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You’re closer to your ideal weight after practicing healthy eating and exercise habits, but you’re still unhappy with the appearance of your abdomen. You might be frustrated that your belly is still flabbier than you’d like it to be, that it retains a bulge you can’t flatten, or that loose, sagging skin makes you embarrassed to show your midriff. You’re considering treatment to take you that last step to a firm, flat, trim midsection, but you’re not sure which to choose.

In this article, we’ll explain your treatment options and help guide you to the best choice, based on your goals.

It’s Your Body, Your Priorities, and Your Choice

Every body is different and responds in different ways to aging, weight changes, and pregnancy. And every individual has different priorities in life — not just about how they look, but how much time they can take for treatment and how quickly they’d like to see results. Here are the key factors to consider as you weigh your treatment options:

Tummy tuck

A tummy tuck is surgery to tighten loose skin, repair weakened and separated abdominal muscles, and remove excess fat. It’s major surgery, but it’s the most transformative of the procedures to repair a flabby, bulging belly. With a tummy tuck, you’ll get a firm, flat, smooth abdomen and a slimmer waistline. If you have loose, sagging skin on your stomach and your belly bulge is from muscles that no longer hold your midsection flat, a tummy tuck is the only procedure that can restore a youthful appearance.

While a tummy tuck can work wonders to improve your appearance, it does require downtime for recovery. Most patients take at least two weeks off from work, and it can take several more weeks before they feel completely back to normal. For a sense of the results you can expect from a tummy tuck, view our before-and-after photo gallery.

Liposuction

Liposuction is a minimally invasive procedure to remove pockets of excess fat. It’s a body-contouring procedure, not an overall weight-loss treatment, as it targets specific areas of diet- and exercise-resistant fat. In liposuction, a thin tube, or cannula, is inserted through small incisions and used to break up and remove fat deposits. The fat cells removed in liposuction are gone forever and they won’t grow back. If you gain weight after treatment, the remaining fat cells will increase in size, but there are fewer of them in the treated area, so your stomach will remain proportionally slimmer. Liposuction does not work to tighten loose skin or repair weakened abdominal muscles.

Most patients need a few days to a week of downtime after liposuction and may have some short-term swelling and bruising. The slimming effects are visible immediately, and final results appear after about three weeks. You can see examples of these results in our before-and-after photo gallery.

CoolScultping

CoolSculpting is a remarkable new treatment that uses precisely controlled cold temperatures to destroy fat cells where excess fat lingers in pinchable bulges. The technology uses a cooling device that surrounds the area to be treated, chilling the fat to the point where it is damaged, without hurting skin, muscle, and other surrounding tissue. In the weeks following treatment, these damaged fat cells are naturally processed out of the body as waste.

You’ll have no downtime after a CoolSculpting session. You can walk out of treatment and go straight back to work or resume your normal activities. Final results appear about three months after treatment, and it can take more than one session to achieve optimal results.

Learn More About Abdominal Treatments in Beverly Hills

Dr. David Kim and Dr. Eugene Kim at Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery have developed an impeccable reputation for stunning, natural-looking cosmetic treatment and plastic surgery results, attracting patients from all over the world. Contact our practice today at (310) 746-5475 or send an online request to schedule a consultation and a recommendation on the abdominal treatment — or treatments — best suited to your needs. For many patients, a combination of procedures is the ideal solution.

Mastopexy, which is popularly called breast lift, is a cosmetic surgery procedure aimed at making the breasts appear tighter and more youthful by gently lifting the breast tissue.

During the breast lift procedure, the surgeon will remove excess skin from the breasts and may also tighten the underlying muscles and reposition the nipples to a raised level.

At the time of initial consultation, the surgeon will carefully determine the patient’s candidacy for breast lift. Splendid, remarkable, and plastic surgeon Dr. David Kim provides breast lift to patients in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and surrounding locations.

Who should choose breast lift surgery?

The surgeon will closely examine a number of physical and other parameters to determine the patient’s candidacy for breast lift plastic surgery. If the patient suffers only from minor skin laxity in the breast area, the surgeon may suggest a non-surgical procedure for maintenance. Some other patients may have significantly drooping breasts to warrant a breast lift surgery.

In some cases, the breasts may have deflated or lost volume. This condition can be corrected with a combination of breast lift and breast augmentation surgery.

