How Will The Scar Heal After Gynecomastia Surgery?

Immediately after surgery the scar is clean and without visible stitches. In the first 2 weeks you may have darkening of areola skin or scabbing and hardening of the incision area, this can take 2-6 months to go back to normal or soft as the skin is remodelling itself after the surgical trauma. That is one of the reasons we wait 6 months. Occasionally we consider medical steroid injection (kenalog) if the scarring is causing some sort of distortion otherwise I prefer to have patience and to avoid injections as your skin is naturally remodelling the scar from hard to soft.

You will have access to our aftercare team if you have concerns about your healing.