Abdominoplasty, commonly known as ?tummy tuck?, is a surgical procedure ever more frequent in patients who request plastic surgery services. This is due, among other things, to the development of medicine, evolution of surgical techniques and the high levels of security in anesthesia, that as a result have increased the credibility in the specialty. Other reasons for this growing popularity of abdominoplasty are personal factors, such as body weight variations, pregnancy, poor eating habits discipline and sedentarism, changes in shape, volume, skin qualities (such as grooves, flaccidity, elasticity loss), scars from traumas or previous surgeries, variations in navel height, localization, shape, presence or absence of hernias, resistance and strength of the muscular wall, degree of separation of abdominal muscles; also, volume, quantity and distributions of fatty tissue and desire to improve health and physical appearance, are the factors that drives a patient to seek a change in his or her appearance.
This surgery improves the abdominal contour removing excess skin and fat, relocates abdominal muscles and reduces waist diameter reshaping the navel and placing incisions to pubis level, which allows wearing a bikini. The procedure has an approximate duration of 2 and a half hours performed under general or spinal anesthesia. It does not require hospitalization. It is important to rest in bed the day of the surgery, and after that, 5 days of rest at home with moderate physical activity. Office work can continue after 7 days, and gym after 25 days. Sometimes, special sutures are used, which do not need to be removed. Costs for abdominoplasty are more and more affordable, adding to this the continuous divulgation by the media of these surgeries increases the levels of acceptation of these types of procedures, allowing patients to achieve happiness.