why cant you remove the belly button after the umbrella(umbilical) cord is removed?
In: Biology
I really, really want to believe that you meant to say not “umbrella” but “umbilicus”. So I will believe that, and scorn Autocorrect.
Surgery isn’t uniformly able to remove such a curvaceous scar as the belly button to nothing. Rather will attempts to remove a scar likely replace it with a different scar.
And this is the most normal scar of all, isn’t it? Even those post-obesity tummytucks will not deign to leave the patient as scarless as they might be, but to construct a close approximation of the belly button.
Maybe think of it like the end of a balloon. You use the end to blow in air to fill it up. Humans use the umbilical to ‘blow in’ nutrients and blood and stuff. Then at the end you tie off the balloon, or cut the umbilical.
If you tie it off you can’t really remove the knot per se. To ‘remove’ it you’d really need to remold the rubber and make a new flat surface. To do that your belly button would need to heal in a different way and for no clearly perceivable benefit.
You can. My mother and grandfather both had theirs removed during surgery for something else and it was in the way
Because the navel (belly button) is the scar from where the umbilical cord was attached. You can’t magically make a scar disappear. If you try to remove it surgically, you’ll just have another, different looking scar in the same place.
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