12 days after gynecomastia surgery, crater or swelling? (photo)

Thank you for your question and photo. The answer depends on how the surgery is performed. The traditional approach is through a curvilinear incision on the bottom half of the areola. We have found that this incisions scars unpredictably and would definitely affect the tatto. Our approach is to...

Yes, muscle growth can sometimes help improve the appearance of an uneven chest after gynecomastia surgery, but it might not fully correct the unevenness. Here’s a bit more detail: 1. Muscle Development: Building up the chest muscles through strength training and exercises like bench presses, p...

Sometimes the pigment temporarily disappears and over time it returns to a normal color. I would give it 6 months to a year and if it does not, you can always consider tattoo pigment to blend it.

Did you see an actual plastic surgeon on this? The skin folds will really diminish with time. Most will go away completely. The fluid may be a seroma or a hematoma, which may benefit from drainage. Not really sure what you've got going on there and would need to examine you. With the necrosis of...

Scabs can take up to 5 weeks to come away. The reason you don't want to bathe is that until the scabs have come away the wounds are not fully healed, and you could get dirty bath water into the wounds, which could result in an infection.

Puffy nipples are due to breast tissue underneath the nipples which pushes it up and stretches the areolar skin.  Treatment by reducing the areola is treating the symptom-- not the cause.  You would be left -- in time -- with a scar completely around the areola.  It would stretch out the ar...