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now i'd like to talk to youabout the mini tummy tuck. remember that this procedureis indicated for people who basically have problemsbelow their belly button. let me show you what i mean. so just for orientationthis is the pubic area. here's the belly buttonand here are the ribs. now, i've already talkeda little bit about the incisionin the introduction. but one of the big benefitsof a mini tummy tuck is

the incisionis significantly shorter than that for a full tummy tuck. and we can put the incisionextremely low, as low as we want. so, oftenthe incision will run just at the top partof the pubic area. it will still followthe groin crease up a little bit, but it will besomething like this, okay.

you know, it's still a fairlylengthy incision. but it's not going allthe way to the sides like a full tummy tuck. i'll then go downto the muscle. and i'll lift all the skinand the fat off the muscle all the way upto the belly button. and then we'll pull all thatextra skin and fat down and remove the extra. and in a mini tummy tuck,

i can generally get outabout half the distance between the belly buttonand the pubic area. so something like this. so we're gonna removesomething like that. all the skin and the fat and the stretchmarks in this area goes. second thing we'regonna do is, we're going to repair thestretched abdominal muscles. so, again, the abdominalmuscles are stretched apart.

usually something like that,okay. creating a bit of a paunch. and what we'll do is i'm gonna stitch these musclesback together which is gonnahelp to flatten the tummy. and even maybe pullthe sides in a little bit. and then finally, we'regonna do some liposuction. we're gonna liposuctionaround the sides here, in this area, and over here.

these are the love handles,or the muffin top. and i will usually alsoliposuction what's left behindbelow the belly button. all of this will fit inthat ebb as well. now, if there's some fat accumulatingabove the belly button, we may even do a little bit ofliposuction up in here, even thoughit's a mini tummy tuck. so the advantages to the minitummy tuck are,

number one,a shorter incision as compared toa full tummy tuck. number two,there is no incision around the belly button. so there's no scar therewhatsoever. and number three,i find that the downward pullon the skin often will give a pleasingshape to the belly button. [music]