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How Long Before Breast Lift and Tummy Tuck Stitches Dissolve?
This depends on the type of material used in your surgery. Your muscle plication may have been performed with sutures that don't dissolve or dissolve very slowly while sutures used in a subdermal or subcuticular closure may dissolve in one to two months. Ask your surgeon what they used and they should be able to give you an accurate time frame.
Clinical Context
Surgeons choose suture material based on how much tension a tissue layer will bear and for how long. Muscle repairs in a tummy tuck face constant strain from breathing and movement, so slow-dissolving or permanent sutures are often used there. Skin and under-the-skin (subcuticular) closures carry far less tension once healing begins, so faster-absorbing sutures are typically used, which also lowers the chance of visible suture marks. Your surgeon can tell you exactly which materials were used in your case.
