What is a Mommy Makeover?

Описание: What is a Mommy Makeover?

The miraculous privilege of bringing new life into the world and creating a family carries with it one particular consequence that for most of human history has been something that a woman just had to accept and live with: the changes in body contour that result from pregnancy. Deflated and/or droopy breasts, excess abdominal skin, weakness in the abdominal wall; all the issues that can be minimized or concealed with appropriate attire and supportive undergarments, but that are an unavoidable reality in an intimate setting.

It is only the last two generations of mommies that have had the luxury of surgically improving, if they so desire, the post-pregnancy changes in body contour about which they are self-conscious. And it is really only in the last ten to fifteen years or so that the simultaneous surgical treatment of breast contour and abdominal contour – what we now refer to as a ‘mommy makeover’ – has become a universally accepted and widely practiced technique amongst board-certified aesthetic plastic surgeons.

The specific procedures that comprise your mommy makeover should be completely customized to your individual needs. The breast procedure may be any of the following:

Breast augmentation
Breast reduction
Breast lift (mastopexy)
Augmentation mastopexy (breast lift + implant placement)
Auto-augmentation mastopexy (breast lift with upper pole augmentation using lower pole breast tissue)

Likewise, the abdominal procedure may be any of the following:

Abdominoplasty
Mini-abdominoplasty
Extended mini-abdominoplasty
Anchor abdominoplasty
Reverse upper / modified lower abdominoplasty (skin excision below breasts and in lower abdomen)
Lower abdominal skin excision and liposuction.

This is not ‘cookie cutter’ surgery. No two patients are exactly alike, and therefore no two mommy makeover surgeries should be exactly alike. Thoughtful preoperative planning is one of the most important keys to a successful outcome. As a surgeon, the patient evaluation and surgery planning process is interesting and challenging, both from a medical and artistic perspective. A talented surgeon enjoys this process, and that should be evident to you at the consultation appointment.

Obviously there are a lot of issues for the surgeon to consider at your consultation appointment when examining you and formulating your customized surgical plan. This takes time, and for this reason in my practice we extended the consultation time from one hour to one hour fifteen minutes. Putting the plan together, explaining the rationale for the plan (I draw on patients – with their permission of course – using dry-erase makers to explain my thinking and to outline the surgical plan and location of incisions, scars, etc), and providing important information about the recovery and the means by which complications can be avoided cannot be accomplished in less than an hour. So if you do not receive this kind of evaluation at your physician consultation, you may want to think twice about going forward with surgery in that practice.

Michael Law MD Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
10941 Raven Ridge Rd #101,
Raleigh, NC 27614,
919-256-0900
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