Gynecomastia Surgery and Torsoplasty
After gynecomastia surgery, a few patients have looked at their newly sculpted, flat chests and then glanced at the bulging love handles on their sides.
A procedure designed to take care of the excess fatty bulges between the collarbones to the pubic area is the Torsoplasty.
But hold on, sports fans! The Torsoplasty is for men at — or near — their optimum weight. Rough rule of thumb is: if you can pinch and hold a fatty area anywhere on your chest or lower abdomen, we can remove it while you are undergoing gynecomastia plastic surgery.
But if you have a protruding beer belly, a Torsoplasty can’t help there – the procedure is not a treatment for obesity. That fat sits deep within your body, surrounding your internal organs. The fat we remove is above the muscle layer and just under the skin.
The only known treatment for that deep-down fat is the one you probably don’t want to hear: eat less, work out more.
Torsoplasty is something to consider if you are going to have gynecomastia surgery to remove your man boobs. The cost of surgery is much less by combining the two procedures in one surgical session.
Torsoplasty is often appropriate because even a very fit and active guy can be subjected to Mother Nature’s whims and have deposits of fat on the chest, stomach and side that just will not respond to stricter dieting and the most active workouts.
How capricious is Mother Nature? When a male gains weight, fat usually appears first on his chest, stomach and love handles. After that, the weight appears on the rest of his body.
And as he loses weight, the last places to become thinner are:
- The love handles
- Stomach
- Chest.
You can get an idea of the typical patients by looking at some Torsoplasty and gynecomastia surgery before and after pictures. (Pan down to picture #68)
After a Torsoplasty, the patient wears a one-piece body suit that fastens with eyes and hooks as well as a zipper.
It all helps:
- The body to heal
- Skin to tighten
- Lessen swelling
- Reduce pain