposuction. I prefer power assisted liposuction. I feel like I have a lot of control with it, and that's most important to me. So how do I get a better skin tightening result when we're doing this, if in fact they're older? So if you use equipment to tighten the skin, like body tight, like morphe, say like fractura, you can get about 30% more skin tightening. So body tight can be done through small openings inside the inner diameter of the belly button. And you can hide all this pretty easily. So once you fill the area with fluid before you do liposuction, you can actually do the body tight. You just use layer ultrasound gel. And body type is like a pair of electrified forceps. One limb goes beneath the skin, one's above the skin, and you treat these areas. Think of like a pie chart. Just do it in quadrants. We use a thermographic camera to evaluate the intensity of the treatment coupled to the feedback of the machine. And, you know, I won't parse it out too much, but after a limited treatment time, you can actually have tightened the skin in real time. Then you can go and do the liposuction. You can thin this out, you can debulk areas without a great deal of concern for loosening up the skin too much. At the very, very end, once everything's cleansed and closed, all your incisions are closed, and I glue everything shut. So there's really limited chance for any type of bacterial infection. Then we'll do microneedling. And first I'll start with like a Morpheus 8. Microneedling at different depths, 4 millimeters, usually down to 3 to. If there's a lot of stretch marks, I like to use the Fraktor microneedling device. It's a fixed microneedling device, but it really works on superficial texture issues like stretch marks. And that's really all told to smart. Tummy tuck takes a couple hours in the office under local.