Breakthrough Procedure For Mastectomy Patients Gives Them Back Their Natural Breasts & Erases Scars Even Decades Later

When breast cancer survivor Staria Peterson had a double mastectomy 30 years ago, she gave up what many women take for granted. "I couldn't look at my ...

Breakthrough Procedure For Mastectomy Patients Gives Them Back Their Natural Breasts & Erases Scars Even Decades Later

When breast cancer survivor Staria Peterson had a double mastectomy 30 years ago, she gave up what many women take for granted. "I couldn't look at my body. My chest was mutilated. I didn't want my husband to see or touch me.”
A single mastectomy also saved Shannon Smith's life but cost her her marriage. "My husband couldn't deal with it and that shook my confidence. I gave up dating after the divorce and on intimacy."
Staria could have had breast reconstructive surgery but didn't want implants.
"I don't like how they look or feel and the risks scare me."
Fast forward, 30 years. Staria heard about a new procedure that could give her back natural breasts and erase her scars. "It was too good to be true but I had nothing to lose.”

Developed by board certified, Miami plastic surgeon Dr. Roger Khouri, the procedure requires time and preparation. “Patients must wear a bra-like suction device at bedtime for several weeks. It uses mild suction to expand the skin and space under the chest,” he explains.
Staria says, "You feel slight suction and after awhile not even that."
Next, fat is liposuctioned from another part of the body and re-injected into the breasts, giving them a natural feel, look and normal sensation.
Staria says, "You can not tell I wasn't born with these breasts. Now I love looking at my body. So does my husband," she laughs.
Dr. Khouri says, "It's every mastectomy patients dream to have her own natural breasts back and we can give them that."
So far, more than 50 women have had the procedure by Dr. Khouri with no complications.

There was concern fat injections would make it difficult to detect breast tumors but studies prove it's not the case. Dr. Khouri recently presented five years of follow up research on his patients at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons proving it's safe, effective and long lasting.

Shannon says, "It's the best decision I've made in my life. I'm getting ready to date again and am confident intimacy will be part of my life again.”
The procedure is also used to balance uneven breasts, lift them or increase size.
Three generations of women in Staria’s family had it done for different reasons.
Staria, to recreate breasts. Her daughter, to boost sagging breasts after childbirth. And granddaughter, whose breasts were small and uneven.
"We’re all thrilled,” says Staria.
Dr. Khouri will present more data, plus via live teleconference, teach other doctors how to do the procedure at a conference February 14 at South Miami Hospital.

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