2 Belly Buttons. How is This Fixed?

In some cases, the old belly button hole  is closed above the incision line to make your procedure safer for you. Discuss this matter furher with your surgeon.

Agree with Dr. Hughes. This is a judgment call on the part of your surgeon. I sometimes do this as well. In some cases where there is not enough laxity of skin between the rib cage and the umbilicus (belly button), the hole in the abdominal wall skin created when cutting around the belly button cannot be advanced below the level of resection. In order to keep the waist crease scar low (which is what you want), you need to close this hole.

This may seem confusing, but below is a web link to a page with great diagrams illustrating this. I encourage you to look at them.

    If you have a small vertical scar at the center of your tummy tuck scar, then this is the old belly button scar.  This was left in an effort to keep the rest of the tummy tuck scar low.  If this had been removed, the entire horizontal scar would have been moved up the length of the vertical scar.  Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA