One of the concerns about any kind of surgery for our patients of color is that scar formation
or keloid formation -- some people are more prone to keloid and there's a certain percentage
of the population that forms heavy scarring or keloid
which prevents them from having a regular bunionectomy.
Now the scarless bunionectomy helps to solve that condition.
The scarless bunionectomy via www.ScarlessBunion.com
I will show you the procedure.
This next upcoming case I'm about to show you is one of our patients,
she's done very well and you can see her scar which is very minimal
it's the typical scarless bunion incision
and this will show you the post-operative view of one foot,
she's preparing to get the other foot done
This shows the same right foot pre-op
post-op now we're going to swing onto the patient look at it clinically in case you forgot
this is the right foot after the Lam Modified Bunionectomy, that's what it looks like
you just saw her x-rays
okay there's the scarring and here's the scarring on the other side, she's looking really good
again this is the left foot that we're going to be doing in January
okay we'll get it done
Here's a young lady here we have a bunion on the left foot, the right foot was done
via the minimally invasive Lam method
now you see her scars right here and right here and that's about it
How was your experience with the surgery?
"It was good, it healed quickly."
This is done in September we are at the end of November right now
So you've healed up very well. "Mhmm." So it's been two months since your surgery.
So she's already thinking about the left foot
and we're gonna take an x-ray today and go from there
the right foot was actually the worst of the two so what you see here on the left
is actually not bad compared to the right one
we chose to do this because darker skinned people tend to get keloids and you know and you get
darker scars, but that's your scar, that's your scar, that's about it
that's only gonna get better, it's only been two months
and looking from the top, there's no scar on the top on the traditional bunionectomy
we're talking about the Scarless Lam Modified Bunionectomy right here versus
the traditional which is a scar on top
now we're going to be like this, range of motion at two months is perfect, no stiffness
"No." Are you happy you had it done? "I am."
We are ready for the other one, are you ready?
"I think so". [laughs] You think so, let's get it done.
Hey guys, another episode of talking about the Lam Peabody Bunionectomy
minimally invasive / scarless bunionectomy
getting tremendous results with this and I wouldn't do my bunionectomy any other way
besides this for true deformity
we're talking about from moderate to severe deformity, it's been doing great
starting to catch on now with people in my profession and starting to get noticed
results have been excellent and two patients came in today, they're extremely happy
one had both feet done, the other one had one done and she's ecstatic
because you can't see the scar and she's walking without pain
so take a look at the following and see what you think
Well this is a scarless bunionectomy, I did it on both both feet
you see it on both sides, this one was the scar for the tailor's bunion, this side
the scar for the regular bunion
this one is fresh, relatively new
this is the second side, again range of motion is perfect, are you happy with the procedure?
"Oh yes, definitely."
If you had to do it again, would you? "Oh, for sure" [laughs]
Okay, what was the greatest myth about bunion surgery before?
"Just probably the pain, you know, the pain."
Is it painful? "No, it's not bad".
Not bad, so it's better than you expected, right? "Oh, absolutely."
Well you had a bad bunion on this side, that's why we did this one first and now it's nice and straight
and we went back and we did this one, beautiful
so you're back in sneakers, I see. "Yes." Good, good, good, are you happy with the procedure overall?
"Yes, definitely." This is the Lam scarless bunionectomy, those are the scars
you can see how this one the scar is all faded
and this one you get a little bit of redness, but that's the incision site with the one suture before
and this is the pin site
it's going to match that foot very soon so you won't see any scars almost
it's almost like you never had bunionectomy done
by looking at your foot right here with the scars
so you healed excellent my, friend. "Right, thank you"
You're welcome.
Okay, just got done with the surgery, took about four minutes
we have the before right here and we have the after right about here
so you can see the correction, this is the bunion before, nice little bump
this is the exact patient right after
now we're going to take a look at the foot itself
Another successful bunionectomy, we have -- this is a bunion before
and this is the patient I did a few months ago and where's your bunion?
Her bunion is missing, her scar -- no more scarring
she just had a little bit of stiffness right here on this joint but we're going to get that moving
but otherwise are you happy with the look of the bunion? "Oh yes"
And the look of the scar? "Mm-hmm, there's really no scar though"
Nine weeks for the Peabody bunionectomy, we see there's this scar, there's your bunion
hardly any swelling, we're talking about nine weeks now
I guess pain for the first three days as you would say? "Yes."
Otherwise recovery was uneventful?
"Yes, very much."
Okay, was it the better than expected or -- ?
"Yeah, it was better than I expected."
Okay, cool. Nice, there you go.
It looks good, range of motion at nine weeks, no stiffness that would normally do with the
scar bunionectomy on top, this is no limitation and range of motion looks really good.