Hi
I will have excision somwhere this year,my very concern are the after scars,how bad they will see.So i ask you guys who have done gyno surgery if you have digital cameras that can record movie clips,post some clips with niples and scars of the niples.i have saw pictures but in pic you cant really tell how obvious scars are.Thanks.
All wounds heal with a scar. Scars are part of the normal healing process. The question is the extent and nature of the scar. Scars can be soft and barely noticeable. They can be on the surface or through the plane of deeper dissection. Scars can also adhere layers together such that tissue movement is abnormal.
Check out this
bad adhesion scar movie that shows a large crater defect.
Here is another movie of another patients with a bad adhesion scar from liposuction alone.
Scars can be normal in color, lighter than normal, or darker than normal.
Scars are a function of the problem treated, surgical techniques, skill of your surgeon, swelling and bruising after surgery, after care, and how you heal. I prefer techniques that typically result in minimal scars, those that are as soft as possible and move well during animation.
This movie deals with the emotional scars of living with gynecomastia and the very early results after an internal lift mastopexy chest lift.
I take movies of all of my gynecomastia patients, I have just not had the time to put the typical movies up on the website.
The areola chest skin interface is a great place to hide a scar. Check out the many before after pictures of this Areola / Nipple Gallery
here,
here, and
here. These results are typical for my sculpture of my patients.
How tissues move is important. The human body is beautiful in animation. That is why I show pictures of the chest with arms up, down, and with muscles tight / relaxed in addition to the results from multiple views. Limited view demonstrations can pick the best angle to hide deformities and problems. Such analysis of the results as well as how tissues evolve, the possible need for drains, comfort level after surgery, are important factors in picking your doctor.
Hope this helps,
Michael Bermant, MD
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