Comprehensive Guide To Vaginal Rejuvenation
There are thousands of procedures focussed on women to help them hold on to their youth as long as they can. Vaginal rejuvenation falls into that category with promises of tightening of the vagina, stopping incontinence, eliminating vaginal dryness, and more. Here we will discuss various vaginal rejuvenation procedures carried out and help you give a brief comprehensive detail about this procedure.
What is Vaginal Rejuvenation? Know Here
So what exactly is this procedure? Or how can we define it? Here is our answer to that question, Vaginal rejuvenation is a broad term used for vaginal corrective treatments. The procedures can be done to solve problems, such as lack of vaginal tightness and urinary incontinence. These procedures are meant to correct problems that can occur after giving birth or due to aging. Conditions can include:
Laxity (lack of tightness) of the vagina
Stress urinary incontinence
Lack of lubrication
The term vaginal rejuvenation covers several different procedures. It is sometimes called female genital plastic surgery, female genital rejuvenation surgery, female genital cosmetic surgery, vulvovaginal plastic surgery, and designer vagina surgery, among other terms. Among the procedures that comprise female genital plastic surgery are labiaplasty, clitoral hood reduction, and vaginoplasty.
Who Gets This Treatment?
The main two groups of women who get this treatment are:
Postmenopausal women
Postpartum women
Various types of vaginal rejuvenation techniques:
Here, we will discuss various types of techniques used to carry out vaginal rejuvenation. Some of them include labiaplasty, clitoral hood reduction, and vaginoplasty. So, let’s see how these treatments are carried out.
What is Labiaplasty?
The term labiaplasty refers to the procedure that reduces the length of labia minora. It is the most commonly practiced vaginal rejuvenation technique and it can relieve the symptoms women experience from twisting and tugging of the labia.
What Are The Reasons Why Patients Want Labiaplasty?
Women opt for labiaplasty for a variety of reasons, including pain from twisting and tugging of labia when riding a bicycle or during intercourse, itching, irritation, and self-consciousness.
What Does Labiaplasty Do?
The goal of the procedure is to reduce the labia minors so that they don’t hang below the hair-bearing labia majora. A labiaplasty may be carried out to reduce asymmetry when one is longer than the other or more commonly to reduce the length of both labia so that labia no longer twist, tug or fall out.
What is The Procedure Used In Labioplasty?
The most common type of labiaplasty is the trim procedure in which the extra tissue is removed and sewn up directly. Next in the popularity is the wedge procedure, which maintains a natural border after a piece of pie-shaped tissue has been removed. Extra folds of clitoral hoods can also be reduced at the same time. The closure is usually done with absorbable sutures.
What Are The Risks of Labioplasty?
Although labioplasty is quite an effective procedure we have also observed that it may have certain risks. It’s similar to the risks associated with most surgical procedures, including bleeding hematoma and infection. The most common complication is over-resection. Healing problems are more likely to occur with a wedge procedure, particularly if the patient is exposed to substances that cause blood vessels to shrink.
What Are The Recovering Guidelines To Be Kept In Mind After The Surgery?
We suggest the patients take a leave of about week so as to rest and recover. This would enable them to reduce the swelling and pain by icing using cold packs sandwiched between the patient’s underpants and an elastic garment, like a Spanx. The patient can also reduce the pain by lying with her bottom elevated. The patient can resume wearing tampons or have intercourse after four to six weeks. While most of the distorted swelling is gone by six weeks, residual swelling may take six months to disappear.
What Are The Results of Labiaplasty?
Labiaplasty results in typically shorter labia that no longer hangs down below the level of the hair-bearing labia majora. Most of the patients who experienced symptoms from twisting and tugging of their labia generally find relief after the surgery. According to multiple studies, labiaplasty surgery is associated with a high satisfaction rate of over 90 percent.
CLITORAL HOOD REDUCTION
What is clitoral hood reduction?
Excessive folds of the clitoral hood can be reduced with a clitoral hood reduction. This procedure is generally done along with labiaplasty.
What does a clitoral hood reduction do?
The extra folds can create a bulge that is exaggerated when the labia minora are reduced, and clitoral hood reduction can improve the balance in the appearance of the female genitalia.
What is the procedure used in clitoral hood reduction?
The excess tissue is marked according to the individual’s anatomy. There is a wide variation in the shape and extent of folds. In some patients, the excision is performed a ‘Y’ extension off the labiaplasty. The closure is usually done with an absorbable suture.
