Male Chest Lift New Jersey – Gynecomastia Correction

Parker Center in Paramus, New Jersey

Introduction
Treatment for Gynecomastia
Best Candidates
Surgery & Recovery
Additional Resources

Introduction: What is a Male Chest Lift?

Male chest lift is a procedure for men who need more than liposuction to achieve masculine chest contours. Men who have lost significant amounts of weight, or male patients with severe gynecomastia, may need this procedure to remove excess skin.

Male Chest Lift New Jersey – Treatment

This surgical procedure can be accomplished a number of ways, depending on the individual patient and the severity of the condition.

Relying on Skin Contraction

The skin of younger male patients has a tremendous capability to contract once the bulk of the underlying breast is reduced. For this reason, except in cases of dramatic skin excess, Dr. Parker usually reduces the volume of the breast first, without removing any skin, even in patients with relative skin excess.

Once the patient’s surgical result has stabilized, usually 6 months to 1 year post-operatively, the need for any skin removal can be reassessed. We often see that sufficient skin retraction has occurred, and the need for skin removal is no longer necessary, thus avoiding the creation of additional scarring. If skin removal is deemed necessary, it is usually less than would have been performed if it were done at the time of the original surgery. This “staged” approach to skin removal is also useful if Dr. Parker is uncertain about the need for skin removal when evaluating the patient initially.

16 years old—liposuction only

39 years old—liposuction only

62 years old—liposuction only

Removal of Excess Skin

In some patients, the skin excess is so significant that the need for some type of skin removal can be predicted with confidence by Dr. Parker when evaluating the patient at the initial consultation. When this is necessary, removal of excess skin is performed in a “graded” approach.

Patients with a moderate amount of skin excess have their excess skin removed using a circular periareolar incision. This leaves a scar around the areola only, which typically heals well because of the color differential between the darker areola and the lighter surrounding skin.

Male Chest Lift – Periareolar Mastopexy Incision Option

In patients with larger skin excess, it may be necessary to add a vertical component to the periareolar skin incision, using what is termed a circumvertical skin incision. The leaves a “lollipop” type scar on the breast. Normally, this scar fades over time to the color of the surrounding skin.

Male Chest Lift – Circumvertical Mastopexy Incision Option

Patients with even more skin need the incision extended outwardly along the inframammary crease. This allows removal of a substantial amount of skin and leaves a somewhat “extended lollipop” type scar on the breast: this is called an extended circumvertical skin incision.

Male Chest Lift – Extended Circumvertical Mastopexy Incision Option

All of these incisions are carefully closed by Dr. Parker with several layers of absorbable sutures to make the resultant scarring as unnoticeable as possible. Using today’s modern techniques, it’s would be very unusual to have to leave a horizontal scar, or “anchor” incision, on a male breast.

Periareolar breast lift – click images to enlarge

Extended lollipop lift – click images to enlarge

Male Chest Lift New Jersey can be combined with other body procedures such as liposuction, abdominoplasty, or facial rejuvenation procedures.

Ideal Candidates

The ideal candidates for the male chest lift procedure are:

Healthy, emotionally stable males of any age–we have operated on patients in their teens as well as those into their 60s
Men whose skin has good elasticity are ideal, but the male chest lift can correct gynecomastia even for patients with poor skin elasticity through periareolar or circumvertical incisions

Surgery & Recovery Details

Treatment is performed under either general anesthesia or intravenous sedation, monitored by our board certified anesthesiologists, in our fully certified surgical center
Periareolar mastopexy incisions, circumvertical mastopexy incisions, or extended circumvertical mastopexy incisions are made to allow the removal of fat and/or glandular tissue from the breast
The surgery takes one to two hours to perform
Patients may be discharged after about one hour of the procedure
Patients will wear a snug-fitting compression garment for 1 to 3 weeks
Removal of the garment and showering is permitted the day after surgery
Pain is minimal
Patients experience a mild to moderate amount of swelling and minimal amount of bruising
All sutures dissolve by themselves and do not need to be removed
Patients should be able to return to work and normal activities of daily living within several days
Light exercise can be started at one week and full exercise at two weeks