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Procedures Performed
  • Abdominoplasty
  • Breast Augmentation
  • Breast Lift
  • Breast Reduction
  • Liposuction
  • Face Lift
  • Neck Lift
  • Chemical Peel
  • Dermabrasion
  • Eyelid Surgery
  • Male Breast Reduction
  • Gynecomastia

 

Dr. Cruise serves the following areas:

  • Orange County,
  • Irvine,
  • Newport Beach,
  • San Diego,
  • Los Angeles,
  • Beverly Hills,
  • Southern California.

 

Breast Reconstruction

 

 

Are you a good candidate for breast reconstruction?

 

Most women, if they are reasonably healthy, are good candidates for at least implant breast reconstruction, because it requires less additional operating time to perform than reconstruction with your own tissue. If you are in poor health, your two choices are implant or nothing at all. If, however, you are in good health, you have another choice. At this point, the question is whether you are a good candidate for reconstruction with your own tissue

 

Dr. Cruise's training and experience allow the most natural appearing and feeling breasts to be obtained when your own tissues are used. This is not to say that implant reconstruction cannot provide a good result. The reality is that nothing feels more natural than your own tissue. Also, your own tissue will sag somewhat over time just as a normal breast does. Some patients have asked why, if implants used for augmentation provide very attractive breasts, they can't provide very attractive reconstructed breasts. The answer to this very good question is that, even on a woman with very small breasts, an implant used for augmentation still has some breast tissue to act as padding and to hide the implant. With a mastectomy, the point of the operation is to remove all the breast tissue to adequately treat the cancer. Therefore, an implant under a reconstructed breast has only skin and a muscle to cover it. There is no fat and no breast tissue.

 

Aside from having poor health, there are some other factors that may make breast reconstruction with your own tissue unwise. These include being markedly overweight, prior abdominal surgery, very little abdominal fat, diabetes, and smoking. All these must be discussed during your consultation with a plastic surgeon.