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Gynecomastia’s Bogus Cures
I have often said — and written — the only cure for true gynecomastia is surgical excision of the underlying breast tissue. But it seems like the words of a mere plastic surgeon with 25 years experience treating gynecomastia doesn’t count for much, judging by the tons of advertising that feature a quick and cheap... »
Gynecomastia Surgery Costs Down in 2009
One of the big worries bothering economists is deflation. That’s a period when the cost of many items drop, meaning that manufacturers and service providers must use fewer workers due to less profit received. Yearly, the professional plastic surgery societies like the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) crunch the numbers on the previous... »
Rhinoplasty: Is that Open or Closed?
You may know me here mostly for gynecomastia surgery but I also do many other plastic surgery procedures. One of my favorite and most frequently performed plastic surgery procedures is the “nose job” or rhinoplasty. Because a human nose is so small and intricate, with many interconnecting tissues, it is something like working on a... »
Gynecomastia Surgery and Its Results
A professor of plastic surgery once explained that, not two, but three parties are actually involved in any cosmetic plastic surgery: the patient and the surgeon, of course, but Mother Nature and the healing process are also lending a hand. Mother Nature stays in the mix quite a while afterwards — because any surgery is... »
Gynecomastia Surgery: What Happens Afterwards?
So many patients ask what happens after a male breast reduction procedure, I prepared a handout listing virtually all the questions that are most frequently asked. (FAQs.) (I also have a handout instructing patients what to do before surgery.) After any cosmetic plastic surgery procedure, the main concerns are: Infections Bleeding Fluid collections The chest is usually – temporarily –... »
Gynecomastia Surgery: Do You Tell Others?
Read the comments on bulletin boards at gynecomastia.org and you’ll find that teens, younger and older men are often puzzled what to tell others about an upcoming male breast reduction surgery. First: the law of the land governs your right to total medical privacy. That law, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Accounting Act) requires everybody to... »
Gynecomastia Surgery: Realistic Expectations
The whole point of gynecomastia surgery is removing some excess skin, fat and breast tissue to look better with a more trim, taunt, masculine chest. Note, I didn’t say perfect. My patients want to look better for the following reasons: Weight lifters want perfection Teens want to look like other teens 20 and 30-sometings want to look good... »
Gynecomastia Surgery Instruments: My Own Design
For many years, virtually all gynecomastia surgeons made a half circle incisions around the patient’s areolas, the dark areas surrounding the nipples. The next step was removing the dense, fibrous male gynecomastia breast tissue with a pair of forceps and then, for removal, making an incision at the bottom of the breast tissue that sits... »