freefromG,
What seems quite minor in a picture can be very conspicuous in real life and even more frustrating nd depressing for the sufferer. In fact, go ahead and use the flash on your camera, and the problem will magically disappear in your pics!
It is hard to capture properly as there as the problem is mainly the dent in the up and to the centre from the nipple and to the centre and below that means that one pec is not full compared to the other with a shirt on, from front or side view
I do see the glandish contour. What I dint quite get is that how could you have a protrusion at the nipples and a dent over it. I mean I would assume that either the doc took out too much leaving a dent, or took out too little leaving a bulge. But how can you have both?
Well there is gland remaining but fat (and i only had excision) must have been removed from these areas somehow, or even worse mistaken for gland..
How long has it been since you got surgery? I suggest you take a picture with more light to highlight all your contours. It is best to have someone else click a picture of you if that doesnt bother you.
It has been just over 3 months so still hold hope yet, would get someone to take a pic but i have kept this whole thing to myself...which makes it mentally more difficult not buyin able to talk to family or friends, really thought this was a straight forward
Ive seen your pics Decimal, as an observer and seeing the results immediately after surgery it looked pretty damn good, i can see and feel what your goin through now but mate. Its a good thing that others consider such complications prior to going ahead and understand that even if the gland is gone, the unnatural results can often leave a very sour taste.
All things improve in time, and when it comes down to it, we really have nothing to complain about health wise, its all in our heads, when i look at a lot of poor ppl hobbling around or sick and whatever.
be good if anyone has feedback on dermal fillers, and no offence Drs, informing us of fat flap techniques now and how you dont do fat grafts etc is just disheartening.
There is a significant chance that I perform more
Revision Gynecomastia Surgery on other doctors misadventures than anyone in the world. This is more complicated surgery and much more difficult that doing good surgery the first time. Preventing such complications through patient education is much better than needing much more expensive more difficult sculpture.
What is even more disheartening is to see new patients fall victim to techniques I have seen so many failures from. If a technique works, the doctor claiming it works should be able to show such documentation. This documentation should include animation. How the tissues move such as with
Standard After Gynecomastia Pictures or better yet
Standard After Gynecomastia Video can really show if a technique has merit or limitations. Hiding the limitations of a lemon car is part of the art of a used car salesman. That is the problem of looking at limited before and after photos, the angles that change from patient to patient to put the best foot forward and hide the potential issues.
An unscarred fat layer is the lubrication of the chest permitting the skin to glide over the animation of the muscles. The problem with dermal fillers, is that they are not like fat. They are designed to have the consistency of the firmer dermis which is more like scar tissue or gland. Fat graft survival in fat is poor, that is why Sid Coleman's lectures features putting the fat in more vascularized muscle. Putting the fat in the muscle for the chest will not compensate for a depression in the fat layer and moves miserably.
I have attended several such lectures over the years. Never once have I seen presented such animation documentation. Yet I have seen patients after these experts' surgery myself, both at meetings, on television, and in movies. Seeing such a person in life, I become quite uncomfortable looking at these grotesque failures of animation that the surgeons cover up with selective still images. It is like looking at a horrible deformity, as a doctor I can hide such feeling externally just as I do with those mutilated with cancer or trauma.
Accepting compromise is critical and is key to an ethical presentation of risks, benefits, and alternate methods of care.There are limitations to our art of surgery. However with public education, prevention can be a powerful tool. Just as seat belts have minimized the number of mutilated faces that used to go through windshields of cars, forum posts with links to websites with techniques that are documented can sometimes help prevent some misadventures.
That is the power of my
Fat Flap Sculpture. By bringing the blood supply, fat has a much better chance of survival than of a small clump of fat that now needs to get its new blood supply from surrounding tissues. Whatever failure to keep alive results in firmer fat to dense scar or anything in between. When it survives, it remains soft and subtle like natural fat and can provide not just a filler effect, but the animation and feel of a natural tissue.
Yes, all deformity or beauty is in our heads. Accepting defects is a blessing, but society can be cruel. Living with a missing nose or ear from trauma can be devastating. Build that individual a functional new structure, and watch their soul soar! That is the true art of Plastic Surgery that attracted me to this form of sculpture decades ago.
Hope this helps,
Michael Bermant, MD
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