When you look good, you feel good. Even people who eat right and exercise have stubborn areas that keep them from feeling confident in swimsuits or certain clothes. This is where body contouring can help.

In many cases, no amount of diet or exercise will restore the abdomen to youthful flatness.

If you've experienced stretching from pregnancy, have excess skin after substantial weight loss, or have scars of the abdominal area, you might consider abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) to improve your body contour.

Body contouring procedures are not performed in order to achieve weight loss, but rather are designed to improve and reshape the contour of various body areas. Obviously some weight will be lost with abdominoplasty and liposuction, though this is not the primary goal.