Surgery After Weight Loss To Reshape your Breasts or Chest
After the abdomen, the breast/chest area is the second most common place where patients experience changes they want to address after losing significant amounts of weight.
Because people differ so markedly in the way this key area is affected by weight loss, personal consultation with an experienced, board certified plastic surgeon like Sacramento's Dr. David Kaufman is key to planning and achieving great results.
For Women
For most women who lose massive amounts of weight, volume deflation of the breasts just comes with the territory. Breasts experience and respond to many influences throughout normal life — including pregnancy, nursing, gravity and aging — so it's not surprising that they are so affected by significant weight loss.
What's not so obvious is the best surgical plan for restoring a healthy, youthful look. Some women who have minor to moderate deflation and droopiness may find a breast lift is all they need. Others with very large breasts may discover they still need a breast reduction even after dropping many pounds.
If your breasts seem extremely saggy, even "empty," once you're at or near your target weight, don't feel bad. The majority of women experience changes in their breast tissue and skin after weight loss that are significant enough to warrant breast augmentation or breast augmentation with breast lift.
When you come in for a consultation to discuss plastic surgery after weight loss in Sacramento with Dr. Kaufman, he will take measurements and perform a thorough evaluation of your breasts. He will also listen carefully to your goals. Then he will recommend the best way to approach breast surgery after weight loss in his Sacramento surgical center. Depending on your needs, it may be a single procedure or a two-stage operation.
For Men
Even though the male chest is not quite as susceptible to dramatic change as the female breast, male breast skin often stretches so much during weight gain that the chest looks quite unsightly once the weight is gone. The redundant skin, descriptively referred to as an "envelope," hangs down and makes it impossible to wear a bathing suit or even a t-shirt in public.
If you're considering male breast contouring, you should know it carries potential risks just like any surgery. But the body image benefits can be enormous, allowing you to swim, work out at the gym and be comfortable in intimate situations.
Once you've succeeded in shedding the weight, surgery to reshape your breasts or recontour your chest can be the final step in revealing your slim, healthy new shape. Men and women throughout California and from other states like Oregon and Nevada discuss post weight loss plastic surgery with Dr. Kaufman. Why not join them? Call 916-983-9895 and come meet with him. The office is conveniently located in Folsom on East Bidwell Street, a short drive from greater Sacramento and just a few hours from San Francisco and San Jose.
