Clinical Resource: Breast Reconstruction

One of the services that I provide is breast reconstruction and so where the plastic surgeon fits in, is after the oncologists and the surgical oncologists have managed the cancer the next step is to achieving wholeness again and that’s where a plastic surgeon has a few different tools available whether they’re breast implants or the patient’s own tissue to help reconstruct the breast. Breast reconstruction is a journey for patients

so they start with getting their cancer treated and then for us plastic surgeons, we get to work with them to get their body to what they were before to feel happy again with how they look. The recovery time kind of depends on the surgery that we do often times say after mastectomy a patient will stay overnight and then we’ll discharge them the next day and then I will see them again the following week to see how they’re recovering.