Labiaplasty is a surgical procedure that we actually perform for those patients who are
interested to reduce the volume or to correct the asymmetrical shape of their labia minora
which is the genital area of their body.
Labiaplasty is a procedure actually performed on the patients because many of these patients
are really annoyed from the shape or from the size of this intimate area.
Actually, they are bothered for functional reasons or even for aesthetic or appearance reasons.
These patients are really willing to consider reducing this extra tissue from their body
in order to enhance both function and appearance of this intimate area of their body.
Labiaplasty is a surgical procedure. When we’re talking about surgical procedure,
we are talking about a real surgery that the surgeon needs to conduct and perform in a
proper surgical setup. It’s not a simple procedure that we perform in the office.
It needs to be done in a surgical room under anaesthesia with the whole set up of sterilization
and proper nursing. When we do labiaplasty, we, as surgeons,
we use different types of tools and surgical instruments to perform. The most popular one
and conventional type of tools are knife and scissors. But in our days, as you can understand,
the technology has been improved and instead of using scissors and knives, we now use much
more advanced tools such as laser and radiofrequency devices. With these devices, we perform this
procedure much, much faster, much, much safer and with much, much better aesthetic and functional
results for the patients.
The procedure always depends on the case. How long does a procedure take usually depends
on the case. Each patient is different and the needs that this procedure might take from
the surgeon may differ from patient to patient. In average time, if we’re talking about
the pure surgical time of the procedure, it’s almost 45 minutes to one hour.
If you also put in the middle the preparation of the patient, the marking of the patient, and the recovery
of the patient, it usually takes around one hour and a half.
Labiaplasty itself is a procedure that we conduct in a day office spaces so we don’t
ask the patient to stay overnight. When the patient is interested to do labiaplasty, the full
time needed to be spent in the hospital is around four to five hours coming, preparing,
doing the procedure, recovering, and going back home.
The healing process is also really depending on the patient’s structure and quality of
her tissues. In average time, the healing process will take something between three
to four weeks, but there are patients who will take a bit longer, so that will go to
five weeks, and of course there are patients who will heal much faster, so it will take
two to three weeks. With the current new technologies, with the
laser, with the radiofrequency, as I said before, but also performing newest technology
that we call PRP, we can speed this healing process and make it much, much shorter compared
to the old, traditional way of labiaplasty.