labiaplasty: Labiaplasty (Vaginoplasty): A Feminine Prerogative

By Charles Gruenwald, MD

Introduction

Genital cosmetic surgery for women, often referred to as Labiaplasty or vaginoplasty, has been quietly gaining popularity throughout the United States, as well as abroad. Although labia reduction, performed as a treatment for confirmed surgical conditions of the labia, has been used by surgeons for over half a century, its refinement into an aesthetic surgical procedure for female genitalia, which is now called Labiaplasty, has evolved most significantly during the past decade. This has resulted in the introduction of several new techniques for this procedure, published in the plastic surgical literature, and each touting certain advantages. The mainstream media has, likewise, picked up on this rising Labiaplasty popularity with sporadic superficial treatment of this topic in various articles and shows.

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