A Proportionate Buttock Lift
Posted October 13, 2025
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Beautiful Buttocks: Dr. P’s Proportionate Approach
Posted June 12, 2025
By Plastic Surgeon Dr. Chris Patronella I heard something in a patient consultation today for the first time: a woman who said she was tired of her butt looking “flat as a fritter.” It made me laugh and think about all the patients I see who are really apprehensive about having fat put into their […]
Read MoreDr. Patronella’s Advanced Technique to Improve Butt Lift-Lower Body Lift Results
Posted June 28, 2024
By Dr. Chris Patronella One of my favorite procedures in addition to abdominoplasty, the True Form Tummy Tuck®, is something called a lower body lift, also known as a buttock lift. It’s a procedure whereby the extra loose skin in the area above the buttocks is removed, and the buttock and outer thigh area is […]
Read MoreWhat is a Mommy Makeover?
Posted May 06, 2024
By Dr. Chris Patronella Perhaps the most common surgical procedure I do in my practice today is so-called mommy makeover surgery, which is generally comprised of addressing the tummy and the breasts in a woman who’s had children. And that can mean anything from breast augmentation alone after losing volume from breast-feeding to breast augmentation […]
Read MoreThe Drainless Tummy Tuck: Dr. Patronella Uses This Technique to Eliminate Drains During Recovery
Posted January 18, 2024
By Houston Plastic Surgeon Dr. Chris Patronella Named One of “America’s Best Plastic Surgeons” in Newsweek For more than 20 years, I’ve been incorporating a technique called progressive tensions sutures, which has effectively eliminated the need for my patients to wear drains following plastic surgery body contouring procedures. Traditionally, plastic surgeons have used drains […]
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Mini Tummy Tuck Surgery: Plastic Surgeon Dr. Patronella Rarely Recommends It
Plastic Surgeon Dr. Chris Patronella One reason why I don’t favor mini tummy tuck surgery in most of the women I see who desire improvement of the abdomen after childbirth is this the lower abdomen can be flattened, but it would disproportionally affect the unpaired upper abdomen by leaving a bulge in the upper abdomen, […]
Learn MoreMommy Makeover Surgery: Why It’s One of Dr. Patronella’s Favorite Procedures to Perform
By Dr. Chris Patronella Women make a tremendous sacrifice when they have children—a sacrifice that involves their body and their time. And oftentimes, after having children, the body isn’t the way it used to be. It can be very disheartening for a women to know what they had before and to see what they see […]
Learn MoreDiastasis: Why You Can Still Look Pregnant Years After Giving Birth and the Solution to Fix It
By Dr. Chris Patronella Introduction In the patients’ preoperative photos featured in this video, the abdominal appearance is very round and protuberant. No exercise in the world is going to fix this. But it can be surgically-corrected in a tummy tuck procedure. In the patients’ postoperative photos you can see how effective the tummy […]
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