Still Have Scabs 6 Weeks Post-op? (photo)

    The scabbing at that area is very common after a breast lift, and the result you have from a limited perspective looks good and healthy.  The plastic surgeon can always give you the best assessment.

Scabbing can still be present after 6 weeks. It's best to leave them alone. Picking them off will only make the resulting scar worse, and reopen your incisions.

This is perfectly normal in the healing process.  Removing the scabs prematurely will give you unwanted scarring.  Your tissues are healing under this scab. 

Leave them alone. They will separate and fall off naturally. If you pick them off you could cause on open wound or worse scarring. Good luck and be well.

These are not uncommon, and typically are the result of a suture underneath, which by this time can be removed by your surgeon--they will otherwise take weeks to dissolve. 

Nothing is worrisome here. 

Best wishes. 

Not unreasonalble to still have scabs six weeks post-op.  You might have some suture material beneath these areas that is preventing the skin from completely healing over them.  If the suture material is absorbable, your body should heal as the suture material breaks down.  Your PS can look at determine if there is suture material that needs to be removed to allow for complete healing.

Some crusting or scabbing is not unreasonable at 6 weeks. It is jsut taking a bit more time for those areas to heal.  I was always told that small scabs are "nature's glue"  leave them alone and let them peel off  naturally. Follow closely with your sugeon.

You have very slow healing in these areas. Seek more in person office visits for directed wound care. I might use RED light laser therapy to increase wound re epithilalization. 

Congratulations on having undergone the breast augmentation/mastopexy procedure; from the partial view photograph,  it appears that you are on your way to a very nice result.

 I ask that my patients leave “scabs” alone;  they are serving as a “biological  Band-Aid” while the underlying tissues are healing.

 I would also suggest that you continue to exercise patience and continued to follow up with your plastic surgeon.

 Best wishes.

Hello, and thank you for your question.  I understand your frustrations but you are healing well.  Sometimes scabs stay long term because there is still tissue healing below the scabs.  This my be because the tissue in this area had a little less blood flow than the surrounding areas.  I do not see any infection in the pictures.  When the tissue is finished healing, the scab will fall off naturally.  Follow up with your PS if you still have concerns.  I would recommend avoiding picking the scabs or trying to get them off prematurely.

Best Wishes!

Pablo Prichard