Before & After

BREAST RECONSTRUCTION

     ● Immediate or Delayed 

       Breast Reconstruction

     ● Reconstructive Timeline

     ● DIEP Flap

     ● PAP Flap

     ● Tissue Expanders & Implants

     ● Direct to Implant

     ● Lumpectomy Reconstruction

 

ADDITIONAL PROCEDURES

     ● Nipple Reconstruction

     ● Symmetry Surgery

     ● Breast Fat Grafting

     ● Revision Surgery

     ● Lymphedema Surgery

 

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

     ● Choosing Not to Have

       Reconstruction

     ● Young Women with Breast

       Cancer

     ● Patients with High BMI

     ● BRCA 1 & BRCA 2

     ● Advanced Breast Cancer

 

BREAST CANCER

     ● Lumpectomy or Mastectomy

     ● Skin Sparing Mastectomy

     ● Nipple Sparing Mastectomy

     ● Prophylactic Mastectomy

     ● Radiation Therapy

     ● Chemotherapy

     ● Hormone Therapy

 

 

 

Symmetry Surgery

The goal of breast reconstruction is to make the reconstructed breast look natural and symmetric with your healthy breast.  In some cases the best result is achieved by performing surgery on the other healthy breast as well.  Symmetry can be achieved by making the healthy breast larger with an implant, smaller with a breast reduction, or by lifting the breast with a mastopexy.  Following mastectomy reconstruction, this balancing procedure is typically done in a separate operation after you have had a chance to heal from breast reconstruction.  In lumpectomy reconstruction the symmetry procedure, on the healthy breast, can typically be done at the same time as the reconstruction.

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