Best Candidates for Male Chest Reduction

Male Chest Reduction can enhance your appearance and your self-confidence, but it may not change your looks to match your ideal image.  The best candidates for chest reduction are of relatively normal weight and healthy, but have relatively well-localized areas of fat deposits.  Having firm, elastic skin will result in a better final contour.

Surgery may be discouraged for obese men, or for overweight men who have not attempted to correct the problem with exercise or weight loss.  Also, individuals who drink alcoholic beverages in excess or smoke marijuana are usually not considered good candidates for surgery.  These drugs, along with anabolic steroids, may cause gynecomastia.  Therefore, patients are first directed to stop the use of these drugs to see if the breast fullness will diminish before surgery is considered an option.

While this web site can give you some basic information about chest reduction, you may feel free to contact Dr. Bartell’s office for a free, no-obligation consultation to discuss the procedure in more detail, view many pre- and post-operative examples, and address your particular needs.