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Gynecomastia Surgery: Your Consultation
Once you’ve found a few plastic surgeons you might be interested in working with, it’s time to arrange consultations. These appointments with prospective surgeons are all-important. In treating patients with gynecomastia in Manhattan, we find that those who are well informed and make the ultimate choice of plastic surgeon carefully are typically more satisfied... »
Gynecomastia for Klinfelter Syndrome
Gynecomastia surgery is often done on men and boys who find themselves with a complex, extremely troubling genetic condition known as Klinfelter (also spelled “Klinefelter”) Syndrome. About the only good news: plastic surgeons can usually tell those patients that insurance coverage for male breast reduction surgery for Klinfelter’s is often available. (Read our previous... »
After Gynecomastia Surgery: Back to the Gym?
Body builders always ask cosmetic plastic surgeons how soon after gynecomastia surgery can they: Go back to work Return to their weight lifting routines Most guys can return to sedentary work after about a week while still wearing compression vests which are easily hidden under clothing. Our patients wear a compression garment for four... »
Plastic Surgery for Weight Losers
Many gynecomastia patients are interested in general weight loss, so we thought you might like to know the untold side of the popular T.V. show, “Biggest Loser.” After the weight loss competition, some contestants have a plastic surgery procedure known alternately as body shaping, body lifting and body contouring. After a loss of 100... »
Gynecomastia’s Top Five Facts
Some questions about gynecomastia – the condition of unusually large male breasts – come up time and again. Here are the top five that I most hear, and answer, most frequently. 1. Gynecomastia’s cause The condition, which most often begins during puberty, may be caused by unbalanced hormones, as a side effect from the... »
Gynecomastia and Unhappy Patients
A concept I often explain to patients is known officially as realistic expectations. The concept? Any plastic surgeon can make the appearance of a normal person much, much better. But not perfect. In any surgery, the trade off for the benefit you receive is some type of scar. In essence, patients must be realistic... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »