Gynecomastia is caused by an excess of glandular, or breast, tissue. Pseudogynecomastia is caused by an excess of fatty tissue. Both conditions can give the male chest a more feminine contour. Surgery for gynecomastia is best performed by a board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in gynecomastia surgery. Although recurrence of gynecomastia is not common after excision, it may occur in a few instances.<\/p>\n
In my practice, recurrence is very rare (less than 1% of my patients experience recurrence). The goal of gynecomastia surgery<\/a> is to remove as much glandular tissue as necessary to achieve the ideal contour but at the same time leaving enough glandular tissue to support the nipple-areola complex. This will prevent concavity of the areola.<\/p>\n Conditions that may imitate gynecomastia recurrences but are not related to glandular tissue may include the following:<\/p>\n 1. Initial edema swelling for the first few months after surgery<\/p>\n 2. Weight gain<\/p>\n 3. Scar tissue<\/p>\n Because young people naturally undergo very intense healing processes, they may experience excess production of fibrous tissue (scar). This usually becomes noticeable between 1-2 months after the procedure. If deemed to be scar, a series of kenalog injections may be attempted in combination with scar massage in order to break down the scar tissue that has formed.<\/p>\n Post-surgical use of anabolic steroids following partial removal of the glandular tissue may produce a recurrence of true gynecomastia. To minimize the chances of recurrence in bodybuilders it is essential to excise most of the sub-areola glandular tissue and the entire tail of the hypertrophied glandular tissues.<\/p>\n Finally, in cases of pseudogynecomastia where the excess tissue is predominantly fatty, moderate to significant weight gain may cause a recurrence of the breast fullness. This is not because the remaining fat cells expand.<\/p>\n To learn more about gynecomastia and to view before and after pictures<\/a> visit my website at drdadvandplasticsurgery.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gynecomastia is caused by an excess of glandular, or breast, tissue. Pseudogynecomastia is caused by an excess of fatty tissue. Both conditions can give the male chest a more feminine contour. Surgery for gynecomastia is best performed by a board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in gynecomastia surgery. Although recurrence of gynecomastia is not common after excision, it may occur in a few instances. In my ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gynecomastia"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}