Although nausea can occur with any post operative patient the anesthesia these days is great as far as prophylactically preventing nausea with medication. That being said some patients do still experience nausea, so you might not want to risk it. Talk to your doctor about alternatives for the...
The suture material for the muscle repair usually is non absorbable, so the suture can hold the tissues long enough while the scar tissue gets strong to hold the muscle in place. In some patients that have had a lot of stretching in the abdominal wall such like a twin pregnancy, the muscles on...
If you do hundreds of belly buttons and tummy tucks a year, you run into this issue due to previous hernia repair and umbilical devascularization. Neoumbilicoplasty can be performed in a variety of ways. For a full tummy tuck, the umbilicus must remain attached to the abdominal wall to ma...