It’s a surgical procedure, whose purpose is to remove skin and fat excess from the lower and middle part of the abdomen, besides tightening the muscle of the region if necessary, achieving a flat, firm abdomen without skin excess.
Candidates for an abdominoplasty are those patients who are more or less at their ideal weight, but suffer from a bulky and loose abdomen, due to factors such as pregnancies or inability to reduce the abdomen despite physical exercise or diet.
For this type of surgery, it’s important that the patient does not smoke or has stopped smoking at least six months before the intervention, and has to be approximately at its ideal weight.