Restoring The Feeling Of Masculinity Is Achievable With Male Breast Reduction



Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2009

by Dave Stringham
LookingYourBest.com

Like starting to shave, the lowering of one's voice, or developing an Adam's Apple, a flat and strong looking chest is seen as a sign of masculinity. It is humiliating to have a chest that looks even the slightest bit feminine. Many women seek breast augmentation because they say, "I look like a boy and just want to feel feminine." And though men never make the opposite statement - probably because the words are too hard to say - it is probably in the back of their minds. As shy as some flat-chested women are about men seeing their chest naked, they tend not to have the same level of shame or humiliation as do men with gynecomastia. It is very common that even men with the mildest forms of gynecomastia never want to take their shirt off, wear loose clothes over a tight undershirt, and spend time in front of a mirror pushing their chest back to make it look flatter.

In particular, men are much more hesitant to undergo male breast reduction, as well as any other plastic surgery procedure. Perhaps they still believe in stereotypes that have long since been abandoned about plastic surgery not really being for men. Or they remain in some degree of denial about their gynecomastia, privately hiding their embarrassment, but not wanting to look the problem squarely in the eye.

Men who never lost the extra bit of puffiness they had on their chest during puberty are often gynecomastia patients. Many of these men can't see the outline of their pecs even if they are fit and work out. Some men have taken steroids for weight lifting and these steroids can cause rapid growth with the breast tissues. There is usually a very firm marble or walnut they can feel in the case of weightlifting. Gynecomastia is suffered by many others as a side-effect of prescription medications or recreational drugs.

Gynecomastia has two methods for treating it: 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 fantastic when there was a small and well-demarcated and circumscribed gynecomastia mass under the areola. But when there was fat spread throughout the chest it didn't work well. Because fat is soft and easily removed through a liposuction instrument, liposuction is ideal for fat removal (much like a straw.) However, liposuction cannot remove firm and glandular gynecomastia issues; it needs to be excised.

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Dave Stringham, the President of LookingYourBest.com writes about cosmetic surgery in Los Angeles, California and plastic surgery procedures such as los angeles male breast reduction, breast augmentation, and face lit.
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