BREAST CANCER: THE TECHNIQUE OF RECONSTRUCTION
Your plastic surgeon will likely tell you of his/her successes, and there most certainly are some. We have known women who have comfortably gone to nude beaches after breast reconstruction. However, you need to remember that not everyone is so happy with the result, and once a reconstruction is done, it is hard to undo. Talk with other women about their choices. Try to see several reconstructed breasts. Take a little time to consider your choices.
The technique of reconstruction may involve a saline implant, an expandable saline implant, a flap of tissue (muscle, fat, skin) moved from the abdomen (TRAM flap) or from the back (latissimus dorsi flap), and not infrequently both a flap and an implant. To determine which choice you prefer, you should do two things: first, schedule an appointment with one or more plastic surgeons to discuss your options; second, find women who have had the different procedures you are considering and talk to them. Although your plastic surgeon will be very knowledgeable about the various procedures, unless she has undergone the surgery herself, she will not know what it feels like to live with the results of the surgery on and inside the body ever after.
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