‘I’d really love to feel a hug’: NBC News’ Kristen Dahlgren reveals she will undergo surgery to try and regain feeling in her chest following double mastectomy and breast cancer battle

However, that changed when a friend introduced her to Dr. Constance Chen, a reconstructive plastic surgeon in New York City. Dr. Chen is one of a handful of surgeons who performs Resensation, a procedure that involves reconnecting nerves as part of natural tissue or ‘”flap” reconstruction. ‘She removes fat and tissue from another part of your body to create breasts, but when she does the microsurgery to connect blood supply, she also uses a nerve graft to reattach nerves in the chest,’ Dahlgren explained. ‘It’s similar to the grafts that have been used since 2007 in arms, legs, and hands.’ Click HERE for the full article.