DIEP Flap Surgery

00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:08.280 The deep flap surgery or the EP flap 00:00:08.310 --> 00:00:13.220 surgery is 1 of the most advanced types of natural tissue breast reconstruction 00:00:13.250 --> 00:00:17.920 that we do for women at the time of mastectomy or for women who've had 00:00:17.950 --> 00:00:23.740 mastectomy in the past and reconstruction with implants or no reconstruction and now 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.500 want to change their reconstruction for natural tissue. 00:00:27.530 --> 00:00:29.500 The deep flap surgery 00:00:29.530 --> 00:00:34.000 involves transplanting your own tissue, your own skin and fat 00:00:34.030 --> 00:00:39.040 from your belly to reconstruct the breasts, and you end up with a natural 00:00:39.070 --> 00:00:43.080 looking breast that feels like a natural breast It looks like a natural breast. 00:00:43.080 --> 00:00:44.760 It moves like a natural breast, and most 00:00:44.790 --> 00:00:47.700 importantly, it lasts for the rest of your life. 00:00:47.730 --> 00:00:50.360 And on top of that, you get a nice flat 00:00:50.390 --> 00:00:53.700 belly, kind of like a tummy tuck at the same time. 00:00:53.730 --> 00:00:57.140 Many women are good candidates for deep lapse surgery. 00:00:57.170 --> 00:01:01.960 If they're undergoing mastectomy, removal of the breasts, or if they've had 00:01:01.990 --> 00:01:06.440 mastectomy in the past, with a breast implant reconstruction and now want to 00:01:06.470 --> 00:01:10.460 remove the breast implants and replace it with their own natural tissue. 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:12.240 The benefit of the deep flap surgery is 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:16.380 that not only do you get a natural looking breast reconstruction that lasts forever, 00:01:16.410 --> 00:01:19.180 but you also get a flat belly at the same time. 00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:23.020 Some patients are too thin to transplant tissue from their lower belly. 00:01:23.050 --> 00:01:28.060 And if those patients want to have natural tissue reconstruction, we can offer them 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:31.680 Other surgeries where we can transplant tissue from another part of their body, 00:01:31.710 --> 00:01:35.820 like their buttocks or their thigh, and those operations are called the pap flap, 00:01:35.850 --> 00:01:40.290 or the gap flap, the tug flap, all of those surgeries involve transplanting 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:44.930 natural tissue and reconstructing a breast your body's own tissue. 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:48.400 The alternative to using your own tissue is to use a breast implant. 00:01:48.430 --> 00:01:50.320 And we offer all of those surgeries 00:01:50.350 --> 00:01:52.900 because we specialize in breast reconstruction. 00:01:52.930 --> 00:01:54.360 Not very invasive surgery. 00:01:54.390 --> 00:01:57.290 We're not operating on your heart, your lungs, your organs. 00:01:57.320 --> 00:01:59.780 It's just the skin from your belly and your breasts. 00:01:59.810 --> 00:02:03.920 You'll be up and walking on the very first day after surgery, We'd like to keep you 00:02:03.950 --> 00:02:07.760 in the hospital for 1 or 2 or 3 nights and then send you home. 00:02:07.790 --> 00:02:11.880 The recovery is about 3 to 5 weeks after surgery. 00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:13.960 It doesn't mean that you're in bed for 3 weeks. 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:15.400 You're gonna be up and walking. 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:19.000 And by the time you come back to our office, 2 weeks later, we take out the 00:02:19.030 --> 00:02:23.360 surgical drains You're back to your normal routine after about 3 or 4 weeks.