la_angel

My best friend is considering breast reduction Los Angeles CA is where she lives (and where I live too!) The problem is there are so many plastic surgeons in the area and with many of their big budgets they spend on advertising themselves it can be hard to decipher who's the real deal and who's just average. Being that I've had cosmetic work done before myself I told her I would help her find a good doctor.

The concern my friend really has is about the scarring. From what I know about breast reduction surgery is it's a pretty brutal operation. They slash open the area under your breast with a very large incision, remove breast tissue, and then sew you back up.

Hopefully a few of you on the plastic surgery forum can help me with these questions:

(1) Have any of you had this operation in the Los Angeles or even greater Southern California area?
(2) Does anyone know if there are alternate methods which involve smaller incisions?

c2it

I don't need a breast reduction but if I did my main concern would be the technique the surgeon used because I would not want to have bad scarring. I know there are some doctors that make smaller incisions vs the sloppy doctors which make a honking big cut to remove the breast tissue. I woudn't be able to tell you who the is good for breast reduction in Los Angeles or anywhere else for that matter is but I would base it off of the incision method they use. When shopping around for surgeons ask them that and ask how big the cut will be, where it will be located and to provide before and after pictures of this procedure he has done on other women. That's your best way to go about it I think.

hwoodgrl

Have your Heard of Garth Fisher in Beverly Hills? He is known to be good I think for breasts in general. I know he does a lot of boob jobs but I don't know about reductions. I guess those are uncommon around here because everyone always wants them bigger and better!

But I also hear he is a total ego case. The guy has his ceilings painted like skies by the artist that did the Venetian. It is overkill if you ask me but I if that's what he wants to spend his money......

robyne00

I checked out Dr. Grover's site, and frankly there is a GREAT deal of scarring in many of the photos!!! I do not think a surgeon would post surgery photos considered an overall "success" immediately following surgery. He or she would wait an ample period of time to demonstrate the healing of the scars, and decreasing of swelling. I understand this surgeon is a media darling, but many of his patients' "after" photos would not coerce me to visit this gent. Caveat emptor!

la_angel

Sorry I forgot to followup on this post

My friend actually decided to wait for financial reasons so I guess there's not going to any decisions anytime soon.

About Garth Fischer I have heard the same things about him. I agree this Dr Grover looks a little sketchy and after seeing the other post on here about him doing every procedure I would have to question his skill and motives too.

I think as a general rule of thumb if you do breast reduction in Los Angeles, even though there are more plastic surgeons than you can count here, I think that a lot of them have distorted views of what looks natural and what doesn't.

robyne00

Well they are in L.A. ... lol!!! Distorted views? Never! Just kidding la_angel!

la_angel

LOL I know! When I'm old and gray I want to go to Kansas or somewhere neutral to get my lifts

robyne00

Come to NY ... I know someone great and you deserve it!

la_angel

I seriously will consider that! The good news is that I shouldn't need any lifts for a few years - hopefully!

MariaSan

Hello La Angel:

Just came across this post today. I had a reduction and lift done in Los Angeles in 2000. I'm happy to say that I am extremely happy with how my scars have healed throughout the past years. I only used vitamin E at a time when the doctor said I was allowed to... but I've never been consistent with it. I have no problem sending you before/after op photos... as well as current photos of the scars if you are interested.

I can disclose the surgeons information on that private message as well.

This may be too late for your friend, but let me know if I can help.