AboutAlan M. Engler, MD, FACS Expertise Dr. Engler has answered over 2700 plastic surgery questions for Allexperts. His expertise is in cosmetic plastic surgery including breast surgery (breast enlargement with implants, breast reduction, breast lifts), liposuction, eyelid surgery, tummy tucks, facelifts etc.
Dr. Engler has been listed as one New York`s Top Doctors, and as "One of the World's Most Famous Aesthetic Surgeons" (Aesthetic Surgery, TASCHEN Books, Angelika Taschen, Editor). He is the author of 4 books, including "BodySculpture" (a best-selling plastic surgery book on breast surgery, liposuction and tummy tucks), "EyeScapes" (Plastic Surgery of the Eyelids), "Restylane," and "The Slim Book of Liposuction."
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Experience Dr. Alan Engler is a board-certified plastic surgeon in New York and the author of BodySculpture - Plastic Surgery of the Body for Men and Women (ISBN 0966382749) one of the top-selling plastic surgery books on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, etc.
Education/Credentials Dr. Engler graduated from Yale University (undergraduate) and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University (medical school). He did his residency training in General Surgery and, after that, Plastic Surgery, at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. He is on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
Question Hello, I underwent liposuction surgery on my stomach, but the surgeon did
not leave a drain for the fluids to come out, two days after the procedure I
got lymphatic drainage massages and the inflammation and the accumulated
liquids and inflammation decreased dramatically for for the week I got the
lymphatic drainage. After that week I started getting big lumps of scar tissue,
and it has been almost two months after the surgery, I am currently
massaging myself everyday, and the scar tissue has broken down. I am
wearing a compression suit with a foam inside and when I take it out my
stomach which looks normal starts hardening after a while. Would the scar
tissue go down with time? What can I do?
Answer from Dr. Alan Engler
www.bodysculpture.com
Hi Angie,
It can take up to six months (and sometimes even longer) to see the final results from a liposuction, and that includes the remodeling of scar tissue. So at this point, I would just continue the daily massage and, hopefully, it will remodel and settle down on its own.
Otherwise, I don't think there's much you can do but, fortunately, you may not even need to,
