There are different types of plastic surgery depending on which cancer it is, such as endoscopic and flap surgery. Harry Salinas, Plastic Surgeon at Miami Cancer Institute, describes endoscopic surgery as a procedure assisted by cameras to do things through small ports, more like laparoscopic surgery. He also says with flap surgery he can move…...

Dr. Ricardo Castrellon, Director of South Miami Hospital's Burn Center, says now with all the Marvel movies, men want to look muscular and like superheroes. He points out men want to enhance the chest and make sure they have well-defined pectoral muscles, and about the expectations he highlights doctors can tell the patients there will…...

Improving women self-esteem and body image, partially erasing physical reminders and requiring additional surgery to correct problems are some of the benefits of breast reconstruction. Dr. Miguel Angel Medina, Director of Microsurgery with Miami Cancer Institute, says everyone has different tolerances for asymmetries and for little things, but he says they work through all…...

Dr. Miguel Angel Medina, Director of Microsurgery with Miami Cancer Institute, explains with a digital imaging how they can save the nipple in breast reconstruction. in the past, surgeons save only the skin. Nowadays, they start saving both skin and nipples, the specialist says...

Dr. Daniel Calva, Plastic Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, says after a mastectomy or a lumpectomy they are dealing with more scar tissue and more radiation induced. "Radiation can induce a fibrotic reaction of the tissues; there are skin changes with hyperpigmentation, and so we can reconstruct that breast using this technique with fat…...

Dr. L. Raúl Arroyo, Breast Surgeon with Bethesda Hospital, Baptist Health, says they are different types of mastectomy: one is the modified radical mastectomy, which consists of removing the breast and the skin and the chest remains flat. Then, there is the evolution of that to a skin-sparing mastectomy, where the nipple and areola are…...

Dr. Xiaoti Xu, Plastic Surgeon, Mia Aesthetics with West Kendall Baptist Hospital, says breast reconstruction is about rebuilding the breast after suffering from cancer and trying to give them what they had before as possible. He also explains a breast augmentation is purely cosmetic surgery, and it is to enhance the way you look, which…...

There are two types of breast reconstruction: autologous, meaning tissue from part of the body (back muscle, lower abdominal fat or gluteal fat), and using implants, says Dr. Xiaoti Xu, Plastic Surgeon with West Kendall Baptist Hospital. Some women could need implants because they can’t have reconstruction because of anatomic or medical issues, the specialist…...