Gynecomastia alert: Do’s and don’ts before male breast reduction surgery

Significant gynecomastia can be removed via surgical treatment that involves liposuction and gland incision. Here’s all you need to know about the male breast reduction surgery

Health | Hormonal imbalances sometimes develop female-like breasts in men. This condition is known as gynecomastia or commonly referred to as ‘man-boobs’ that is caused by the swelling of breast tissues in males. While regular exercise expanding several months will marginally reduce this swelling, in order to have a chiselled body, one needs to be patient to see that result naturally. However, if you want to see quick results, you can opt for gynecomastia male breast reduction surgery.

But will it be safe? Will it have a long-term health implication? Will there be any side effects? Does it have a 100 per cent success rate? Business Standard asked Prashant Yadav, a plastic and cosmetic surgeon at Dezire clinic, the procedural details about this surgery. Here are the answers:

1. What is gynecomastia? What are the problems that cause gynecomastia?

Gynecomastia or breast hypertrophy in men is a condition of having abnormal enlarged breasts like a woman. Gynecomastia is a jumbled derivation from Latin and Greek language: Gyneco – ’woman’ + Latinised form of Greek mazos – ‘breast’ which is a variant of mastos.

It more commonly occurs on both sides of the chest in 70 per cent of the cases.

There are two types of gynecomastia —True gynecomastia in which major component is enlarged glandular tissues and Pseudogynecomastia, where breasts develop due to deposition of fat in the breast area.

2. Reasons for developing gynecomastia:

Dr Prashant Yadav (M.S., M.Ch. Plastic Surgery) at Dezire Clinic Dr Prashant Yadav In the majority of the cases, there is no obvious reason found and this is known as idiopathic gynecomastia. But certain factors can increase the probability of gynecomastia. Due to increasing cases of obesity, increased use of anabolic steroids and environmental contamination with estrogen-like substances, the number of patients in India with gynecomastia are increasing.

It is usually caused by an increase in the ratio of estrogens (female hormone) to testosterones (male hormone). Estrogen, the “female” hormone, makes breast tissue grow, while testosterone, the “male” hormone, has inhibitory effects on the breast tissue (it stops estrogen from making breast tissue grow).

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