Hi, and welcome to another episode of the Trans 101 series today
I'm talking about top surgery more specifically the Keyhole method. Keyhole is geared more towards people who have had a smaller chest if you
would like information on top surgery for people who have large chest please look at the video
Previous to this one where I talked about double incision.
So top surgery is basically the masculinization of one's chest by removing the breast and the breast tissue in the other video
I talked about nipple grafting and removing the nipple and re-grafting onto your skin and some people lose sensation and all of that
So today what I'm talking about is Keyhole
And this is geared more towards people with smaller chests because you're not creating too large
Incisions under the breasts you're actually cutting around the nipple
removing the breast tissue around and removing some of the tissue so you're kind of
Closing it in on itself there is another name for this where another method that is very similar to this one called Peri Areola once
again
This is 100% for people who have smaller chests
Some people some surgeons have said that they can perform this type of surgery on people with larger Chest like a very large B
Or small C
I would look at pictures and result of surgeons who have done this surgery on people with larger breasts then like a
Or a very small b. And I'm saying this because it's a lot of tissue to remove and
It's very hard to kind of close in on itself and when I say close in on itself
I mean like you have a nipple and you have tissue around it
And it's raised because it's a breast so you cut around the nipple okay, and then you're going to remove all the tissue
That's around here
And you're going to cut some of the skin and then you're going to put the nipple back and then kind of close it
So you close the skin on itself which means that now there should not be any more breast tissue, and you should have a more
Flat masculine chest they're having some critique of this where the nipple placement isn't 100% where nipples should be on a male chest
Some say that it's too high some say it's too low and especially the size of the nipple some surgeons wont reshape
the nipple. Some surgeons will that's why it's very hard to talk about top surgery because there are so many different methods
So many different surgeons and even though they do the same type of method like Keyhole
They all have a different technique in how to do it
So make sure that you take a look at which surgeon that you want and make sure you take a look at insurance
I talked a little about about insurance in the previous video
So make sure that you take a look at that because
I don't wanna repeat myself in this one. So the positives is this surgery is that you don't have any scars, okay?
Or you have very minimal scars right beside the nipple
But usually they cut around the nipple so you don't even see any visible scars
And I know that a lot of people would love to have this surgery
I would have loved to have that surgery
But I was a very large C and there was no way in no way that
I was able to ever get that so I had to get double incision
I have learned to love my scars and love my body, so I have accepted this and this is fine
I'm so glad that I had the privilege to be able to have top surgery
So I think that we need to
Understand and
Really realize what type of bodies that we have in what type of surgery our bodies can handle for what results?
We want in the end
So what is the cost of surgery? Well the cheapest that I've ever seen this surgery was
$5000 and it can go all the way up to like
$11,000 usually ballpark is around $7,000 that's kind of like the middle ground that I have seen
For this surgery, so what's recovery like well?
this surgery is a lot less intense send a double incision because you're getting cut and and
we grafted and all this stuff is happening you have drains you have bandages around you with this surgery because
Everything kind of happened in one area. Yes
Yes, some people will have drains. Yes some people will have bandages that they keep on. But as with every surgery
They usually tell you you have about six weeks
but a lot of people who have this type of surgery usually are able to do things way before six weeks. like go back to
Work like at four weeks, but please remember all this information all right is the information
I have seen online that I've seen my friends experience so don't take all of my informations 100% correct
please look at the links in the description below if you have any any
Questions about anything all of those points will probably answer your questions anyway
Thank you so much for joining me more on the double incision method in the previous video, please take a look at that
I'll see you soon