Chest surgery, also known as top surgery, involves an area of the chest. This surgery mainly focuses on treating the conditions of the body's thorax area. The surgery helps to remove breast tissue for a more masculine appearance or enhance the breast size by inserting breast tissues for a more feminine appearance. Top surgery is quite a reconstructive surgery performed on the chest for those willing to alter their chest size, shape and overall appearance. A plastic surgeon generally does the surgery with specific training in transgender or gender affirmation surgeries.

The process can be done for people looking to achieve a more masculine or flat appearing chest and for people who want a more feminine sized and shaped chest. The female to top male surgery involves removing breast tissue and contouring the wardrobe to reflect a flat, masculine and male appearance. In the female to top male surgery, It consists of using saline or silicone implants which increase chest size and augment shape to achieve a more feminine appearance.

 Procedure

  1. First, anaesthesia is injected into the patient.

  2. Then a mastectomy will remove breast tissue present on the chest.

  3. Sometimes, excess skin will need to be removed also.

  4. Then the remaining tissue will be repositioned to create a masculine contour on the chest.

  5. At last, the nipple and areola tend to be smaller and lie slightly more lateral and enhanced in the male wardrobe.  

 

 Benefits

  1. It decreases body dissatisfaction and gender dysphoria in social interactions.

  2. This allows people to be recognized as male by others, and all facilities live following a male social role.

  3. It has a high satisfaction rate which helps to improve quality of life.

  4. It helps to gain confidence against individuals facing issues with dysphoria.