What are the risks of a clitoral hood reduction?
There is a risk of bleeding, hematoma, infection, under resection, or over resection.
What Are The Results of Clitoral Hood Reduction?
In some patients with a heavy clitoral hood, a labiaplasty without clitoral hood reduction can result in a top-heavy look. A clitoral hood reduction can lend balance to a labiaplasty in such patients. The clitoral hood reduction is generally performed with labiaplasty, which has a high satisfaction rate of 90 percent.
What is Labia Majoraplasty?
A labia majoraplasty is a procedure designed to surgically reduce the size of the outer, hair-bearing labia majora.
What Are The Reasons Why Patients Opt For Labia Majoraplasty?
Patients who feel that their labia majora is too large or hang down may feel discomfort from activities such as cycling or they may be embarrassed by the fullness.
What is The Procedure Involved in Labia Majoraplasty?
The plastic surgeon removes two slight crescents of skin from the inner portion of each labium. The amount to be removed depends upon the amount of excess tissue. In some cases, when there is an atrophy of fatty tissue, a small amount of fat can be transferred from another area of the body after liposuction. The closure is usually done with absorbable sutures.
What Are The Risks Involved in Labia Majoraplasty?
Risks include bleeding, hematoma, infection, scarring, under resection, and over resection.
What Are The Results of Labia Majoraplasty?
The procedure results in smaller, tighter labia majora. In patients with excess skin, drooping of the labia majora when the patient is standing is usually improved. In patients with excess volume, this procedure can result in a lower profile.
What is Vaginoplasty?
Vaginoplasty is the procedure designed to tighten the vagina. An alternative is noninvasive vaginal tightening through heating tissues with radiofrequency waves or lasers. Patients with significant laxity may not experience a benefit from these treatments and may be better candidates for surgical tightening with vaginoplasty.
Reasons Why Patients opt For Vaginoplasty?
After childbirth, women may complain of vaginal laxity, resulting from stretching of tissues and separating of muscles, sometimes to a point that tampons out, and this lack of tone can contribute to sexual dysfunction.
What Does A Vaginoplasty Do?
A vaginoplasty brings the separated muscles together, and the extra mucosa skin from the backside of the vagina is removed. The external skin can also be removed for a more aesthetic appearance.
What is The Procedure Involved in Vaginoplasty?
Once, the amount of tightening to be done is determined, a pie-shaped wedge is marked to delineate the extra skin to be removed from inside the vagina. Beneath the skin, the tissues are tightened with strong sutures. Once the vaginal canal has been tightened, the mucosal skin is sutured closed. If there is external skin that protrudes, this can be as well reduced.
What Are The Risks of Vaginoplasty?
Risks from vaginoplasty infection, bleeding, pain along with rare complications.
Results of A Vaginoplasty?
This procedure typically results in a tighter vaginal canal, which can help enhance sexual satisfaction.
So, these are a few treatment procedures we found to be quite effective and most popular out of the various vaginal rejuvenation techniques carried out. They are quite beneficial and most of the women opting for these seem to be quite satisfied by the results. Now, let’s take a look at reconstructive vaginal surgeries and cosmetic vaginal surgeries.
Reconstructive Surgeries v/s Cosmetic Surgeries
Reconstructive surgeries the function of a body part, while cosmetic surgery changes the aesthetics of essentially normal anatomy. Some vaginoplasty procedures, for instance, were originally developed as reconstructive surgeries to repair birth defects when the vagina was malformed, too short, or absent so that a girl could grow up to have normal urination, menstruation, and intercourse.
So, as a conclusion, we would like to quote the words of Joe Hill, who is a urogynecologist, regarding vaginal rejuvenation. “The term vaginal rejuvenation covers essentially anything that changes or alters the vaginal anatomy. That includes both internal and external structures. It’s natural to have the urge to turn back the hands of the clock and counteract the signs of aging. However, we also suggest that you should not put your mental or physical health at risk. And, always remember to talk to your gynecologist before opting for any surgeries. This would enable you to keep yourselves from risks and such procedures and enable you to gain only the best out of them.
We would also suggest you refer to the following links, in case of more queries and doubts:
•https://my.clevelandclinic.org
•https://healthcare.utah.edu
•https://www.plasticsurgery.org
•https://www.healthline.com