Plastic surgeons zip up the incisions made in a tummy tuck surgery procedure using sutures that are usually absorbable or skin adhesives and tapes or clips. The scars that are left behind from a tummy tuck procedure cannot be avoided.
In some people, tummy tuck scars are initially very dark and only begin to fade after a few months or after a year. Tummy tuck scars are known to worsen within the first three months of the surgery, but they are also known to lighten in effect with time.
Scarring depends a lot on the melanin content of the patient. Dark skinned individuals exhibit a tendency to scar with more intensity than light toned people. Besides melanin content, the type of abdominoplasty procedure that the patient has had also influences the degree of scarring.
For instance, patients who have had a mini tuck have smaller, less visible scars than a complete abdominoplasty procedure which has scars running from one hip to another. Another surgery technique has scars forming around the belly button of the patient.
Mothers who have delivered through a C section however, can hide their scars with a tummy tuck surgery as the scars get incorporated into the incision.
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