Getting a Tattoo After Surgery?

Thank you for your question. If the tattoo is in a place that is not near the surgery site, a tattoo could be considered safe. However, we recommend getting the surgery first and waiting until your board certified plastic surgeon releases you for additional procedures. It is important to allow for full healing after your surgery before getting a tattoo, because you do not want to put added stress on your immune system while healing from your surgery. Getting a tattoo can also introduce an additional avenue for infection, further complicating your surgery results. We recommend getting your surgery, fully healing, and then getting your tattoo for the best results from both procedures.

Probably OK but I would check with your surgeon. What if you get an infection from your tattoo? There may be complicating factors and I would check with your surgeon first. 

I would rearrange the tattoo appointment for a further date as would not risk any other procedure during the healing of a major surgery. Tattoo can be important but wouldn't compromise wound healing for the surgery with it. There is a chance tattoo can be uneventful and without any complications but not worth taking risks. Please speak to your Consultant to discuss this and mention your planned operation to your tattoo clinic for their advice.

Thanks for your inquiry, though I do not anticipate a problem, I would delay your tattoo a few more weeks to prevent any risk of infection. 

I don't think there would be any problem with getting a tattoo on your wrist after your surgery. If you are especially swollen in that area, I would hold off in that situation.

Getting a tatoo before or after surgery on your wrist will not affect surgery. One should never get a tatoo near an incision or on an undermined skin flap until 3 months have passed, however.

Thank you for your question.
First of all, there is no any medical obstacle or restriction for having a tattoo after a surgery. But it's mostly not recommended by surgeons because having a tattoo after a surgery contains some possibilities which can negatively affect your recovery process anyway.  
There can be an unexpected influence on your scars like an infection or the location of the tattoo may not be proper for having it. 
In my practice, as a surgery requiring a meticulous recovery process, I recommend to my patients to have a tattoo after completing the recovery process fully. 

When recovering from a major cometic surgery such as a mommy makeover, it is probably not an ideal time to have a tattoo done. The more serious concern would be introducing potential infection that may interfere with your healing but also it may just be uncomfortable for your to sit in one position for long enough to have the tattoo done just 10 days after your procedure. Most likely is it is easier to reschedule a tattoo appointment than a surgical procedure :-)

A tattoo on your wrist, remote from your surgical site, should not present any issue to the recovery from your mommy makeover, even when performed only 10 days after surgery.  You may still have some post-op discomfort at that point, but again, this should not create a problem.

Most healing occurs in the first six weeks following surgery.  The incision sites then continue to fade for the next six months to two years.  The maturing scar might influence the tattoo in these earlier stages of healing.  It seems prudent to wait at least three months following surgery for a tattoo on the scar, but more time would probably be better.