Pregnancy, weight loss, muscle separation, a stubborn bulge, or just gravity can all leave your tummy looking the worse for wear. It may get to the point of interfering with simple daily activities and often makes fitting into flattering clothes progressively more difficult. Sometimes scars from previous operations on your abdomen may be contributing to the problem.

What causes tummy bulges?
The three most common factors leading to abdominal bulges are excess fat, stretched skin, and muscle laxity or separation. Weight loss and exercise can make a big difference to the excess fat, and muscle laxity, but skin excess and muscle separation are much less likely to improve with these measures.

What options are there?
Certainly weight loss and exercise are important in achieving a nice tummy, but all too often, persistent skin excess or muscle separation prevent all your best efforts from achieving a comfortable abdominal shape. The surgical options depend on an assessment of all of the above causes of tummy bulging, to see which factors are leading to your problem.

Some of the procedures often used here include liposuction, removing skin excess, and tightening the muscles of the tummy wall. Two or more of these techniques are often combined to achieve the best result. Make an appointment to have Dr. Vazquez tell you which procedure will help you achieve the result you desire.