Get to the Bottom of Your Belly Button
Sources Reviewed by Melinda Ratini, MS, DO on August 07, 2020 Medically Reviewed on August 07, 2020
Reviewed by Melinda
Ratini, MS, DO on
August 07, 2020
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SOURCES:
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery: “Reconsidering the Belly Button.”
CDC: “Facts About Omphalocele,” “Facts About Gastroschisis.”
Center for Young Women’s Health: “Body Piercing.”
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital: “Umbilical Hernia.”
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital: “Innies vs. Outies.”
Mayo Clinic: “Umbilical Hernia.”
National Geographic Society: “Belly Button Biodiversity.”
NPR: “An Omnivore’s Dilemma: Would You Eat Michael Pollan Microbe Cheese?”
Palo Alto Medical Foundation: “Body Piercing.”
Penn State: “Stay Sanitary,” “What Causes an Innie or Outie Belly Button?”
UC Berkeley Health Services: “Body Piercings: Cleaning and Healing.”
U.S. National Library of Medicine: “Umbilical Hernia Repair,” “In Search of the Ideal Female Umbilicus.”
Your Wild Life: “Belly Button Biodiversity.”
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