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Tummy Tuck in Dortmund: Methods and Recovery

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Tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) in Dortmund: price and key facts

Tummy tuck for patients from Dortmund at City Medical Centre starts at €2,150 (from $2,400). The first online consultation is free; the doctor names the final price and it is fixed in the contract.

Price
€2,150 (from $2,400)
Duration
2–4 hours
Anesthesia
general
Stay
1–3 days
Recovery
back to work after 2–3 weeks
Final result
6–12 months after surgery
How it works
Send photos on WhatsApp or Telegram, get a free doctor assessment and the price, then confirm the plan and dates before anything is booked.

How it works · Tummy tuck prices

Information current as of 5 November 2026

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Results

Tummy tuck results
of our patients

All cases are real patients. Faces and identifying details are hidden.

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Comparison

Tummy tuck techniques

A tummy tuck is done as a full (classic) or mini operation, or combined with liposuction as lipoabdominoplasty. Compare the scope of surgery, the indications and the expected results to choose the right technique together with your surgeon.

Tummy tuck

Removal of excess skin, abdominal muscle tightening

Tummy tuck diagram: the abdomen before surgery with the incision line, and the result
Main goal
Removal of excess skin, diastasis repair
When it is done
Excess skin after childbirth or weight loss
Anaesthesia and stay
General anaesthesia, up to 3 days in hospital

Lipoabdominoplasty

Tummy tuck with added liposuction

Lipoabdominoplasty diagram: the abdomen with fat on the flanks before surgery, and the result
Main goal
Tummy tightening and waist contouring
When it is done
For fat deposits on the flanks and waist
Anaesthesia and stay
General anaesthesia, up to 3 days in hospital

The benefits and recovery times shown are averaged for each technique and given for guidance: the scope of correction and rehabilitation depend on your anatomy and individual features, and the surgeon confirms them at the consultation.

At the consultation the surgeon draws up a plan for your case and explains how your tummy tuck will go.

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Tummy tuck from the inside

About the clinic

A clinic where you can feel at ease

Modern equipment, comfortable rooms and care for every patient

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A tummy tuck is not for everyone

If your case can be solved without surgery, the doctor will tell you so at the consultation — and you will not spend money for nothing.

Suitable

A surgeon shows a patient on a model and a monitor how the abdominal contour changes after a tummy tuck
  • Rectus abdominis diastasis
  • Skin folds after weight loss
  • Loose abdominal skin
  • Stretched skin after pregnancy
  • A distorted abdominal contour

Not suitable

A surgeon discusses the indications and contraindications for a tummy tuck with a patient
  • Acute infections
  • Significant disease of the heart, kidneys or liver
  • Disorders of blood clotting
  • Age below 18
  • Decompensated diabetes
  • Cancer
  • Skin inflammation in the surgical area
  • Currently pregnant or breastfeeding

Not sure the surgery is right for you?

Leave your details — the coordinator will contact you, and the surgeon will tell you whether a tummy tuck suits you. No surgery booking needed.

Find out if it suits me
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Prices

You know the price
before surgery

The price is set at the consultation and fixed in the contract.

Other services

  • First consultationFree
  • Liposuction of the abdomen and flanksfrom $1,700
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Find out your tummy tuck plan and price

The surgeon assesses your abdominal skin and muscles, listens to your wishes and chooses the right correction technique.
The price is set at the consultation and fixed in the contract.

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all inclusive

What the price includes

From preparation for surgery
to post-op check-ups.

  • All scheduled dressings
  • Scheduled post-op check-ups
  • A personal coordinator on call
  • Compression garments fitted on the day of surgery
  • A stay in a comfortable
    hospital ward with meals
  • Individual recommendations
    for recovery
  • Remote progress monitoring
    by photos

How it works

Three days at the clinic —
from preparation to discharge

An agreed correction plan, inpatient observation and post-op check-ups.

A doctor shows a patient a tummy tuck diagram on a monitor1

Consultation
and the surgical plan

The surgeon assesses your abdominal skin and muscles and checks for diastasis, listens to your wishes and chooses the right correction technique.

Paying the deposit by card at the clinic reception2

Booking the date
of surgery

We reserve a surgery date for you: the deposit can be paid by card at the clinic or online by bank transfer. The terms are fixed in the contract for medical services

A blood sample tube for tests before a tummy tuck3

Check-up before
surgery

Before surgery you complete a full lab check-up: blood tests, an ECG, a chest X-ray and reports from the required specialists.

The surgical team during the operation4

Surgery

The surgeon performs the tummy tuck with the chosen technique, repairs diastasis if needed and shapes a firmer abdominal contour.

