What to know about small-incision armpit deodorant surgery

Surgical methods and advantages: At present, our department adopts the small-incision axillary deodorantia surgical method of “double small-incision flap flap along the axillary skin texture and sweat gland trimming axillary deodorantia radical surgery”, which combines the advantages of all kinds of axillary deodorantia surgical methods, and the length of the incision is about 2-3cm (the incision is slightly longer in some of the patients with a wide axillary hair area), and two incisions are made in one side, and the incision is designed along the skin texture, which maximally takes into account the efficacy (i.e. no recurrence after surgery) and aesthetics (tiny and obvious scar). The incision is designed along the skin texture, maximizing the balance of efficacy (i.e., no recurrence after surgery) and aesthetics (small and inconspicuous scars), and is considered to be the best means of completely treating armpit odour at present, but there may still be a small number of serious patients with residual partial odor possible. Surgery is completed under local swelling anesthesia, the patient is conscious during the surgery, the surgery will remove the sweat glands and hair follicles in the armpit, and retain the surface of the intact skin tissue, the wound can be completely healed in 10 days to two weeks after the surgery, and there is no tugging and pulling sensation, and the appearance of the armpit is small changes. Pre-operative precautions: 1, before the operation need to carry out blood test, coagulation time test, exclude blood system diseases; 2, the day of surgery to avoid colds, fever and other diseases being treated; 3, women need to avoid menstruation; 4, the day of the operation to prepare a loose cardigan (such as a shirt), 5, before the operation should be done underarm local and general hygiene, because after the operation there is a period of time inconvenience. Bathing is not convenient for a period of time after surgery. 6. Shave your own armpit hair a few days before the surgery, but leave a little hair root to mark the surgery area. 7. You must eat before the surgery (e.g. breakfast in the morning and lunch in the afternoon). 8. Surgery is not recommended for patients with keloid and patients who are not yet fully developed. Postoperative precautions: After surgery, the shoulder should be restricted to a large number of activities for about 2-3 days, not to do the action of lifting the upper limbs, during the period of the axilla has more dressings and pressurized bandages, shoulder line inverted octagonal binding bandage to prevent the role of the axilla postoperative hematoma, the self-conscious bandage is tighter than the normal phenomenon, such as if the binding is too tight, resulting in swelling of the two upper limbs, please contact with the surgeon in a timely manner, do not remove the armpit bandage or loose binding bandage. Do not remove the axillary bandage or untie the loose bandage by yourself, so as to avoid the formation of hematoma. After the operation, except for the shoulder joint braking elbow and hands can move normally, generally can take care of themselves, can be engaged in non-physical nature of the work, two weeks after the operation, the upper limbs can return to normal free activities; one month after the operation, depending on the situation of sports. After axillary surgery generally need to come to the hospital 2-3 times to change the medicine, smooth healing of wounds after surgery generally 10 days to 2 weeks, after which you can take a bath, touch water, but there are a small number of incisions delayed healing, need a few more days to fully heal (often and shoulder activities, but generally several times to change the medicine or self-medication can be fully healed). The underarm incision is usually flat after surgery and the postoperative scar fades and becomes less noticeable over time.