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Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: Cody Jensen on October 06, 2010, 12:46:28 PM

Title: Another question about the FtM surgery?
Post by: Cody Jensen on October 06, 2010, 12:46:28 PM
I was just curious how bad the scars are for the top surgery and how long they take to heal completely. Is it still very noticable after a while?

EDIT: Also, is it easy to find a surgeon or hard? (For top surgery).
Title: Re: Another question about the FtM surgery?
Post by: Nero on October 06, 2010, 01:22:34 PM
Mine have faded pretty good. I suppose there will always be some tell tale signs if one really looks.
Title: Re: Another question about the FtM surgery?
Post by: Fencesitter on October 06, 2010, 01:41:17 PM
It's worse if you tend to have Keloids. But you can always get a cool tattoo over, or wait until you get enough chest hair.
Title: Re: Another question about the FtM surgery?
Post by: Nygeel on October 06, 2010, 07:03:20 PM
It depends. Some people get bad scarring because they have skin that scars easily. Some people get bad scars because they had infection or made some mistakes taking care of their chest. There's no way to say you'll have no scarring/little scarring. There are 2 general surgeries: peri, and double incision. Peri tends to have less scarring since the doctor just cuts around the nipple and stitches it up around the nipple. Double incision cuts around the underside of where your pecs are.

Transbucket has pictures of different surgeries by different doctors so you can get an idea as to how people turn out post op.