Gynaecomastia Reduction

The procedure takes approximately 2 hours and we undertake under local anaesthesia or general anaesthesia pending the size of the tissue we need to reduce or removed. All wound edges will be raised due to underlying deeper sutures. Such raised wound edges will flatten at about a month. This, long term, will give optimum scars.

All wounds we simply dress with skin coloured surgical tapes which you can shower with every day from day one. Most patients stay for a single night in hospital following the procedure. In cases where we remove considerable tissue, we may very well place drains  into the operative site. These are plastic tubes that remove any excess wound fluid. These we commonly remove the following day after the operation to facilitate the discharge from hospital. Rarely we need to use compression garments for the operative area.

We will discharge you with oral pain relief which on average you will only need for two days.

The tapes applied to the wounds will in time simply start to peel off after a few days and you can be trim these at home with ease.

We will review you at 7 days within your original hospital where we will remove the tapes. All sutures used will dissolve internally.

Mr Potter will review you very shortly after the procedure to assess your progress and he will undertake regular reviews until all has fully settled and healed.