I am having a revision for a small "dog ear" on my hip. How long do I have to wait to submerge in water?

20% is a very high percentage.  There are ways to get the risk well under 1%.  In either case, once the wound is there, it will need proper care to keep it clean and allow it to heal.  Expect it to take about 6 weeks.  You will know it is healing as the tissue becomes all...

Yours is not an uncommon scenario, as many patients do not have enough laxity above their belly button to allow excision of the hole where the belly button was during a fully tummy tuck.  The only option besides closing the hole as a small vertical incision would be to bring the entire...

After 6 months after your tummy tuck and muscle repair it should be reasonable for you to restart your workout regimen. I would ask your plastic surgeon via phone if this is okay. Here she will then dictate their preferences regarding this issue.

Thank you for your pictures. There's really nothing that can be done now about your shrinking belly button. It needs to heal and become stable. Once it stable in size then potentially and umbilicoplasty can be done. This is where the bellybutton can be open up a little bit to look more natural....

Most seromas do resolve with repeated needle aspiration, but some do not.  Another option would be to insert a drain like a Seromacath into the seroma for a week or so to allow it to stay flat and hopefully seal up.  If this doesn't work, an irritant called a sclerosant can be injected...