First of all, it should be clear that axillary odor itself does not affect the health of the patient; the reason why axillary odor needs to be treated is that it is a disease that seriously affects the patient’s social life.
Since this is the case, the focus of treatment should be on eradicating or minimizing the odor without creating other complications that affect the patient’s daily life, so that the patient can have normal interpersonal interactions.
Anti-perspirant and deodorant, Europeans and Americans almost a handful of bottles, is a must-have home travel medicine
First of all, the need to get out of the misunderstanding is – armpit odor must need to go to the hospital to cure, if your armpit odor is not heavy, you can use deodorant to cover up, and willing to spend a long time to buy and use deodorant cover, then congratulations, you found a suitable method for their own but a friendly reminder, because the incidence of armpit odor in China is much lower than in Europe and the United States. In the domestic supermarket is not so full of antiperspirant and deodorant shelves Oh!
If you can not stand the tedium of using deodorant every day, or deodorant is not very effective, or can not stand the unique scent of deodorant, or simply want to “once and for all” to cure armpit odor, then please come to the hospital.
Another misconception that needs to be addressed here is that you have to undergo surgery to come to the hospital for treatment. There are still some non-surgical ways to treat armpit odor!
For example, this
laser treatment
or this
Botox injection
I’ve only heard of Botox for wrinkles, but I’ve never heard of Botox for armpit odor – in fact, Botox can also be used to slim the face, thin calves, migraine treatment, the so-called a drug for multiple purposes!
Non-surgical treatment is the exact efficacy, but the recurrence rate is high, requiring multiple treatments, such as Botox requires 1-2 injections per year, if you are not very heavy symptoms, and very afraid of surgery, and also a little bit of dirt, then come on, non-surgical treatment is a good choice for you!
By now you should understand that for the majority of patients with armpit odor, surgery is a more economical and appropriate treatment compared to other treatments. And, surgery is the only treatment that has the hope of curing armpit odor.
So the question is, how to do surgery? What kind of surgery? Scratching? Suction? Small incision cutting? Ultra-thin flap? Or traditional surgery? In the end, for the patient, it is a question of whether to make a large incision in the axilla or to perform a minimally invasive procedure.
Here is a classic picture from abdominal surgery
The incision in the armpit and the flap opening have their unique advantages – the surgeon can remove the patient’s sweat glands under direct vision (those who do not have an incision do not understand the pain of the surgeon not being able to see the surgical field), and theoretically the efficiency should be stronger than the minimally invasive method, but the biggest disadvantages are 1) the residual scar in the armpit; 2) the probability of problems with the wound is high, and a few patients After the operation, a few patients need to receive a long time to change the treatment, some even up to several months, which is an extremely troublesome thing for the patient itself, bringing pain even through more than the armpit odor itself.
So what will the scar in the armpit look like after the incision in the armpit?
It may look like this
No effect on wearing sleeveless clothes in the future
It may look like this
It’s okay, but will people suspect me of having breast implants when they see it?
Maybe so
It seems like I can’t really wear sleeveless in summer.
Maybe even like this
Thank God, traditional surgery has been eliminated, and only in a very few hospitals is this type of surgery still being done.
In fact, in the author’s experience, the first case is rare and only a very few patients can’t see the scar; the fourth case has basically disappeared; and most patients end up in the second and third cases of scarring. Therefore, if you are a girl who likes to show her armpits in summer and wear camisoles coolly, it is better to try not to choose to open your armpits, although the scar can still be followed up, but it will never be able to make it disappear completely. If you are a big old man who doesn’t care about scarring in the armpit, then this method is still very suitable for you.
Finally, let’s talk about minimally invasive surgery
What is minimally invasive, the benevolent, the wise, there is no uniform standard. For armpit odor surgery, I’m afraid that the scar can be controlled within 1.0cm is considered minimally invasive.
The misconception that needs to be addressed is that the efficiency and recurrence rate of minimally invasive surgery is significantly lower than that of surgery with larger incisions in the axilla.
In fact, a study published in the Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery by Weiwei Li et al. showed that the cure rates for small incisional excision (axillary incision) and aspiration (minimally invasive) were 90.6% and 84.8%, respectively; the apparent efficiency was 97% and 94%, respectively; and the efficiency rate was 100%. The difference in the cure rate between the two methods was slight, and the difference in the efficacy rate was even smaller. In fact, for mild, moderate, and some severe patients, there is no difference between minimally invasive aspiration and small incision methods; only in a small number of severe patients, small incision treatment results in a better cure rate at the expense of a higher complication rate.
As for the scar, minimally invasive aspiration has obvious advantages, as long as there is a small scar of about 5 mm on the inner side of the upper arm, which does not affect the wearing of sleeveless clothes in the future.
The scar of the aspiration method will be as big as the small eye on the left side of the aspiration tube.
I would like to say a few words about the minimally invasive method.
First, minimally invasive has its obvious advantages, but it is not the same as saying that minimally invasive treatment of axillary odor has achieved a complete replacement for small incisions, ultra-thin flaps and other surgical methods.
Second, it is certain that minimally invasive is the future development direction of the treatment of axillary odor, but also the development direction of plastic surgery and even the whole surgery. Over the years, laparoscopic cholecystectomy and laparoscopic gynecological surgery have become the “standard” surgery in their respective fields, and the introduction of robotic surgery in recent years has invariably confirmed this point. Perhaps one day, minimally invasive treatment can achieve the purpose of completely curing armpit odor, which is the common struggle of all plastic surgeons.
Finally, after all this, you may find that none of the many complicated treatments can really guarantee a cure for armpit odor!
Yes, we have known about armpit odor for many years, fought with it for many years, and achieved fruitful results, but we can’t beat it completely yet.
However, please go back to the first paragraph of this article: armpit odor is just a disease that affects the patient’s social life, and the fundamental purpose of treatment is to enable the patient to return to normal social life. Even if there is a slight residual smell, as long as it does not affect the patient’s interpersonal communication, the purpose of treatment will be achieved, don’t you think so?