what's the deal with this designer
vagina thing do you need a labiaplasty
should you get one why do people even
get them I'm Dr Rena Malik urologist and
pelvic surgeon and today I'm going to
talk all about what people are calling
the designer vagina or the surgery known
as labioplasty so I'm making this video
basically because one of my friends
asked me what's the deal with this why
do people get this and you know is this
something that we should be considering
and so labioplasty is essentially
reconstruction or plastic surgery of the
lips of the vagina usually making them
smaller or more aesthetically pleasing
there's been a huge growth in women
getting labiaplasty and this has
actually increased by almost 80 percent
between 2015 and 2019. so why do women
get it very simply some people may just
be dissatisfied with the way their labia
looks other times people are trying to
minimize any physical discomfort they
might feel from their genitalia due to
rubbing or friction in that area which
may cause pain pain or discomfort with
just day-to-day activities and during
sex itself a lot of this comes from what
exactly is normal what should your labia
or your vulva even really look like well
you know there was a point in time at
which during pornography all vulvas look
the same with really small labia that
were not protruding or going out of the
body but in fact we know that labias
look very different person to person and
in fact it's just as likely for women to
have a protruding labia as they do a
small labia that many people see
pictured in pornography or other things
like that however in a survey of women
73 of women who describe their genitalia
as being abnormal had visible labia
minora and one in five women overall
think there's something wrong with their
genitalia either the appearance the
smell the taste it's not uncommon in
fact I talk about how this is very
common in men with things like small
penis anxiety but women also have
anxiety about the appearance of their
genitalia while low self-esteem is a
really important mental health issue
that can contribute to a lot of poor
health outcomes the other issue is that
women who perceive their genitalia as
abnormal are less likely to undergo
cervical cancer screenings and so they
could potentially miss out on screening
for cervical cancers so just like any
other cosmetic surgery if you understand
the risks and benefits and you have
distress or discomfort or stress due to
the appearance of your genitalia then
this is certainly a reasonable option
for you do you need it if you're not
bothered by the way your labia look
absolutely not and as I mentioned
earlier there is a huge variety of
different kinds of vulva appearances and
labia appearances and every one of them
is completely normal so these are most
often performed by plastic surgeons
gynecologists or urologists and it
really depends on the surgeon preference
and what your preference is typically
there's two techniques that are most
often used one is called a wedge
resection essentially a triangular Shea
portion of tissue is removed from the
widest portion of the labia minora
whereas a trim resection is essentially
trimming the entire edge of the labia
and in fact when you look at surveys of
Surgeons they perform these pretty much
equally and it really depends on the
individual preference of the patient as
well as the appearance of the labia
themselves the good news is that most
people do really really well the risks
of this procedure are very low in fact
about seven percent of people need some
sort of further surgical revision and in
less than four percent there's a wound
issue that requires you to have kind of
a longer healing period or go back for a
minor procedure to fix that wound issue
otherwise things like chronic pain
infection pain with sex or bleeding are
really rare in less than one percent of
patients but what I always tell patients
is that it doesn't matter if it happens
to one percent of patients if it happens
to you so if you're going to go ahead
with any surgery whether it's a
labioplasty or a surgery on your arm as
long as you can accept those risks and
understand that there is a small risk of
this happening then you should go ahead
and proceed with surgery
so how much do labiaplasty cost well in
2019 the average surgeon fee for a
labioplasty was a little bit over 2 900
that doesn't include the anesthesia fees
the facility fees of where you're having
the procedure done any of those things
so certainly discuss those at length
with your surgeon and make an informed
decision I hope you guys found this
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