Description
Silvana first visited Dr. Lerman when she needed to have a breast implant replaced. Dr. Lerman suggested DIEP Flap reconstruction, which uses the patient's own natural tissue, rather than placing a new implant. Silvana says the results are better than she ever imagined, and she now regularly speaks to Dr. Lerman's prospective DIEP flap patients about her own positive experience.
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I am a patient of Dr.
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Oren Lerman.
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I came to him when I had to have
my implant replaced.
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We had a conversation about what my
options would be, and we opted to go a
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more radical route where we would
do a deep flap surgical procedure.
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In my first experience meeting Dr.
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Lerman, I was a little bit apprehensive
because I didn't know what to expect.
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But as soon as I met him, I felt
immediately comfortable with him and the
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conversation that we had about my
options for what I had come in for.
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The results is something that
I never would have imagined.
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It was almost like, why didn't I do this
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14 years ago when I was diagnosed
with breast cancer originally?
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Dr.
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Lerman has also recommended me to other
patients to talk to them, to let them know
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about my personal experience and to help
them along through their journey and to
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give them some advice about the direction
that they could take and not to be afraid.
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He is just so meticulous
and his experience.
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Just read his background.
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To me, that just spoke volumes.
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Also, his after care, I think
that's really important as well.
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You want to make sure that when you wake
up from that surgery that you're feeling
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good and confident about yourself, and you
want to make sure that the people who took
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care of you are truly going to be
there for you at a drop of a hat.
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He was there at every step of the way.
