Basics of Labiaplasty Explained

Hi, I’m Dr. Katerina Gallus and we’re gonna do a little demonstration of labiaplasty. The flower and the blue towels are representing the labia majora and labia minora. And this would be the clitoral hood right here. And so for a lot of reasons women choose to have the excess labia minora trimmed. And there’s a several ways you can do this operation but my preferred way because it leaves a lovely scar that’s hidden, is to do a trim. And so in the office at your consultation, I will mark this area for you so that you can see what is going to be removed and we can agree on a plan before any surgery happens. So this would be marking for excision of excess labia. Women have this done for very many reasons to include just getting in the way of clothing, chaffing with athletic activity, problems with different sports. And so then once the area is marked and everything is appropriately numbed then the excess tissue is trimmed. And then I’m gonna trim off the excess. Like that. So again it’s very important to mark prior to doing the surgery because we are infiltrating local anesthesia. And so we have to rely on our markings once that’s done. So this would be an example of excess labia removed. And then it’s very simple to just suture up this area with – this is not an absorbable suture – but normally I would use an absorbable suture -it’s just this blue color. And then you just suture it like so. And then these sutures are absorbable and fall out on their own. And we would place two or three more sutures along each edge depending on the length of the labia. And then with appropriate post-op activities you can be back to your work in three to five days and back to physical exercise and activity in four to six weeks.