When Can I Get a Tattoo After my Tummy Tuck Surgery? It Will Be on my Arm, Not on the Scar.

Published mortality rates associated with tummy tuck range from 0.02% to 0.16%. These include all causes of death for one month after surgery, with the most common one being pulmonary embolism (blood clot from legs to lungs). To put this in perspective, the death rate for elective C-section...

Combining other procedures, like a hysterectomy or bladder suspension, can be done safely with a tummy tuck.  Just make sure that you are cleared medically beforehand and I would recommend a hospital setting for both surgeries as you may have a longer procedure requiring an overnight...

It's hard to tell without examining you, but if you have significant looseness of you abdomen after a tummy tuck you may have to be re-tightened from top to bottom.  This does involve a full tummy tuck, but in order to get a much flatter belly this is sometimes required.

I'm sorry to hear that you're in this situation and do not have easy access to your plastic surgeon. Your issue could be as simple as a fluid collection, or more complex such as a localized infection or a suture that is draining. If you can't see or communicate with the surgeon that did your...

Hi Waitedenough, Thank for your question regarding post-operative itching after an abdominoplasty. This is not uncommon. Your itching may be due to several things. Before you read my suggestions, you should contact your plastic surgery to notify them of your itching.  Your plastic surgeon may ...

Even if you had some old blood, you do not have an actively-enlarging hematoma. This is either old blood and serum, or seroma, both of which require the same treatment--aspiration one or more times, compression, and if not resolved in this fashion, replacement of drain, sclerodesis, and (rarely)...