What is the best thing for me to put on my Tummy Tuck scar?

Thank you for your question!!  At our office in Foster City, CA we have two remedies that seems to work well.  Embrace is a newer product developed by a Stanford Plastic Surgeon.  It is an occlusive dressing that assists to relieve tension on the tummy tuck closer.  This is probably the best product on the market, yet pricey.  The other product we carry is BioCorneum which is a silicone liquid that you apply twice daily to your incisions.  This has a SPF in the product to assist with preventing increased protection from the sun, thus decreasing pigmentation.  Hope this helps!!

I have not been convinced that any of the scar creams or ointments really help improve the final result of scars. I have done some very small studies on my patients that have been willing to use scar creams on part of their scars and just paper tape on the other parts and I do not see much difference in the end result after about 8-10 months. So I just have my patients apply paper tape to the scars and change them once a week for about 6 weeks. It is the cheapest and seems to be an equally effective treatment as anything else.  

Following surgery, there are many companies that manufacture creams and ointments that promise to minimize or eliminate scars.  However, there are only a few that have any scientific or clinical evidence demonstrating improvement.  Don't pay attention to heavily advertised creams with impressive "before and after" pictures.  Clinicians realize that scars will most often improve with time even when no treatment is used.  In short, my treatment regimen includes maintaining steri strips over the wound for 3-5 weeks following abdominoplasty.  When steri strips are removed, we begin using silicone strips.  These are made by Scar Away, Curad, and a number of other manufacturers.  I recommend wearing them at night for 12 weeks.  Real clinical studies have actually demonstrated improvement in scars with this regimen.  And silicone strips have been used in hospitals for decades in the treatment of burn scars.  I hope this helps!