Find a different plastic surgeon!!!
Dr rochlin did my tummy tuck and I'm so embarrassed by the results. I'm in a bathing suit in Hawaii now, with my tummy fully covered, the opposite of what I was hoping for.
My procedure was two years ago, April 2016. When it was done, my belly-button was off-center and 2 1/2 inches tall. She said it would be an innie, but it's the biggest ugliest, outie you've ever seen. It literally protrudes from my stomach.
And then there were my stitches. They were made of barbed suture material. Rather than dissolving inside me, they made multiple sores in my incision and worked their way out of my body, until my scar looked like I had been cut open by a chain-saw. I cannot express to you the pain I went through during this "healing" process that took months. I have pictures of all of it, but Google won't let me post them.
In October of 2016, I went for my 3rd or 4th post-op and she said everything looked beautiful. I told her I was unhappy with all of it and she reassured me I looked great. It wasn't until I burst into tears, crying about my humongous belly-button and the fact that my scar looked like a chain-saw wound that she finally listened to me and understood I wasn't happy. I had told her multiple times, but she just poo-pooed it all away and said everything would be fine.
She scheduled me for an in office scar revision. I didn't get completely numb. There was a section on my right hip where I could still feel. SHE DID THE PROCEDURE ANYWAY!!! I could feel all of the cutting, scraping and stitching in that area and it was EXCRUCIATING!! I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but that was insanity.
While she was re-doing my belly-button, I asked her to make it as small as she could. Her assistant assured me it was tiny and dainty. ---It's still an inch and a half tall and protrudes from my belly---
Which is why I'm lying here in the sun, in Hawaii, wearing a full piece swimming suit.
I have friends who have had tummy tucks since mine who look amazing.
I REALLY wish I had gone with another doctor.
ANY other doctor...