I had a drainless tummy tuck with muscle repair and a little bit of liposuction on the sides in July 2021. The doctor who performed the procedure has great bead side manner and excellent reviews - I did my research before doing it. However, so am not happy with my results. It seems that there was laxity in the skin of my pubis area, so the end results was an abnormally large pubic area (pulled up and stretched) and a very high jagged scar too close to my belly button. Is this repairable??
Answer: Scar laser treatment paired with melarase creams can help minimize the appearance of the scar Abdominoplasty scars can be quite complex, ranging from the simple hypertrophic scar to a multiplane inflamed keloid. Pigmentation, discoloration, chronic inflammation, scar visibility can all occur in the short term. We begin each treatment with combination therapy using Yellow broadband BBL, Vbeam, fractional erbium, intralesional IIT, and scar modulation. Start with a combination of Plato's Scar Serum massaged twice daily after one week of epithelialization followed by Luminase/Exfolase. Scar consultation and revision may be recommended.
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Answer: Scar laser treatment paired with melarase creams can help minimize the appearance of the scar Abdominoplasty scars can be quite complex, ranging from the simple hypertrophic scar to a multiplane inflamed keloid. Pigmentation, discoloration, chronic inflammation, scar visibility can all occur in the short term. We begin each treatment with combination therapy using Yellow broadband BBL, Vbeam, fractional erbium, intralesional IIT, and scar modulation. Start with a combination of Plato's Scar Serum massaged twice daily after one week of epithelialization followed by Luminase/Exfolase. Scar consultation and revision may be recommended.
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March 21, 2022
Answer: Unfixably Too High Your scar can never be lowered and is way too high. The reason is clear as day: your surgeon, doing what he has dutifully been trained to do, placed your scar that high so that the hole in the abdominal skin where it was attached to your belly button would be excised with skin excess. Given the rule that the hole needs to come out, the alternatives to what you got would have been a mini tuck, a floating belly button tuck, or no surgery, all of which are insufficient or weird looking. Instead, surgeons should not fear leaving the hole behind and closing it vertically leaving an inconspicuous vertical scar in the lower abdomen, and making the long incision very very low, giving you an added benefit of a small pubic triangle. Although your only recourse is careful scar revision using post-operative mechanical tape support, you can provide your surgeon a learning opportunity so that he may break free of this backward thinking and avoid doing this to other people. To be very clear, your surgeon did not do anything considered below the standard of care, in fact, he did what too many other surgeons would have done.
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March 21, 2022
Answer: Unfixably Too High Your scar can never be lowered and is way too high. The reason is clear as day: your surgeon, doing what he has dutifully been trained to do, placed your scar that high so that the hole in the abdominal skin where it was attached to your belly button would be excised with skin excess. Given the rule that the hole needs to come out, the alternatives to what you got would have been a mini tuck, a floating belly button tuck, or no surgery, all of which are insufficient or weird looking. Instead, surgeons should not fear leaving the hole behind and closing it vertically leaving an inconspicuous vertical scar in the lower abdomen, and making the long incision very very low, giving you an added benefit of a small pubic triangle. Although your only recourse is careful scar revision using post-operative mechanical tape support, you can provide your surgeon a learning opportunity so that he may break free of this backward thinking and avoid doing this to other people. To be very clear, your surgeon did not do anything considered below the standard of care, in fact, he did what too many other surgeons would have done.
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March 23, 2022
Answer: Tummy tuck Dear Fierce580021,
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March 23, 2022
Answer: Tummy tuck Dear Fierce580021,
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March 21, 2022
Answer: Tummy tuck revision Dear New Jerseyan,
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March 21, 2022
Answer: Tummy tuck revision Dear New Jerseyan,
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March 21, 2022
Answer: Tummy tuck Tummy tuck scars often tend to tide high and pull the pubic area up while stretching it out. Your scar can probably be lowered about an inch depending on how loose the skin is. You may have to wait about a year to let the skin stretch
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March 21, 2022
Answer: Tummy tuck Tummy tuck scars often tend to tide high and pull the pubic area up while stretching it out. Your scar can probably be lowered about an inch depending on how loose the skin is. You may have to wait about a year to let the skin stretch
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