Brachio Scar Revision: cost?

I had brachioplasty last November and the right arm looks terrific. Most of the left arm looks good too, but there's  a small spot (about 1.5") where it  "spit the stitch" about a week or two after surgery. The scar there is thicker and wider, and there's a little pleat in the skin next to it.

My question: would I be expected to pay for a scar revision? Someone else paid for the brachio, and I simply don't have the money to get it fixed. I have heard that some surgeons will do revisions for free. If you have experience in this area I'd love to hear from you.

I'd call your surgeon's office to find out but most dr's do revisions for free. Your revisions sounds relatively minor and can probably be done in the office. Now if you had to go the the hospital as an outpatient then you would be responsible for the OR and anesthesia but I don't think that will be the case.

Normally the way it works with revisions is you pay for the OR time and Anesthesia but you pay nothing for the surgeon.  Now, if it is a minor thing like restitching an inch or two my guess would be your surgeon can do it under local with numbing and probably won't charge you anything.  But that's just my guess.....ask the surgeon he/she will have no problem telling you what they can/can't do.

Best wishes on the revision.

Revision policies vary from surgeon to surgeon (and sometimes it is a judgment call about whether a revision is really "necessary"), but my surgeon fixed the 2-3 inch spot just above my left elbow where the incision was nice and thin and white but was "wiggly" (not "jagged" but not straight) for free as an office procedure under local anesthetic.

Lora