Surgery of the breast is performed to enhance or minimize the size or shape of a breast for cosmetic, medical or reconstructive reasons.

Breast Reduction
(Reduction Mammaplasty)
Large, pendulous breasts may cause a woman to potentially experience various medical problems caused by the excessive weight of the breast tissue. Medical problems commonly associated with this condition might include: skeletal deformities, back and neck pain, posture changes, skin irritations and breathing problems. Bra straps often leave indentations in the shoulder area. These issues may affect a woman or young girls's emotional state or confidence.

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Breast Augmentation
(Augmentation Mammaplasty)
Breast augmentation is a very popular procedure for women and among the most commonly performed cosmetic surgery procedures.

The use of saline filled implants to enhance the fullness of the female breast shape and form is accomplished through a small incision in the fold or natural crease of the breast. The surgery requires a saline-filled implant inserted under the crease in the breast, around the nipple or through the armpit. The implant can be placed under the breast tissue or beneath the chest wall muscle. After surgery, breasts will appear "fuller" and more shapely in contour. Selection of size and shape are discussed throughout the consultation process and subsequently through the planning stages. Incision scars will fade or disappear over time. Our goal is to provide an enhanced breast with true natural form. It has been and remains a major emphasis of this practice.

Breast Lift
(Mastopexy)
Over time, the effects of gravity along with the loss of the skin's natural elasticity begin to have an effect on the appearance of a woman's breasts. These factors, combined with pregnancies, nursing or weight loss, will often cause the breasts to lose their youthful shape and firmness.

A breast lift, or mastopexy, is a surgical procedure to raise and reshape the breast. The procedure can also reduce the size of the areola (the darker skin surrounding the nipple). Saline filled breast implants inserted in conjunction with a mastopexy procedure can increase both firmness and size.

Breast Symmetry
Is a term used to describe treatment for breast asymmetry. Difference in size, shape, or nipple position through various techniques is corrected depending on a patient's particular needs.

Breast Reconstruction
Restores or establishes the appearance of breasts that have been surgically removed or altered because of cancer or disease. Breast reconstruction can help a woman’s breasts look balanced while wearing a bra, permanently regain breast contour, and give the convenience of not needing an external prosthesis. 

The approach to breast surgery involves every to meet the patient's individual needs inthree stages. 1) Initial use of an expander or implant to stretch the tissue eventually used to cover the implant. 2) Removal and replacement of the implant to provide enhanced breast definition. 3) Reconstruction of nipple and areolar complex when appropriate.

Our 10 years of experience at Hackensack University
Medical Center has resulted in a successful, staged
sequence that has provided reconstruction to men and women. The majority of reconstruction inthis practice is done with the initial use of an expander or implant that stretches the tissues that will eventuallybe used to cover the implant. A second stage of removing this implant is then used to provide further definition to the breast and exchange the first implant for the final size and shape. A third stage is used to reconstruct the nipple areolar complex in those patients who require this.

All phases are accomplished under anesthesia and can, in most cases, be performed as an out-patient procedure.

We have included some post-operative demonstrations of implants used to correct total or near total loss of breasts due to cancer.

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