 You will get a detailed instruction from your surgeon on how to prepare for surgery. This information includes the detailed instructions on eating and drinking, smoking, and taking or no definite vitamins and medications.
If you smoke you should avoid smoking for at least one or two weeks before surgery and after the surgery during the process of healing, because influence of smoking effects negatively on the process of healing.
Where the Operation Will be Performed
Surgery for gynecomastia is usually performed as an outpatient procedure. But sometimes there are cases where other medical conditions present. So it may recommend an overnight hospital stay.
The surgery, as a rule, continues about an hour and a half to complete. But it can require a more time to perform other general procedures.
Type of Anesthesia
Correction of enlarged male breasts usually performing under general anesthesia, but there are some cases when the surgeon can use a local anesthesia with anodyne. During the operation you are awake, but very relaxed and numb to pain. If you breasts demand wider correction the operation will be performed under general anesthesia, which makes the patient to sleep during the whole operation. Your surgeon must explain you which option he will be using for you, and why this is the option of choice.
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