The correction of abdominal, breast, waist and sometimes hip deformations that can be seen in postpartum women in a single session is called Motherhood Aesthetics (Torsoplasty). Although abdominal and breast surgeries seem to be separate procedures, in fact, the breast, abdomen and waist region are a single aesthetic unit. When any of these are corrected on their own, the deformity in the rest attracts more attention.
In the torsoplasty procedure, the breast, abdomen and waist area are intervened at the same time. Breasts are reduced, erected or enlarged and straightened. According to the needs of the patient, liposuction, mini tummy tuck or full tummy tuck is applied to the abdominal area. The lumbar region is shaped.
Back fat is also removed in appropriate patients, and fat injections can be made to the hips if necessary. After birth and breastfeeding, the abdominal wall relaxes, the abdominal skin sags, there is fat around the abdomen and waist, the breasts grow and lose their form. Apart from this, advancing age, excessive weight gain and loss lead to similar problems.
Every patient’s problems are different. Breast reduction, breast lift or breast lift with prosthesis can be performed in the chest area. Full tummy tuck, mini tummy tuck or just liposuction may be sufficient for the abdomen. The waist area is also shaped by liposuction. In appropriate patients, the waist pit is clarified, the hips are plumped by giving fat to the hips.
Applying combined procedures to overweight patients may be risky in terms of health. For this reason, before torsoplasty, patients should be down to the weight they can maintain. The most feared complications in such combined surgeries are bleeding and pulmonary embolism. This risk is higher in elderly people, obese and diabetic patients and in heavy smokers. Patients with excess weight are recommended to lose weight before surgery. Another problem is skin losses and the fact that wounds do not heal.
Preoperative planning errors, excessive skin removal, poor bleeding control and smoking increase such problems. Problems such as serum accumulation under the skin may also be encountered a few weeks after surgery. In such a case, it may be necessary to drain the serum with the help of an injector. Problems such as excessive scarring on the abdomen and some skin types that are closed very tense may occur. If this situation is due to tension, a revision procedure can be performed under local anesthesia to thin the scar after one year.
The patient’s health cannot be put at risk for any aesthetic surgery. People who are overweight, older, have other health problems, have diabetes, smoke a lot are not suitable for combined surgeries. It is not right to perform surgery in such patients without correcting the conditions. In patients with a risk of combined surgery, breast and abdominal surgeries are performed in separate sessions.
Solving the problems in the abdomen, chest and waist region with a single surgery gives the patient a brand new appearance, increases his self-confidence and changes his stance towards life. It is also economically more advantageous to have several surgeries at once.