A hospital ward at the clinic5

Inpatient stay

After surgery the patient stays for 1–3 days in a comfortable hospital ward with meals, under medical supervision.

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Recovery

After surgery you get a recovery programme. Check-ups at 7 days, 3 and 6 months help track your recovery.

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How it really happens

Recovery after a tummy tuck

Right after surgery the patient stays in hospital for 1–3 days under medical supervision. Drains are usually removed after two days and stitches after 7 days. A compression binder is worn for 1.5–2 months — it supports the abdominal wall and shapes a smooth contour. Most swelling goes within 30 days; office work resumes after 2–3 weeks. Sports, sauna and heavy lifting are off-limits for 2–3 months; at first, sleeping on your back with knees bent is advised. By 12 months the scar is fully mature: it fades and is barely noticeable.

Post-op check-ups

After 7 days, at 3 months and at 6 months. Until the end of the year, get a post-surgery consultation with your surgeon to review results and get more information, at the clinic's expense

Advantages

Reasons to choose City Medical Centre

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Just find out — you lose nothing

At the consultation we discuss your wishes and assess your abdominal skin and muscles. The surgeon explains what changes are possible, chooses the correction technique and answers your questions.

A surgeon on a video call with a patient after surgery

We stay with you after surgery

The surgeon follows your recovery and the changing abdominal contour at check-ups after 7 days, 3 and 6 months. Check-ups, dressings and aftercare advice are already included in the price of surgery.

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A beautiful contour that fits your figure

We choose the correction technique based on your skin, muscles and figure. Our aim is a harmonious abdominal contour that keeps the natural proportions of your body.

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Your schedule is our priority

We respect your time: we work 24/7, with easy booking and a personal approach — we adapt to your pace.

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Fixed prices

After the consultation the surgeon defines the extent of correction, and you get a clear price for the surgery — no surprises on the way to the result you want.

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Round-the-clock care after surgery

Recovery starts in a comfortable hospital ward under round-the-clock nursing care. The stay and meals are already included in the price.

FAQ

We answer what
people ask before booking

Tummy tuck in Dortmund: techniques, stages and recovery

An overhanging apron of skin, a belly that stays rounded despite training, a stretched area above a C-section scar: these are the usual reasons people in Dortmund look into a tummy tuck. The operation tightens the front abdominal wall rather than reducing weight. With a small amount of excess skin, a mini tummy tuck may be enough; with marked changes, the classic technique is chosen.

In the classic operation the surgeon makes a horizontal incision above the pubic area, its length set by the amount of excess tissue. The separated rectus muscles are repaired, excess skin and fat are removed, the navel is repositioned and drains are placed. The mini version works only on the lower abdomen through a shorter incision. Patients from Dortmund are under general anaesthesia throughout.

Budget planning starts with a conversation, not a price list. At the free consultation the surgeon explains what your case requires and gives a figure that does not change later: it goes into the contract with no hidden charges. The clinic has 400+ successful surgeries and 10 years of abdominal surgery experience. Patients from Dortmund simply leave a phone number to begin.

A city built by mining families: Nordstadt, Eving and the Dortmund of today

Much of Dortmund's character comes from the decades when collieries and steelworks hired faster than the city could build. The Nordstadt was laid out between 1858 and 1913 as a workers' district, and in Eving the mining company built the Alte Kolonie in 1898-1899, a protected settlement that originally had 76 houses with 270 flats for miners recruited from elsewhere. Both are still lived in today.

The population followed industry. Dortmund reached its all-time high of around 658,000 people in 1965, fell as mines and blast furnaces closed, and has since grown again: the official count was 600,880 on 31 December 2025, the largest in the Ruhr. Roughly 22 percent of residents hold a non-German citizenship, and about 53,500 students are enrolled at the city's six universities and colleges, so Dortmund today is a far more mixed city than the coal town it grew from.

The usual reasons for a tummy tuck are the same in Dortmund as anywhere: excess skin and separated abdominal muscles that persist after childbirth, a C-section or major weight loss. Neither diet nor exercise tightens stretched skin or brings separated rectus muscles back together, which is why the surgeon first checks for diastasis at the examination and confirms it by ultrasound if in doubt.

Dortmund keeps more green space than its industrial reputation suggests. In the south of the city, the Rombergpark, a 65-hectare botanical garden first laid out in 1822 as a private landscape park and rebuilt after war damage into an arboretum of some 4,500 plant species, is one of the largest botanical gardens in the world. Flat, paved paths through grounds of that size are exactly the kind of setting a surgeon has in mind when recommending short, gentle walks from the first days after a tummy tuck, long before heavier activity returns: level ground, shade and nothing to carry, which still rules out pushing a buggy or carrying shopping bags for the first two to three weeks.

