#this isnt generalising americans its just that when you search up top surgery things it is mostly americans lol

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Something I've noticed from the few UK top surgeries I've seen is that their scar lines are remarkably straight and thin! Whereas, American surgeries seem to end up with many more thick and crooked lines. Just something interesting to me! Maybe Americans aren't as careful with themselves during the healing process or maybe UK top surgeons just perform neater surgeries. Interested to find out which it is but that seems to be a very hard census to run.

oh huh i feel like i haven't looked at scars enough to notice this. my scars are very thin and parts have got v close to my skin tone already though :-o but, see, there is actually one thing i did notice - in the run-up to surgery i was doing all this research of course, on what to bring and eat and use, and all the american videos they had SO much stuff for like after surgery and before compared to non-americans i watched who just kinda left things alone to heal. like, things that when i actually spoke to the surgeon he was like no thats unnecessary you just have to keep it clean and safe and it'll be fine. (i was ready to be redoing dressings like th american videos but actually i just kept things totally untouched for a bit over a week, then had a new dressing on one side for reason i will say next, and then basically not much at all... so maybe that effects things?).. i also didn't have drains, which i've noticed being more common with americans i think, because my surgeon didnt want to have them when again theyre not necessary. i had a small fluid/dead blood build up on one side under the incision but it was just drained manually (im not scared of needles to its fine) and the other side didnt need anything.. so i wonder if the drains effect it at all? i've seen people having problems with the hole where they enter i think, things reopening which, scary. Another thought that just occurred to me is that people in america seem to travel very far (yknow because its a big country) to go to specific surgeons whereas here its like,, get it on the nhs or go to a private cosmetic surgeon, so idk if there's difference there. .. my surgeon also didn't do incisions that i've seen on (again) mostly american peoples videos. . like inverted-t (he advised against this because its mostly for breast reduction and doesnt lay as flat and is harder to heal sometimes) and button and fish-mouth and that double incision thats connected in the middle (though correct me if im wrong but i think this is used more so for if youre heavier weight? iirc?) .. i just had double incision w nipple grafts and hm ye, it turned out v neat. ok this is a long ramble, but ya. if there rly is a noticeable comparable different between places thatd be interesting to figure out for sure . this is just thinking out loud because thats an interesting thing to bring up ngl