Life’s milestones majorly impact the function and appearance of the vaginal area. The birth of a child can cause damaged perineum, aging can lead to vaginal prolapse, or stress can cause weak bladder. Women are shy to express these problems, however, with a little nudge from their family and a skilled surgeon, they can enjoy a renewed lifestyle. Vaginoplasty repairs the damaged parts of the vagina for improved functionality.
Feeling self-conscious about your vagina or experiencing reduced functionality and pain in the genitals?
Vaginal reconstruction can significantly improve the function, appearance, and sensation of your vagina including the perineum and labia. The result is achieved by tightening the vaginal muscles and reducing the labia size. Sometimes, the surgery demands pelvic floor and perineum tightening for reshaping the protruded labia that causes hinderance in sexual satisfaction and stress incontinence (urge to go to toilet when urine leaks due to sneezing).
Vaginal reconstruction is a personalized treatment to meet the individual’s needs. Thus, the procedures can be provided solo or in groups.
Vaginoplasty: It’s designed to tighten a lax vagina that has occurred due to childbirth and/or age. It focuses on repairing the pelvic floor muscles and the perineal. The procedure aims to solve problems related to urinary incontinence and a lack of sensation during sexual activity.
Labiaplasty: This procedure is focused on improving the outward appearance of the genital area by reducing the labia size. It’s done for cosmetic purposes, however, women with large labia experience painful sex and discomfort during activities like horse riding and cycling.
Perineum and pelvic floor repair: During childbirth, the perineum often tears, and the pelvic floor muscles loosen their grip. This leads to bulge or heaviness that causes painful sexual intercourse or urinary incontinence. The surgeon tucks in the muscles to improve the tone and strength.
Vaginal reconstruction is performed under a general anaesthetic. The surgery takes up to 2 hours depending on the number of procedures being conducted. Since, it’s an outpatient procedure, hence you can return home on the same day of surgery.
For Vaginoplasty, the surgeon will shorten the stretched muscle present at the back of the vagina with dissolvable sutures, before the extra vaginal lining is removed and tightening the surrounding soft tissues. Once, the ligaments and muscles in the vagina are tightened, they can support the other internal structures including the uterus, bladder, and bowel. Often, the perineum is repaired, too.
For Labiaplasty, the surgeon uses laser or scalpel to separate skin from the labial lips to reduce their size or change their shape. The area is then stitched with dissolvable sutures.
Since vaginal rejuvenation is performed on a highly delicate body part, you will experience soreness, pain, and swelling in the area for up to two weeks. Prescribed medication will provide relief. If, you suffer from high fever after a few days of the surgery, infection may have occurred in the surgical site, and an immediate doctor’s appointment is the solution.
You can resume daily chores after a couple of days post the surgery, however, heavy-duty activities like lifting, jogging, and running must be avoided for a few weeks until complete healing takes place.
After the surgery, sexual activity and heavy-duty exercises should be completely avoided until six weeks. Vagin and its surrounding areas take around six weeks to completely heal.
Our team of skilled and board-certified plastic surgeons provides superior-quality surgical procedures. Further, our anesthetists analyze the pre-operative assessment to select an ideal anesthetic technique to help manage nausea and potential pain. Our purpose-built, hi-tech facility aims to deliver superior pre- and post-operative care.
If functionality and appearance of your genitals is stressing you, it’s time to seek help.
You may need vaginoplasty if your vaginal muscles have lost tone due to childbirth, and reduced oestrogen level causing laxity and thin skin due to age.
For others, their genitals feel bulky through their clothes, and they want to reduce the protruded size.
Yet for others, it may be reduced sensation during sexual activity, or discomfort during exercising and sitting, and they want to enhance the shape and size of their vulva.
Yes. However, as a woman matures in age, her genitals may change and may require a revisit to the surgeon.
Vaginal reconstruction is safe, as per the several medical research reports. However, patients should conduct meticulous search and consult certified gynecologist before booking treatments.
It takes up to 2 weeks for the healing to take place. Patients can resume their daily activities within two days. However, resuming heavy exercise and sexual activity should be avoided until six weeks post the surgery. Doctor may advise using a cold pack to reduce swelling and prescribe pain medication.
Vaginal reconstruction has proved to be effective for several women experiencing poor function and appearance of their vagina. However, non-surgical treatments like lasers, hyaluronic acid fillers, and platelet-rich plasma therapy can be opted as alternative treatment plan.
Depending on the patient’s medical history and condition of the problem the surgeon can suggest either surgical or non-surgical treatment plan for the woman.
We provide effective surgical and non-surgical treatments for all parts of the body. At Cutis Hospital, our cosmetic and plastic surgery team is committed to giving patients safe and high-quality care.
