This is a five arm, prospective, randomized, trial. Patients undergoing abdominoplasty or abdominally-based free tissue transfer (TRAM/DIEP flaps) at NYU Medical Center will be randomly assigned to receive one of five conventionally used umbilicoplasty techniques during the course of their surgery:
1. Round procedure
2. "Scarless" round procedure
3. "Inverted u" procedure
4. "Inverted v" procedure, and
5. "Y deepithelialized" procedure
As there has not yet been a superiority or inferiority comparison of these five methods, no patient will be receiving substandard care by randomization to one of the five procedures.
