By improving the quality of the results and by allowing an extension of the indications of abdominal plasty, liposuction transforms this operation into a true "aesthetic" procedure. The umbilicus is no longer a closed lock and its treatment allows classification of abdominal plasties into abdominiplasties which concern the infraumbilical abdomen and abdomaxiplasties, involving the entire abdomen with reimplantation or repositioning of the umbilicus.
