Flipping through her friend’s wedding album, Sharron Taylor burned with jealousy. It wasn’t that she was desperate to meet that special someone, settle down and get married. Oh no, Sharron, 37, had done the big white wedding years before, she had a wonderful husband, Mark, 38, and two lovely daughters, Millie, six, and Tegan, three. No, it was the fact that apart from the memories she carried in her head, she had no record of her big day. She hadn’t even had a professional photographer. It was strange, but her husband, Mark, had left all the arrangements to her and when her friends would ask, ‘Oh, we can’t afford one,’ she would say just to shut them up.
But it wasn’t the money that was the problem, it was his chin. Sharron inherited it from his mother, Edna’s side of the family, but while his mother’s was only slightly affected, Sharron’s was far worse. In fact, he was so inverted that he didn’t seem to have a chin at all. His face just blended with his neck. At school, she had been bullied terribly. As expected, he had made her incredibly self-conscious. Even as an adult, Sharron always spoke with a hand over her mouth and desperately tried not to be seen from her side profile. But she didn’t even know her mother or Mark how much she hated him. Sharron was even afraid to stop at her lights in case other drivers saw her. So when she married Mark, an access operator driver, it was natural to ban photography at the wedding. And when she gave birth to two beautiful children: ‘Don’t take me in the pictures!’ she resigned. In fact, there was a grand total of only four photos of her with them.
But then last October, mom Edna announced that she was spending money on a face lift. Sharron was delighted for her and couldn’t wait to see the results for her. She was speechless when she saw her mother for the first time after the operation. Edna not only looked 10 years younger, now, after almost 60 years, she had a perfect chin. “The surgeon also placed a chin implant,” she explained to Sharron.
Trasie Inkersole is 46 years old and the proud owner of a really flat stomach. But she wasn’t always like this. Before undergoing upper abdominal surgery, Ella Trasie had a spare tire that just wouldn’t go away. “I wanted to get a tummy tuck because I was always aware of this horrible bulge that seemed to marry my breasts every time I sat down,” she says. “I never knew where my belly ended and my breasts began. As a result, I was starting to slouch, so I decided to do something about it.”
“After speaking with a friend, I met with a South African plastic surgeon at The Rosebank Clinic. I decided he was the right man to operate on me.” This was not Trasie’s first cosmetic procedure: she underwent a lower abdominal tummy tuck when she was 24 years old and was very happy with it. However, she says, fools in the UK didn’t seem to think an upper tummy tuck would be beneficial. “One decided to try it, but the effects were not good and she still had a lump and the scar was very ugly,” she explains. “Dr. Fayman was very confident that he could help me and he explained that the muscles in my belly should have been tightened during the operations. With all the information he needed, I decided to go ahead.”
Trasie flew to South Africa for the operation, joined the ‘safari and surgery’ group and describes her experience as “brilliant. I had the operation in the morning and by afternoon I was up and chatting with the other people who had come to the clinic for different operations. “I was amazed, I had no pain afterwards, not even a twinge! In contrast, the operation I had in the UK was agony and I couldn’t move for days. I too had waddled for two weeks, not daring to straighten up, but here I was, on my feet, within hours of surgery. It was really amazing. “
Trasie says that although her abdomen was slightly swollen for a few weeks after the procedure, the overall effect was fantastic. “It was as flat as a pancake and had a perfect scar. I went to South Africa wearing a size 18 and within a week I was buying a size 14 and I’m still wearing a 14. All my family and friends were amazed and couldn’t believe the results. As a result, many of them have either had surgery or are thinking of going to SA for surgery in the future.” Trasie’s surgeon, Dr. Fayman, says that loose upper stomach is a problem that typically affects men and women after major weight loss, or younger women after pregnancies.
The typical tummy tuck operation is performed through an incision that runs from side to side across the body, along the natural crease in the lower abdomen, and is most successful in treating loose skin and loose muscles, preferably in the lower abdomen. the abdomen in the area between the navel and the pubic area.
However, conventional tummy tucks are less successful in treating sagging soft tissue, and particularly skin, in the upper abdomen, an area that is quite remote from the lower abdominal incision.
According to Trasie surgeon Dr. Fayman, the upper tummy tuck has been described in the professional literature since 1923 and has gained popularity primarily in Brazil, but is now adopted by plastic surgeons around the world. It can be combined with liposuction in the abdomen, which means that the results can be even more spectacular.
Medical
Dr Moshe Fayman
Moshe (Miki) Fayman, MD FCS is a Board Certified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon in private practice in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Fayman has dedicated his life’s work to helping people improve their appearance through Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery.