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Depending where your tattoo resides some or all of it might be removed with a tummy tuck. It is unlikely that it will be affected if it is truly on your hip at least as I define hip. Your surgeon can easily tell you what to expect.
Some tattoos are totally removed with a tummy tuck, and some will remain behind but without a photo I cannot tell you for sure. Please repost with a photo.
Whether your tattoo would be removed with your tummy tuck depends on where it is and the design of the tummy tuck excisional pattern. If it is on your hip bone, it most likely will be outside of the tummy tuck 'zone' and will remain.
Please post a photo. It is not possible to answer otherwise. All depends on the size, the location, and how much skin excess you have. All the best.
The area of excision will be determined by how much skin is to be removed. Your hip area is usually outside the excision area for a tummy tuck unless it is an extended tummy tuck.
Whether a tattoo needs to be removed during abdominoplasty or not depends on where it is. Yours, "by [your] hip bone" may be OK. It will depend on how far lateral the incision has to go to get it to lay flat and whether the excision near the tattoo can go above or below the tattoo, as the position of the scar can be varied. We usually vary the scar depending on what kind of swim suit you wish to wear, a bikini or French cut, but the same planning can frequently be done to protect a tattoo.
Not to be defensive, but rather to be informative, here is the first thing I want to address. Negligence in this instance is a legal term, and relates to malpractice. What it means is that the surgeon failed to do what a reasonable and prudent surgeon would have done under the same or...
Thanks for the question. It’s hard to imagine how you looked like before and how you look like now and therefore any answer will be futile. I can however notice that after an extended Tummy tuck the expectation to complete for female body building contest is little bit over ambitious and is a r...
Strategies: Careful incision planning. Sometimes it is possible to avoid incision around the navel, albeit with some compromises. All the tension of the closure in the fascia, not the skin Use relatively faster dissolving sutures--Monocryl rather than Maxon in the dermis...
