staples vs hand stitching

Just curious for those of you that have had PS -did your surgeon use staples to close the incision or hand stitch?

mine used hand stitch and I think it looks really good! very straight and thin lines.

I had no stitches or staples on the external incision. Mine were all glued shut and I love the results. Very thin scars and other than the junction on my thighs where the 3 incisions met, I've had no separation of my incisions at all.

Sonya

He did my mom's with staples and mine with hand stitches.  We both look good. 

It hurts less to remove stitches than staples - so I'm a fan of stitches. 

All of my incisions were sutured closed with internal sutures. It left me with very thin scars. There were no stitches to be removed.

hand stitched with sutures that are not visible on the outside and glue applied on top of that. No sutures to be removed, and very thin suture lines. I did have my incisions spread wider on my thighs, probably due to the tension. We are discussing revising those, but due to the amount of complicaitons I've had with PS, both my surgeon and I are a llittle leary of doing that. It is on the "future" list, but we will see.

I had hand stitches that look like the quilting kind.  I have a very straight very small line and am 6 weeks post surgery.  I am very pleased.

No external stitches or staples or steri-strips.  Just glue.  My scars are healing nicely!

All internal stitches and steri-strips except for my arms....they had a combo of internal stitches, a few stapes and glue along the whole incision line.

On my LBL and my MTL, it was all inside.

My arms were all internal.. but I believe I recall with my BL/BA there might have initially been either a staple or external stitch or two where three parts came together.. I had a keyhole incision but also a cut underneath that ran from the inside bottom of each breast outward then up along my side and met my brachioplasty incisions as they came down through my armpit onto my side.  The staple or stitches I remember were where the bottom of the keyhole came together under each breast and met the incision running underneath.