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Dear Mishel, Thanks for submitting your picture. Based on your front size picture only, you have a very nice result. As far as your belly button, most likely and most commonly, what you have noticed is a dry blood clot , that can be easily removed by your plastic surgeon on your next office visit. Once that dry blood clot is removed, you will end up with beautiful belly button. Enjoy your beautiful body(be careful for the next 6 weeks, to avoid strained activity), Dr Widder
Bellybuttons are interesting things. Sometimes, even when the bellybutton skin doesn't survive it ends up healing and contracting so it ends up looking like a bellybutton anyway. Early on, though, it might actually just be a lot of scab sitting in there. If so, your surgeon might end up cleaning it out which would allow you to see a nice navel underneath.
You seem to have a great early result. The scab should fall off and you will be pleased. Months not weeks are needed to asses belly button results. Take heart, and follow your surgeon's instructions. Especially if she, or he, was board certified in plastic surgery...as I suspect from your photo.
To answer your question, if an insurance-covered procedure (in your case hernia repair) is performed in a hospital at the same time as a cosmetic procedure (in your case abdominoplasty), the hospital nurses will keep track of how much time is spent on the hernia repair (which is a short...
Thank you for your question regarding your postop tummy tuck garment. If the skin is being irritated you may need to let the skin settle. It is best that the compression garment is tight and your PS may advise giving you some skin care or a dressing to stop the compression garment rubbing. I...
It is important to undergo a physical exam but a simple test is to do a sit up. If there is no change it is probably intraabdominal fat. If the central area above the belly button becomes more prominent it is probably a diastasis. Regards.