New Techniques

There are several and advanced techniques to show the waist women have always dream about, among these are the CIAO technique, the tummy tuck and the ultrasonic liposculpture.

Techniques evolve and develops through out time and each technique differs according to certain aspects of the patient. For instance, in order to evaluate a body for a liposculpture procedure, different aspects have to be taken into account like the skin type; tonicity of the abdominal muscles; characteristic of the thorax, hips and thighs; as well as the proportions between body parts. Dr. Gonzalez always analyzes these and other factors in order to select the type of technique and technology to be practiced on a patient.

- Liposuction or ultrasonic liposculpture: extraction of located fat. Two scars of 5 millimeters located above the pubis and at the pleat of the gluteus.

- Mini-lipectomy with muscular mooring: stretching of the skin located under the navel to move away the flaccidity. This procedures is associated to muscular mooring of the navel downwards to remove that "belly" and to improve the conformation of the waist. The scar is located above the pubis and is approximately 12 to 16 cm of length.

- Mini-lipectomy associated to liposuction: is the combination of the two previous techniques to give a larger conformation so that the component of fat is removed together with the muscle-cutaneous one.

- Lipectomy or abdominoplasty: consists on the stretching of the skin from the pubis up to the xiphoid (bony prominence located in the middle of the thorax) where is carried out a xiphopubic muscular mooring associated with the resection of the born skin and also with the transposition of the navel (transposition: to change the location of the navel according to the skin relocation so that it is situated in the same place before the stretching). The scar is laterally located around the navel and above the pubis with a length that varies from 28 up to 40 centimeters.

-CIAO Technique (Defined Waist, Flat Abdomen, Relocated Navel): based on remodeling the waist thanks to the xipho-pubic muscular mooring and the re-location of the navel without scar in itself. The scar is at the pubis level - 12 to 16 centimeters- a minimum scar.

In general terms, in plastic surgery there are many techniques but the most important thing is the vision and the surgeon's experience to define which one is the most convenient one in order to achieve a natural result, small scars and the least incapacity