If a woman is unhappy with her sagging breast appearance and the nipples are pointing downwards, it may not be possible to reverse the condition with diet or exercise. In such cases, breast lift surgery may be the ideal treatment option. Breasts may droop heavily due to the following reasons:

Characteristics of a Good Candidate

Suitable candidates for breast lift will typically have the following attributes:

Breast Skin has Some Elasticity

If the candidate for breast lift has some amount of natural skin elasticity remaining in the breasts, it will help her achieve more effective results. The surgeon’s goal is to produce most beneficial outcomes, which is possible in such cases.

General Good Health

The surgeon will evaluate the candidate’s general health condition and review her medical records. Breast lift surgery is usually performed using general anesthesia, and the patient should be fit enough to undergo the procedure without any risk factors. The patient should not be suffering from any such health condition that could increase the risk of bleeding or delay healing.

Other Attributes

A suitable candidate for breast lift should ideally be a non-smoker or willing to quit smoking for a minimum time period specified by the surgeon. Candidates who have a positive mindset, clear aesthetic priorities, and realistic expectations will usually achieve the best satisfaction levels from a breast lift surgery.

Shining and caring cosmetic surgeon Dr. David Kim receives patients from Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and other communities and cities in this area of California for breast lift surgery and various other surgical and non-surgical aesthetic procedures.

For more information on the surgical and non-surgical procedures and treatments by Cosmetic Plastic Surgeons Dr. David Kim and Dr. Eugene Kim, contact us (310) 271-6996 at or click here.

Serving Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Orange County, Southern California and surrounding areas.

 

Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery

Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery is one of the pre-eminent cosmetic surgery practices offering cutting edge procedures for the breast, body and face. Dr. David Kim and Dr. Eugene Kim, who head the practice, have been serving the Los Angeles area for a long time and take immense pride in the work they do.

The practice is equipped to provide innovative and advanced procedures, including both surgical and non-surgical. Patients in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, and surrounding locations have an opportunity to receive procedures in a state of the art treatment environment from and prolific plastic surgeons Dr. David Kim and Dr. Eugene Kim.

Meet Dr. David Kim

The reliable and wonderful Dr. David Kim is in plastic surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. This is most authoritative board in the field, and the only plastic surgery board recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties.

Dr. Kim completed his residency training in general surgery from Mt Sinai Hospital from 1993 to 1997, and went on to complete a residency in plastic surgery at Montefiore Medical Center from 1997 to 1999. For the last 18 years, Dr. Kim has been practicing in plastic surgery in Beverly Hills. He is also one of the authors of Skin Deep Magazine.

Meet Dr. Eugene Kim

Dr. Eugene Kim is also in plastic surgery from the American Board of Plastic Surgery. During his training years, Dr. Kim worked with renowned plastic surgeons across the country. He also trained with the world renowned rhinoplasty surgeon Dr. Rollin Daniel to hone his skills in intricate facial procedures such as nose surgery.

Dr. Kim performs a wide range of plastic surgery procedures for the breast, body and face, and customizes each procedure according to the patient’s unique needs. He additionally has extensive experience working with patients of different ethnicities, including Asian patients.

Range of Procedures

Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery offers a comprehensive range of surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures designed to create attractive, youthful and natural looking outcomes. Some of the key procedures provided at the practice include:

Face

Breast

Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery is equipped to provide advanced breast surgery techniques as well as next-generation implants to help patients achieve proportionate and natural looking breasts. Women with sagging breasts can restore perky, lifted breasts with breast lift, while those who have been suffering from oversized breasts can benefit from breast reduction surgery.

Body Contouring

Liposuction and tummy tuck surgery are two of the most popular body contouring surgery procedures performed by Dr. Kim. With innovative techniques, Dr. Kim is able to create highly desirable results in a less invasive manner. For patients who want to achieve targeted fat reduction without surgery, Dr. Kim’s practice is equipped to provide CoolSculpting, which is a unique non-invasive procedure with safe, predictable outcomes.

Nose

Rhinoplasty is one of the procedures where Dr. David Kim has acquired advanced expertise. He also performs ethnic rhinoplasty procedures with outstanding results.

For more information on the surgical and non-surgical procedures and treatments by Cosmetic Plastic Surgeons Dr. David Kim and Dr. Eugene Kim, contact us (310) 271-6996 at or click here.

Serving Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Orange County, Southern California and surrounding areas.