How do I choose a surgeon for a labiaplasty?

I think the most important factor for picking your plastic surgeon is to find someone who has experience with the procedure, but also to find someone who you feel comfortable with. That comfort level should come from the surgeon educating you about the procedure and making you feel comfortable with knowing what you need to know before and after the procedure, and just from having a good feeling about the best Labiaplasty Surgeons in Florida in general. I think one of the best steps to avoiding anxiety about surgery is to be very careful where patients look online for information. There are excellent resources online but there are also a lot of horror stories that represent an individual bad experience or someone who's just trying to be inflammatory. So I think avoiding reading too many of the complications or bad experiences could really be an important factor. In our office personally, we really like to help patients avoid anxiety. So they get a cellphone number for one of our staff members or for me, and they could call us when they have any questions. We do give oral sedation for the procedure. So most of my patients have their prescription for Valium or Percocet the day before. If they need to, they can take a Valium the night before the procedure to help themselves relax. On the day of the procedure, we do have them take a Valium in the office. We have Google TV in all our rooms. We have them pick a movie or a television series on Netflix and they just relax in the room and watch T.V. until we're ready to get started.

Labiaplasty has become one of the more common procedures I perform in the office. I find that most women are not coming in because they want to look better, they're coming in because they have symptoms. Those symptoms could range from discomfort with exercise to just feeling uncomfortable wearing tight clothing, like a bathing suit or yoga pants.

For a labiaplasty procedure, it can be done in the operating room, but we actually do a fair number of our labiaplasties in the office. With oral sedation, patients are able to tolerate getting local anesthetic to the area and then the tissue is trimmed and sutured back into place with dissolvable sutures, so no sutures need to be removed.

Patients will have discomfort for about a week and some mild soreness for about four to six weeks in the area. After labiaplasty, my average patient is pretty swollen and sore for a week or two, so I have patients take at least three or four days off work, and most of them will take about a week off of a more intense job.

Exercise needs to be avoided for about two weeks, and I tell patients to expect that it'll be four to six weeks before they can resume intercourse or tampon use.

Labiaplasty can absolutely be combined with other procedures. I've done it with breast augmentation. I have done it with other external genitalia procedures, like a clitoral hood pexy or a labia majora reduction, and I have done it with internal vaginal tightening, as well.

I also have many patients that come in after child birth wanting to restore vaginal tightness, and it is a pretty straightforward safe surgery, which most patients find they recover from more quickly than they thought they would. And that is done under general anesthesia, by removing the excess lining of the vaginal wall, and tightening the muscles underneath, basically like we do in a tummy tuck. And all of the sutures dissolve, and it takes about four to six weeks of downtime, but many patients find that their experiences are restored to what they had before children.