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Are staples always used for tummy tuck surgery?

Are staples always used for tummy tucks or EE there other methods also?

Is using staples to close a tummy tuck a good/normal practice?

Hi there, please may i have some advice. I have had a consultation with my surgeon of choice but he has told me that he uses staples to

What kind of material/sutures etc is used to close a TT surgery?

I'm allergic to a lot metals and I'm wondering how the incisions for a full TT are closed? Even the staples the surgeon used for my small

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What can I do about excessive spitting staples not breaking through the skin? (photo)

I had a tummy tuck and thigh lifts. The thigh incisions are spitting staples. It looks like a zipper. I have removed at least 6 but can see

Absorbable staple sticking out causing hole on suture line. TT staple sticking out. Can it still dissolve exposed? (Photo)

Can this resolve on it's own or will I have to get it removed? I seen my doctor yesterday and he clipped a small one that was sticking

Will my open wound heal with staples loose inside of my incision? 1 week post-op TT. (photo)

I'm 7 wpo from a tt with mr. I've a wound in the incision under my belly button that is about 1/2 dia and I can stick my pinky all the way

Am I doing something wrong? Incisions of tummy tuck have opened? Will this heal normal? (Photo)

I just had a tummy tuck 18 days ago and 1 week ago at my PS took the staples out and saw that part of my incisions have opened up. He did

Body not healing after Tummy Tuck? Incision site keeps splitting and rejecting dissolvable staples, how do I proceed? (photos)

It was almost all the way healed. Then started slowly opening up and the little white dissolvable stables kept popping out. I am on week 8

Overlapping scar and open on left side (Photo)

I had full TT with umbilical and ventral hernia repair and muscle tightening 16 days ago, the staples have been removed. I noticed that the

Dissolvable Staples in Tummy Tuck Incision

I am 4 weeks post-op from a mommy makeover. my doc used dissolvable staples under the skin but now they are painful and they are creating