Belly buttons.

The belly button.
It has no use after you are born, yet we are quite obsessed about it.  Are you an innie? Outie? Many of my young patients pierce it.  Many of my moms have one which “winks” after being stretched by babies.  Some pregnant women get a small umbilical hernia, so the innie is now

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scars scars scars. what can you do to treat them?

We plastic surgeons do not do scarless surgery.
We make pretty scars. We hide scars. We try to make small scars.  But anytime you cut through skin you will have a scar. In our training, plastic surgeons learn how to make a good skin closure.  To do this, we have multiple layers of closure under the

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scars scars scars. why do some of your scars look red?

No plastic surgeon can do surgery without a scar.
I know. Shocking the “doctors” on shows like Nip Tuck and every soap opera out there can fix a major accident with not a single scar, but real doctors cannot.  In the real world, anytime you cut through the skin there will be a scar.
Our goal is to

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