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What Can I Do About This Ugly Scar? This is TERRIBLE!!!!!!
asked 10 months ago by jennifer1055
Latest answer by Kenneth Dembny, II, MD
Question viewed 179 times
Tags: 5 years post-op, options, stapling
I did two years of research before having abdominoplasty. I asked all the right questions, and 5 years later look at this scar!!!! My surgeon assured me he used stitches not staples, and told me that I would have to wait until around two years for scar to fade. Not only do i have this wide scar from him using staples, i have a scar from EACH staple he used. Its not fair that I would have to pay 3500 for a scar revision. Should he correct this horror that he calles a tummy tuck!
2 answers to What Can I Do About This Ugly Scar? This is TERRIBLE!!!!!!
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Unsatisfactory Scarring Following Tummy Tuck
Small scars can result at the site where a staple end pokes the skin, or where an external suture travels through the skin. For this reason, a buried suture is used for the final layer of the skin closure to minimize scarring.
Despite our best efforts, scar widening can occur following a tummy tuck, even when buried skin sutures are used. So I do not think that you can definitively say that your widened scar is the result of a skin closure with staples. There is no doubt,...
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Unacceptable scar after a tummy tuck
Most plastic surgeons don't use skin staples for this reason. If it were my patient, I would revise this under local for no charge so you have a good result and refer other patients.
Richard Dale Reynolds, MD
El Paso Plastic Surgeon
El Paso Plastic Surgeon