subject: Restore A Feeling Of Masculinity With Male Breast Reduction [print this page] 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 anyone to see them with their shirt off, wear loose clothes over a tight undershirt, and many 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. Others may have taken steroids for weight lifting, and these steroids can cause a rapid growth of the breast tissue. In the case of weight lifting, usually there is a very firm marble or walnut that they can feel. 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. Before there was liposuction, 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. Liposuction is ideal for the reduction of fat, because fat is soft and is easily removed through the liposuction instrument (much like a straw.) However, liposuction cannot remove firm and glandular gynecomastia issues; it needs to be excised.
