Tummy Tucks for Men

00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:09.409 The most common time I do a tummy tuck in men, 00:00:09.543 --> 00:00:12.045 is going to be for patients who have lost a lot of weight. 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:13.847 They've gained weight, and they've lost it. 00:00:13.914 --> 00:00:15.415 That's one way, like we talked about earlier, 00:00:15.482 --> 00:00:19.152 that the skin might have been stretched, but sometimes the patient might again, 00:00:19.219 --> 00:00:21.088 need a mini tummy tuck and not a full. 00:00:21.788 --> 00:00:24.591 I tend to do more mini tummy tucks on males 00:00:24.658 --> 00:00:26.927 because it's just less obvious, 00:00:27.094 --> 00:00:30.264 and guys might have a little bit of a lower pooch, 00:00:30.330 --> 00:00:32.199 but not have stretched the skin out so much. 00:00:32.266 --> 00:00:35.169 I mean, you really have to have stretched the skin out quite a bit 00:00:35.235 --> 00:00:37.004 from pregnancy or weight loss, 00:00:37.070 --> 00:00:41.074 to have enough laxity above the belly button to pull that down. 00:00:41.141 --> 00:00:45.112 The other thing that my male patients are probably hyper-concerned about 00:00:45.179 --> 00:00:47.552 is the scar itself and the visibility of it 00:00:47.618 --> 00:00:52.853 because they want to keep it very low, below their shorts or pants. 00:00:53.687 --> 00:00:56.657 With a mini tummy tuck, I'm able to get that very, very low, 00:00:57.858 --> 00:00:59.526 and oftentimes it's shorter. 00:01:00.127 --> 00:01:01.595 Liposuction with the tummy tuck for men 00:01:01.662 --> 00:01:04.331 is necessary for the same reason I just described for women: 00:01:04.398 --> 00:01:08.669 because you are trying to unveil the inner core, right? 00:01:08.735 --> 00:01:10.370 The underlying musculature. 00:01:10.771 --> 00:01:12.339 Now, for men, it is a little more boxy 00:01:12.406 --> 00:01:15.742 with a more V, but maybe some more central contouring. 00:01:16.443 --> 00:01:19.046 I do the liposuction differently for men. 00:01:19.112 --> 00:01:23.317 If I can enhance the results even more than what they could ever get in the gym, 00:01:23.383 --> 00:01:25.719 but keep it natural, then why wouldn't I do that 00:01:25.786 --> 00:01:26.854 if they want me to? 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:28.956 But if they don't want me to, that's okay too. 00:01:29.022 --> 00:01:32.359 It's really having the ability to do all those forms 00:01:32.793 --> 00:01:36.263 and talk to the patient about how am I going to do the liposuction, 00:01:36.330 --> 00:01:37.831 what would you like to have? 00:01:37.998 --> 00:01:42.569 And if I make it a little ultra real, is that something they want? 00:01:42.636 --> 00:01:43.770 Most of the time, they do. 00:01:43.837 --> 00:01:46.173 The thing I would add about tummy tucks for men, just for last, 00:01:46.240 --> 00:01:48.208 is that there are a lot of ways to mess this up. 00:01:48.275 --> 00:01:53.347 Tummy tucks for men and any kind of liposuction or that kind of thing, 00:01:54.114 --> 00:01:58.385 it does not have to be run through the cookie cutter or the mill. 00:01:58.919 --> 00:02:01.221 It can be very specific and very tailored. 00:02:01.288 --> 00:02:04.358 Using some of the newer techniques and technology, 00:02:04.791 --> 00:02:07.528 you can get a really enhanced result that looks awesome, 00:02:07.594 --> 00:02:11.198 but not have to have some terrible recovery or some terrible scar. 00:02:11.698 --> 00:02:14.334 If you just take those things into consideration 00:02:14.401 --> 00:02:16.303 and know how to do them and implement them, 00:02:16.387 --> 00:02:18.172 you can get a really awesome result. 00:02:18.238 --> 00:02:20.440 But there are ways to fix a lot of these things 00:02:20.807 --> 00:02:22.209 that can be done naturally. 00:02:22.576 --> 00:02:24.111 The recovery is pretty easy, 00:02:24.278 --> 00:02:28.482 and then that issue that you've always lived with is gone. 00:02:29.316 --> 00:02:30.784 That's the beauty of it.