Recovery From Breast Reduction Surgery

Video Transcript

"In this clip, we'll talk about further recovery after breast reduction. At the visit, at about ten days to two weeks, the sutures or stitches will be removed. Generally, most plastic surgeons use a lot of sutures or stitches that are very fine and small, and run underneath the skin, so that they don't leave the marks, what you might sometimes have heard as "hatch marks" that go across an incision. Really, you should only see the line itself, and not other marks, generally. Anyway, once they're removed or they dissolve, various techniques are utilized to keep the scar healing as well as possible. In our office, we use tape, which is an occlusive type treatment, to keep the scar nice and flat and protected, protected from the sun, and of course, the patient will be showering at that point, and increasing their activities, pretty much, ad lib. They will use a supportive, soft bra, and avoid any type of an underwire type bra, for generally a few weeks until the incisions have healed completely, to avoid excessive pressure in areas where the incisions are still healing. The next step, is that we'll start using some scar treatments and those would be a topical treatments, such as Vitamin E, silicone, that would be utilized to help minimize the long-term effects of the scar."