Feeling Like New After Mastectomy

Almost all women who have a mastectomy lose sensation in their chest, many of them forever. Dr. Constance Chen, a New York City-based plastic and reconstructive microsurgeon who specializes in breast and body work, says it’s time for this to change. “Traditionally, the goal was to make someone look OK in clothes,” Chen says. “In other words, to create breast mounds so that a woman didn’t have to stuff her bra. But surgeons who do more advanced breast reconstruction want your breasts to be indistinguishable in appearance from normal breasts. In other words, you’re naked, and nobody knows that you’ve had a mastectomy and breast reconstruction. The next step is to make breasts that feel like breasts to the person who’s had the mastectomy.” Click HERE for the full article.