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What are the advantages of the DIEP and SIEA flaps over breast reconstruction with tissue expanders and implants?

April 26, 2017advantages breast diep expanders flaps implants reconstruction siea tissue

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What are the advantages of the DIEP and SIEA flaps over breast reconstruction with tissue expanders and implants?

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Breast reconstruction performed with a patients own tissues results in a breast that is more natural in feel and appearance. The breast will grow, shrink and change like the rest of the body with natural aging and weight gain and loss.

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Breast reconstruction performed with a patient’s own tissues results in a breast that is more natural in feel and appearance. The breast will grow, shrink and change like the rest of the body with natural aging and weight gain and loss. Overall complication rates with DIEP and SIEA flap breast reconstructions also are much lower than with expanders and implants.