Does tummy tuck help strengthen sagging muscles?

Hanan Abdel Fattah asks, is tummy tucking useful in strengthening sagging muscles and getting rid of fat, and does that prevent pregnancy?

Dr. Ahmed Adel Noureddine, Professor of Plastic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, and Secretary General of the International Society of Plastic Surgery on the Continent of Africa, answers, saying, this process is characterized by many as it deals with the three layers of the abdominal wall through which it can tighten and strengthen the muscles of the abdomen Sagging, getting rid of excess fat under the skin and removing sagging skin, thereby realigning the abdominal area.

He adds this process does not prevent pregnancy but we recommend postponing the pregnancy for a year after the operation so as not to spoil the next pregnancy as a result of the operation, and in this process do not cut the muscles, so the woman's feeling of pain of the operation is not compared to the process of giving birth, for example, in which the abdominal muscles are cut, and the process is The most common at the moment is routinely done with good results, especially if the plastic surgeon takes into account the beauty measures by suctioning a small amount of fat and beautifying the place of surgery and closing the wound aesthetically, and then there will be no damage as the surgeon has to take care to avoid complications.

Dr. Ahmed points out that the effects of this surgery disappear in six months or a year at most, and the experience of the surgeon plays an important role in that, where the wound is originally in an invisible place, and the patient leaves the hospital two days after the operation, and after a week can practice her normal life knowingly.