Dortmund's seasons and the weeks in an abdominal binder

The city's climate table shows mild, wet winters and warm summers: day-time highs around 6.8°C in January and close to 25°C from June to August, humidity of about 85 percent in December and January, and rain on roughly 21 days in December alone. Spring is the driest part of the year, with April averaging only about 44 mm.

Those numbers matter because the compression binder is worn around the clock for the first 3-4 weeks and then during the day for about another month, 1.5-2 months in total. Under winter coats it is invisible and comfortable; in a warm June it is better to wear a thin cotton layer underneath and plan cooler rooms for sleeping, which is done on the back with the knees bent at first.

The other restrictions run on their own clock. The first 2-3 weeks rule out exertion, heavy lifting and sudden movements, and for at least a month the sauna, steam bath, pool, tanning beds, alcohol and smoking are avoided. Office work usually resumes after 2-3 weeks, most swelling is gone within 30 days, and the scar is fully mature and barely noticeable by about 12 months, so a winter operation means a scar that has faded well before the following summer.

Family plans and the right order of events

A tummy tuck does not rule out a later pregnancy, but the order matters: pregnancy stretches the repaired muscles and the skin again, and part of the result is lost. Surgeons therefore advise waiting at least 12 months after the operation before trying to conceive, and they do not operate while a patient is still breastfeeding.

In practice the operation is best planned once your family is complete. If you are unsure, say so openly at the consultation, because it changes what the surgeon recommends and when.

Weight matters in the same way. Skin that has been removed does not grow back, so that part of the result is permanent, but the abdomen can stretch again with significant weight gain. Anyone still in the middle of losing weight is usually better off reaching a stable weight first and booking the operation afterwards.

Insurance, sick pay and what to ask a surgeon in Westphalia-Lippe

Statutory cover under Section 27 of Social Code Book V is limited to treatment necessary to diagnose, cure or relieve an illness, so a tummy tuck performed to remove excess skin for appearance is self-paid. Under Section 52(2), if a complication arises from a medically non-indicated aesthetic operation, the fund is required to make the patient share the treatment costs in a reasonable amount and to refuse or reclaim sick pay, fully or partly, for that period.

Continued wages from your employer are not promised either. Section 3 of the Entgeltfortzahlungsgesetz pays up to six weeks only for incapacity through illness without the employee's fault, and it does not state that an elective cosmetic operation qualifies. With 1-3 days in hospital and 2-3 weeks before office work, most patients in Dortmund plan the recovery as leave and tell their employer early; the employer must be informed of any incapacity without delay under Section 5.

For the surgeon, look up the name in the public search of the Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe and check that the specialist title reads Facharzt für Plastische und Ästhetische Chirurgie. The DGPRÄC offers a checklist for choosing a surgeon on its patient pages. At the consultation ask whether a classic or a mini tummy tuck suits you, how the muscle repair and the navel repositioning are planned, when the drains and stitches come out, and whether combining the operation with liposuction of the flanks makes sense in your case.

Is winter or summer better in Dortmund for a tummy tuck?

Medically it makes no difference. Winter clothing hides the binder more easily, and a winter operation means the scar has had months to fade before summer, while in warm weather a thin cotton layer under the binder helps.

How long will I be in hospital?

Usually 1-2 days after a classic tummy tuck and one day after a mini tummy tuck, within the 1-3 days of supervision the clinic plans. Drains usually come out after two days and stitches after seven.

Can I have a baby after a tummy tuck?

Yes, but surgeons advise waiting at least 12 months, and the operation is not done while breastfeeding. Ideally it is planned once your family is complete.

Will my health insurance pay for a tummy tuck?

No. Section 27 SGB V covers only medically necessary treatment, and under Section 52(2) the fund must even make you share the cost of treating complications of an aesthetic operation.

Which tests do I need before a tummy tuck, and can I do them in Dortmund?

Yes, they can be done by your own doctors: blood and urine tests, a coagulation panel, biochemistry and infection tests, an ECG, a chest X-ray, a leg-vein ultrasound and a GP's report. The surgeon gives the exact list at the consultation, and because results are generally valid for 10-14 days, they are best done shortly before the date.

Does my employer have to pay me while I recover?

Do not count on it. Section 3 EFZG covers incapacity through illness without fault, and the law does not say that this includes elective cosmetic surgery. Most patients plan the 2-3 weeks before office work as leave.

Can someone from Dortmund ask questions before deciding anything?

A coordinator answers on Telegram and WhatsApp 24/7, takes your questions and photos and books a free consultation with the surgeon, with no obligation.

How do I check a surgeon near Dortmund?

Search the name in the Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe register for registration and specialist title, and use the DGPRÄC checklist and member search as a second check.