Corrective Breast Surgery

00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.160 The thing is that most breast implants do not last forever. 00:00:07.190 --> 00:00:09.620 They were never intended to last forever. 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.280 Any woman who has had a mastectomy and breast reconstruction with an implant, 00:00:13.310 --> 00:00:17.340 over time, they're going to need to have revision breast reconstruction. 00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:19.360 One of the most advanced techniques that 00:00:19.380 --> 00:00:23.720 we can use is to remove the old breast implants and to replace it with natural 00:00:23.740 --> 00:00:28.200 tissue, utilizing a deep flap, or a DIEP flap, natural tissue reconstruction, and 00:00:28.230 --> 00:00:32.240 then give them an entire new reconstruction that will then last them 00:00:32.270 --> 00:00:35.420 forever, and feel more natural, and look more natural. 00:00:35.450 --> 00:00:37.720 Very often, these patients also have pain 00:00:37.750 --> 00:00:40.280 and discomfort that we can fix at the same time. 00:00:40.310 --> 00:00:42.060 A lot of women have had breast 00:00:42.090 --> 00:00:45.640 reconstruction in the past and are dissatisfied with their appearance. 00:00:45.670 --> 00:00:50.000 At the time of their reconstruction, they were going through cancer treatments. 00:00:50.030 --> 00:00:51.780 They might have had radiation. 00:00:51.810 --> 00:00:54.700 At that time, they felt that they had a good result. 00:00:54.730 --> 00:00:59.160 As time goes on, it changes, either because they have gotten older, they've 00:00:59.180 --> 00:01:03.640 gained weight, they've lost weight, they've had radiation therapy, they might 00:01:03.670 --> 00:01:08.320 have had more biopsies, and those patients can come to us, and we can fix the bad 00:01:08.350 --> 00:01:12.600 appearance, or the dissatisfaction that they have with newer techniques. 00:01:12.630 --> 00:01:17.000 The techniques that we are able to use for revision breast reconstruction or 00:01:17.030 --> 00:01:21.960 corrective breast reconstruction are very often the same exact newer advanced 00:01:21.990 --> 00:01:25.980 techniques that we now use for immediate breast reconstruction. 00:01:26.010 --> 00:01:28.380 There's two basic different ways of doing it. 00:01:28.410 --> 00:01:30.880 We can either put new breast implants in 00:01:30.910 --> 00:01:34.440 or we can transition someone to natural tissue reconstruction. 00:01:34.470 --> 00:01:37.000 Both of those are large operations. 00:01:37.030 --> 00:01:38.900 They might take a few hours. 00:01:38.930 --> 00:01:41.040 Sometimes it just means doing a small 00:01:41.070 --> 00:01:46.080 touch-up operation and doing some fat grafting, or a breast lift to improve the 00:01:46.110 --> 00:01:48.880 overall shape and symmetry between the breasts. 00:01:48.910 --> 00:01:52.800 Some of these surgeries can be very short outpatient procedures. 00:01:52.830 --> 00:01:57.600 Some of them can be redoing the entire thing from scratch with a longer recovery. 00:01:57.630 --> 00:01:59.440 Because we specialize in breast 00:01:59.470 --> 00:02:04.240 reconstruction, we're able to offer our patients all of the available options for 00:02:04.270 --> 00:02:07.560 revision, or correction of their previous breast surgery. 00:02:07.590 --> 00:02:11.320 That can include fat grafting, liposuction, breast lift, breast 00:02:11.350 --> 00:02:15.960 reduction, breast implant placement, removal of a breast implant, changing of a 00:02:15.990 --> 00:02:18.840 breast implant to natural tissue reconstruction. 00:02:18.870 --> 00:02:21.400 Unless somebody can offer you all of the 00:02:21.430 --> 00:02:25.160 techniques that are available for corrective breast surgery, you're not 00:02:25.160 --> 00:02:27.920 going to be able to figure out which one is best for you. 00:02:27.950 --> 00:02:30.060 That's why you need to come to someone 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.880 like our practice where we specialize in breast reconstruction.