Hi, I'm Dr. Frank Lista and welcome to the
recovery room at The Plastic Surgery Clinic,
which is a state-of-the-art recovery room,
with expert nursing care, all of the latest
in monitoring equipment, and probably one
of the most beautiful recovery rooms in the
city.
Anyways, today I want to talk a bit about
gynecomastia.
You know, gynecomastia is a very common condition
where men have excess male breasts.
That operation's been around for a while.
But the standard way of doing that operation
is to leave a scar around the edge of the
nipple.
We have developed a new technique which we've
actually published in the Journal of Plastic
Surgery where we make a little tiny incision
and use liposuction to remove not only the
fat, but also the glandular tissue, and we
remove all of that tissue through a little
tiny incision pin prick over on the side so
there is no smiley face around the edge of
the nipple and that greatly improves the result
and makes it so that there's no scar.
People ask, "well what will the result be
like?"
What we say to people is, we can't make you
100% perfect, but we can make it 80% better
and that's a huge, huge improvement.
And patients who have that done are super
happy and actually say, "you know, Dr. Lista,
this operation has changed my life."
Gynecomastia surgery makes people really happy.
So one of the common questions we get about
gynecomastia surgery is can it come back?
And I guess the answer to that is sure, it's
possible that it could come back, but it's
extremely extremely rare.
One of the only reasons why gynecomastia would
come back is a.) if you gain weight, that
can cause the fat to come back, or b.) if
those things that caused gynecomastia continue.
And the most common reasons are use of marijuana
and anabolic steroids.
But if you don't use those products and you
don't gain weight, it's possible that your
gynecomastia could come back, but it's extremely
rare.
Most patients get a great result that lasts
their whole lives, and it changes their lives.
