Patient Stories and Photo Gallery
 Gynecomastia |
Gynecomastia These before and after photos of gynecomastia surgery demonstrate a spectrum of results in a wide variety of male patients. As a group, these photos show the common variation of chest enlargement problems seen in men. Some of these men had their gynecomastia treated with excision, some with liposuction, and some with both. By looking at their body type and the type of treatment they chose, you should get some sense about what male chest reduction surgery might be able to accomplish. |
 Gynecomastia + Simultaneous Liposuction |
Gynecomastia + Simultaneous Liposuction Many men that are bothered by male chest enlargement also have considered improving the contours of the rest of their torso. The most common regions that men have treated together with chest reduction are their abdomens and love-handles. Having liposuction of these areas while treating gynecomastia can make a huge improvement in a man's physique. While men that have liposuction of their tummies are often overweight, you will see that many relatively thin men have liposuction of these areas to make a subtle but very nice improvement. View Gynecomastia + Simultaneous Liposuction Patient Photo Gallery >> |
 Swelling, Bruising & Recovery |
Swelling, Bruising & Recovery Understanding the recovery process is an important part of deciding whether one wants to proceed with surgery. While simple excision of gynecomastia alone does not usually cause much bruising or swelling, liposuction over the entire region of the chest most usually does cause some bruising. While this is usually all gone by about a week or ten days after surgery, it is something one should be prepared for, and these before and after photos taken early after gynecomastia surgery should help to show that. |
 Close-ups of Gynecomastia Scars |
Close-ups of Gynecomastia Scars Every man considering chest reduction surgery wants to know where the scars will be and what they will look like. Unfortunately, it is impossible to predict what an individual's scars will ultimately look like. But this gallery of pre and post photos of male chest reduction surgery were selected to show you a spectrum of scars, good and bad, in different locations. The final scar quality has much to do with a patient's own genetics, and even a little bit of hair around the scar can do a lot to conceal them. View Close-ups of Gynecomastia Scars Patient Photo Gallery >> |
 What Gynecomastia Looks Like |
What Gynecomastia Looks Like These graphic photos are not for the faint of heart. But if you want to see what gynecomastia tissue looks like, these intraoperative photographs will be interesting. They are of excised specimens of gynecomastia tissue as well as photographs of liposuction aspirates. It will help to demonstrate how it is that male chest fat is easily removed by liposuction, but that male glandular tissue must be excised. |
 Other Male Plastic Surgery |
Other Male Plastic Surgery Liposuction is currently the most common procedure among men. Male breast reduction and abdominoplasty are other procedures that can improve body contours. Many men improve their facial appearance through procedures such as blepharoplasty, facelift, neck contouring, rhinoplasty, or chin implant. |
Gynecomastia Surgery - Male Breast Reduction
It is undesirable because it makes men reluctant to take their shirt off. Some wear two shirts everyday just to conceal it. Even thin men who work out regularly at the gym and otherwise have put the effort into developing bodies that would look good in tight shirts and sweaters cannot do so. Gynecomastia can make men who are just a few pounds overweight look much heavier than they really are.
In the past, gynecomastia surgery was mostly done on teenage boys sent to plastic surgeons by their pediatrician. Weightlifters that developed gynecomastia from steroid or supplement use learned about surgical options from reading muscle magazines or from trainers at the gym.
But in the past few years, the treatment of gynecomastia has finally become mainstream. It is not just the weightlifters and teenagers with the really bad cases seeking male chest reduction; it is the men in their 20s and 30s with just enough extra tissue in their chest for them not to look as good as they should.
Unlike women who talk to one another about their breast augmentation or liposuction, men do not talk to one another about gynecomastia. They hide it under their clothes, and so even their best friends are often totally unaware. Once fixed with surgery, they go forward with their lives as if they never had it. But thanks to the Internet, men can now privately research words such as, "gynecomastia," "male breast reduction," "males breasts," "man boobs," "male chest reduction," etc., and learn that there is a very effective solution.
There are two methods for treating male chest enlargement: liposuction and excision. In the pre-liposuction era, the only thing to do was to cut out the tissue ("excision"), usually using a small incision around about half the diameter of the areola. This worked great when there was a small and well-demarcated and circumscribed gynecomastia mass under the areola. But it didn't work well when there was fat spread throughout the chest. Liposuction is ideal for the reduction of fat, because fat is soft and is easily removed through the liposuction instrument (much like a straw.) However, firm and glandular gynecomastia tissue cannot be removed by liposuction; it needs to be excised. If you are interested in seeing what this looks like, refer to the section of the Photo Gallery titled, "What Gynecomastia Looks Like."