Tummy Tuck: Prices, Photos, Reviews, Info, Q&A

A tummy tuck removes excess skin from your stomach and doing this requires a scar. The exact location of the scar is something that you and your surgeon should discuss in detail – once you have the scar, you can’t change your mind and move it! This is something worth considering, as most of the time tummy tuck scar location is dictated by clothing preference.

If you liked French-cut one-piece bathing suits, the scar would be designed like a sharp smile to stay off your hip. However, this is not the current fashion. Now, low-cut two-piece bathing suits are in, as well as the pants. So you would want a very low, almost horizontal scar. Everything is a compromise, but if you take the time to consider all of your clothing preferences, you can decide which scar will be best for you. Have a look at the video on my website, and pay attention to the scar positions in relation to the photo panties – you should be able to hide it with a baiting suit.

Best tummy tuck scars photo

Unfortunately, a tummy tuck procedure is a trade off. You get a flatter, less flabby belly with the necessary evil of having scars on your abdomen. Best tummy tuck scars are placed low enough to be hidden beneath the underwear or bathing suit line. There is also a circular scar around your belly button which can be hidden inside. Most women find these scars to be an acceptable trade off for the excellent improvement in the contour of their stomach area.

I mark my patients standing just prior to surgery and go over where all of the final best tummy tuck scars will be. These can be adjusted based on the type of bathing suit or bikini that you like to wear. Final scar appearance depends on two factors. The first is genetic and some people tend to scar better than others. The other is surgical technique. So find a surgeon who performs many of these procedures with excellent surgical technique.

Best tummy tuck scars image

All tummy tucks have a scar, which is the only way to remove the excess skin. The location of the scar varies with how much excess skin you have and each person’s anatomy.

A few years ago, high cut bikinis were the rage and women would bring bathing suits into my office, and ask that the scar be hidden within that bathing suit. We were successful, but many of those same patiens are now coming in saying that low-rise jeans that are now popular don’t hide the same scar.

Best tummy tuck scars pictures

The lesson is that fashion comes and goes, but best tummy tuck scars stay where we put them. It is a rare person who regrets the scar of a tummy tuck since the change in shape and contour is so pleasing to most women.

Have a careful discussion with your surgeon and, if necessary, have him/her draw the actual proposed incision on your body ahead of time. You can then go home and try on bathing suits, underwear, pants, etc.

It is important when planning you Tummy Tuck to place the incisions in locations that are covered when you wear your clothes. It is helpful to bring some examples of these clothes to your plastic surgeon so that they may be able to modify the incision to better fit your needs.

Image of best tummy tuck scars

The location of the scar is critical to obtaining satisfying results from a tummy tuck. I design the scar locations based on how a patient prefers to wear a bikini. Almost always I am able to conceal almost all of the scar under a bikini or underwear.

It is important to have the conversation with your plastic surgeon regarding the planned location of your scar.

In a complete abdominoplasty there are two scars. One goes around the repaired umbilicus and the other along the length of the lower abdomen. In either location it takes many months for the start to fade but they never disappear.

Plastic surgeons should make every effort to leave the low lying transverse abdominoplasty scar which would be covered by underwear and most bikinis.

Best tummy tuck scars picture

But in some instances the laxity is not sufficient or the deformity to excessive to ideally place or limit the scar. This is an important matter that should be discussed beforehand with your plastic surgeon.

Best tummy tuck scars are usually hidden below your underwear line. Scars can migrate upwards from the tight pull down of the abdominal skin. Most surgeons will secure the scar position with sutures to the abdominal wall so that the scar will remain low and fit under a standard bikini bottom. Most women are bikini ready within 2-3 months after surgery.

The determining factors as to where your scar will be and whether or not you can hide it in a bikini after a tummy tuck are: How much extra skin do you have between your ribs and your belly button and how high is your belly button? The more extra skin you have above your belly button and the lower your belly button is on your abdomen, the lower your scar should be. Conversely, the less.

There will be a visible scar along the lower abdomen and belly button after an abdominoplasty. The goal of the plastic surgeon is to create a scar that is as least conspicuous as possible. Suture techniques as well as careful scar management post-operatively yield very acceptable scars in most of my patients. My patients tell me that they would trade the improvement in the contour of their abdomen and the ability to wear clothing without pantygirdles for a thin pale scar anyday!