Description: Atlanta Plastic Surgery PC offers breast reconstruction in Atlanta, Alpharetta, and Cumming, GA for women who undergo a mastectomy in treatment of breast cancer.
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Candidates for breast reconstruction include women who have had a mastectomy for the treatment of breast cancer, or who will be undergoing a mastectomy in the future. The reconstruction procedure is commonly undergone immediately after the mastectomy and thus is appropriately named an immediate breast reconstruction. Alternatively, a woman may opt for breast reconstruction months or even years after mastectomy , especially if radiation of the chest is needed as part of the cancer treatment.
There are many different approaches for reconstructing a new breast mound, and so the specific techniques used can be tailored to the individual needs of the patient. Often, breast reconstruction is accomplished through the insertion of saline or silicone breast implants. Depending on the laxity of the patient’s skin and muscle, it may be possible to insert a breast implant between the layers of chest muscle and under the breast skin that is preserved during the breast cancer surgery, but where the remaini