Tummy tuck scar revision surgery
A tummy tuck scar revision surgery would be a good solution for your problem.
The scars could likely be removed and replaced with a lower, horizontal scar.
Your belly button could be reconstructed as well.
The skin above your belly button would essentially be pulled down and replace the irregular, scarred skin that you have.
You do not have a great deal of skin excess. Your surgeon may need to compromise and keep the horizontal scar that is created from a tummy tuck scar revision surgery higher than ideal, but this would still be hidden by most clothing or even a bikini.
A tummy tuck scar revision surgery
Please seek a board certified plastic surgeon for a consult. There are many good surgeons in the lower mainland who can help you. (Shim Ching, MD, Honolulu Plastic Surgeon)
You seem to be a good candidate for lateral tension abdominoplasty tummy tuck procedure. This procedure, typically, the entirety of the skin below your belly button including your scar will be removed.
I believe this will be a better option than just a scar revision for you as scars in this region tend to indent even after a revision. Please visit a board-certified plastic surgeon with expertise in low profile scar lateral tension abdominoplasty. (Kevin Tehrani, MD, FACS, New York Plastic Surgeon)
Abdominoplasty scar revision surgery
This is a difficult situation. I would recommend more consultations with board certified plastic surgeons. In my opinion, it looks like you don’t have enough skin for formal abdominoplasty to remove the scar. (Earl Stephenson, Jr., MD, DDS, Nashville Plastic Surgeon)
Would a tummy tuck be best option for scar revision on my stomach?
As long as you have enough loose skin above your umbilicus, a full tummy tuck will remove all of the scar below the belly button. Even if there is not enough loose skin to remove all of this scar, a significant amount of the vertical scar could still be removed leaving you with an inverted T-scar extending part way up from the mons. (Donald Griffin, MD, Las Vegas Plastic Surgeon)
The tummy tuck scar revision surgery
The photos do not show enough to tell if a full tummy tuck scar revision surgery is a possibility, and even then an exam is required. That is certainly one answer and a good option if the upper abdomen will allow that much stretch.
Otherwise a simple scar revision will flatten out the scars but they will still be located in the same area. (Ronald V. DeMars, MD, Miami Plastic Surgeon)
Tummy tuck surgery for a scar revision
Photo tummy tuck scar revision surgery
I do not think you have enough loose skin on your upper abdomen to pull all of the scarred skin down and remove it through a lower horizontal incision.
I do think a vertical excision and removal of excess skin is a good option, but that leave a vertical and not a horizontal scar.
The surface would be smoother and the undulations would be improved, but it is not the usual lower abdominal scar you are expecting I am afraid. (Julio Garcia, MD, Portland Plastic Surgeon)
