Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty)

Abdominoplasty at Seattle Plastic Surgery Center using standard, Avelar, mini, and reverse techniques. All approaches include muscle plication to repair diastasis recti and restore abdominal wall structure. Often combined with liposuction for comprehensive contouring. Standard and Avelar tummy tuck at $7,485; mini tummy tuck at $6,995; reverse tummy tuck at $12,995. Performed at the JCAHO-accredited facility.

Tummy tuck surgery at Seattle Plastic Surgery Center addresses excess abdominal skin, fat, and muscle laxity following pregnancy, significant weight loss, or natural aging. The clinic offers four distinct abdominoplasty techniques to match the degree of tissue excess and patient anatomy. The standard abdominoplasty creates a hip-to-hip incision just above the pubic hairline, allowing the surgeon to remove a large ellipse of skin and fat from the lower abdomen, repair any diastasis recti (separation of the rectus abdominis muscles) with internal sutures — a process called muscle plication — and reposition the umbilicus to a natural height on the flattened abdominal wall. The Avelar technique is a modified abdominoplasty that uses liposuction as an integral component, combining extensive liposuction of the entire abdominal flap before skin resection; this may preserve more blood supply to the resected flap in some tissue planes and allow treatment of a broader area in a single procedure. The mini tummy tuck ($6,995) uses a shorter incision and addresses only the lower abdominal zone below the umbilicus — suitable for patients with minimal skin excess confined to the lower abdomen without umbilical repositioning needed. The reverse tummy tuck ($12,995) targets upper abdominal skin laxity and is placed at the lower breast fold for patients with excess skin in the upper rather than lower abdomen, often following significant weight loss or prior lower abdominoplasty. Muscle plication is included in all full abdominoplasty variants to restore core support. Combined procedures with liposuction are common, with the first liposuction area available at $2,995. Recovery involves a compression garment, drains for 1–2 weeks, and 2–4 weeks limited activity.