Vaginal plastic surgery became the last resort of women who have certain issues regarding their genital area.
Restored self-esteem and renewed passion for sex have been some of the reasons why women opted for invasive vaginal rejuvenation procedures.
These women experience discomfort or even a painful sensation when they wear certain clothes, they perform exercise or they engage in sex. Enlarged, uneven and visually unappealing labias are more likely to happen to mothers and older women.
Sometimes women think that they need to have invasive surgery to make dramatic changes in their private area. This is no longer true.
Traditional vaginal surgery methods
Reducing and reshaping the female genitalia is the goal of those who went through labiaplasty.
The process is outpatient, lasts between one and two hours and is performed under general anesthesia.
Lasers, fine scissors or a scalpel are the instruments that will be used. Sutures are then used on the labia edges after the labia reduction.
The patient may experience some after effects of the surgery—minor discomfort and minor to moderate swelling in their genital area; these effects will last for only two to three days.
After going through vaginal plastic surgery, patients are able to return back to work within a few days (usually 3-4 days).
The patients can shower the next day, can have intercourse three to four weeks after the surgery; they have no problems over bruising and sutures either.
Scars are not expected after healing since the sutures used during labiaplasty are soluble.
More often than not, labiaplasty is done together with other cosmetic procedure like tummy tuck or other vaginal plastic surgery .
Not all vaginal surgery cases involves the act of labial reduction.
There are times when the labia deflates and/or droops, cases like these need augmentation.
Procedures like this are done by getting body fat from other parts of the patient then transplanting it in order to contour the labia; the results is younger looking labia for the patient.
Labial Puff and other non-surgical vaginal rejuvenation methods
Non-surgical labiaplasty is also available for those patients who doesn’t want invasive surgery. These patients may opt for the labial puff procedure.
The doctor will inject the labia majora with a dermal filler to make it look balanced and “puffed up”. This is performed under topical anesthesia, a small gauge needle will inject the dermal filler in the labia majora.
Today, there is a wide selection of dermal fillers available on the market.
The injectable fillers we have in the market are FDA-approved for cosmetic uses, especially in contouring of the face.
There are instances that the FDA allows doctors to prescribe injectable fillers on applications not stated in the FDA-approval specification, so these physicians found the filler’s suitability for use in non-surgical labiaplasty and the labial puff.
There is then an assurance for the patients that the filler used in labial puff is safe and effective.
Whatever a woman’s motive for undergoing the procedure, labiaplasty is a big help in their physical and psychological sense.
The newly-recognized process, the labial puff, a non-surgical labiaplasty method, is here to stay.