Natural Looking Belly Button After Tummy Tuck?

It is difficult to tell. The belly button will definitely change as it heals, but in my experience, the belly button tends to get a little smaller as time goes on (scar tissue). So if your belly button is very narrow right now, it may get narrower. One little "trick" that helps to keep the belly button from getting too small as it heals, is to keep a marble in it (I know it sounds crazy, but it keeps it "splinted" open). Obviously, do not do this without checking with... more

Every surgeon does their belly button in a particular way. Right now you do have some swelling and it will settle over time and may open up. It will take about 4 months time before the swelling resolves. At that point you can then re-evaluate and see how your belly button looks like. At that point if you so desire you can get a revision done to make it look better, this is not impossible but is tricky and difficult.

The sheer fact that there are AT LEAST 10 ways (last time I counted) to re-create a belly button (ie UMBILICOPLASTY) should tell you that no one technique is the undisputed winner. Plastic surgeons as a whole share several qualities; We are all obesessive, perfectionists who constantly tinker with out techniques in search for the ever elusive perfect surgical outcome. I share some of the opinions espoused so far. It is too soon to tell how the belly button will turn out - so I would not... more

At this point in time, there are alot of forces working on the belly button that make it difficult to predict exacxtly how your belly button will eventually look. There are scar contraction forces that tend to make it smaller and wound tension forces that tend to make it larger. In my own practice, I prefer to make them smaller because they have a tendency to get larger in many instances. If they do not, I occasionally have to do a revision to make it larger and rarely to make it smaller.... more