Does rib remodeling make your waist smaller? #plasticsurgery #smallwaist #doctorexplains #ribs

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Can changing your ribs actually make your waist smaller? What we do with rib remodeling is we reshape and we bend inward the bottom three ribs in the back. These are called the floating ribs and they don't actually hang out in the area where your lungs are. The lungs are up higher. So, these hang out way lower.

[00:00:13]They're so small and flimsy that they don't really even protect much, right?

[00:00:16]So, people always worry about what about the protection to my organs? What about my breathing? Well, here's the thing.

[00:00:20]When people are born with narrower ribs and a narrower waist, they still have the same level of protection as someone who's got wider ones. All we do in surgery is we make little cuts in the ribs, we bend them inward, and then we wear a corset for 3 months and they stay in that new position. So, you still have the same ribs, nothing's removed, you still have the same protection, everything was moved but not removed, and they don't mess with the lungs cuz the lungs are much higher. So, yes, they are going to make your waist smaller anywhere from 2 [music] to 5 in some people and it doesn't mess with your breathing, it doesn't mess it with your functionality and protection.