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Is It Normal for Your Belly Button to Close Up After a Tummy Tuck, and Can It Be Fixed?

asked 1 year ago by CB12 in Orlando, Florida
Latest answer by Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Question viewed 856 times
Tags: abdomen, belly button, female, belly

Had full tummy tuck a year ago and have had belly button issues since. My dr. seems uncertain as to what to do. I was not overweight prior to surgey. When he tried to correct in Dec., he could definitely see a belly button inside. The correction did not work, and my bb closed up again. I tried using a marble and golf tee, but did not work. In the last week my bb blew up like a balloon and then popped. I assume this is because I have a hole that needs to breathe but can't. Any suggestions?

2 answers to Is It Normal for Your Belly Button to Close Up After a Tummy Tuck, and Can It Be Fixed?

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Intermittently healing belly button

Your belly button is a natural scar due to the camping and death of your umbilical cord following delivery. The blood supply is generally poor and therefore wound healing is unpredictable. If it was comlpletely dead (necrotic) the belly button would heal and close up. However, it opens up periodically because there is still some skin present. This skin will form a cyst like structure and intermiitently break open and drain to th surface. The treatment is to open it.
Otto Joseph Placik, MD

Chicago Plastic Surgeon
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Persistent Scar closing of Belly Button after Tummy Tuck

Without an examination much less a photograph it is hard to visualize what you are referring to. "Had full tummy tuck a year ago and have had belly button issues since. ...he tried to correct in Dec., .. The correction did not work, and my bb closed up again. I tried using a marble and golf tee, but did not work. In the last week my bb blew up like a balloon and then popped" It sounds like you had scar contracture around the belly button opening which closed the belly button do more
Peter A. Aldea, MD

Memphis Plastic Surgeon

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