Will I Always Feel the Margins of Surgical Mesh Placed During Abdominoplasty/ventral Hernia Repair?

Thank you for your question. With time and incorporation the palpability of your mesh should improve.  Thin patients are at risk for always feeling it to some extent if the mesh is made of permanent material.  Things should get better with time. best wishes on your recovery.

Things should b]get better over time but because you are thin you may always feel the mesh directly below your skin.

In order to enhance the strengh of the abdominal muscles and to repair diastasis recti/ventral hernia, during abdominoplasty, sometimes a mesh is sutured to the abdominal muscles. If you have minimal subcutaneous fat, in the immediate post operative period, you may feel the edges of the mesh initially and if the mesh is absorable they gradually go away.   If it was not absorbale the solution is to trim them surgically or consider do fat grafting aroud the palpable edges.

There are several factors that could contribute to the palpability of your surgical mesh.  How much soft tissue do you have to cover the edges and what type of mesh was used.  If it was an absorbable mesh then it will get better with time.  If it is a non-absorbable mesh it is possible that as soft tissue grows around the material it will be less palpable.  Your plastic surgeon is in the best position to answer this question. 

Frankly, this is not a "problem” that I have encountered clinically. It may very well be a situation where only time will tell whether, as scar tissue forms around the mesh,  the mesh will become less palpable.

Sorry,  I cannot provide you with more precise/meaningful information.

Best wishes.