Losing a breast to cancer or a precancerous disease can be an emotionally traumatic experience. As Plastic Surgeons one of our most rewarding areas of reconstruction is that of the breast.
Breast reconstruction restores balance, beauty and harmony to the female form.
Often we have an opportunity to enhance and improve upon the opposite breast as well so although a woman has lost a breast to cancer, the reconstruction can be an improvement from the prior effects of aging, pregnancy and gravity on the breast. The breast represents nurturing and with a breast deformity this important aspect of the female is incomplete. We seek to first restore the breast mound through the use of several techniques depending upon the patient's preference, health status and medical history. We can create a breast mound through the use of a tissue expander placed under the chest wall tissues and expanded at intervals after surgery. The patient's own tissue can often be used to create a breast mound using tissue either from the abdomen or the back.