Here are eight ways you can support patients going flat and flat advocacy today!
1. Apply to be listed(opens in new tab)
on our Flat Friendly Surgeons Directory. Connect with more patients going flat and showcase your flat closure expertise.
2. Order My Choice: AFC brochures for your clinical practice.(opens in new tab)
These brochures are available free of charge and support your patients in their decision-making process.
3. Update your practice website to include AFC.(opens in new tab)
This is an important part of presenting going flat as an equal option alongside breast reconstruction.
4. Submit before & after photos of your patients(opens in new tab)
to the AFC Surgical Photo Database at AestheticFlatClosure.com. Help us populate this database, which will be used for research as well as setting expectations.
5. Lobby within your professional associations for an improved standard of care for AFC,(opens in new tab)
especially better training for general surgery residents. Aesthetic flat closure should involve careful removal of all redundant lateral tissue, obliteration of the inframammary fold, and the production of smooth, symmetric incision closures (Morrison & Karp, 2022).
6. Join the NPOAS Advisory Council or the AFC Research & Training Working Group (AFC-WG).(opens in new tab)
The AFC-WG is a council of breast and plastic surgeons, researchers and patient advocates working to identify and advance a research and surgical training agenda to support the development of an evidence-based, optimal standard of care for aesthetic flat closure. Contact us with questions, comments or ideas!
7. Sign up for our newsletter(opens in new tab)
for flat advocacy news, updates & volunteering opportunities.
8. Donate to support our work.(opens in new tab)
As NPOAS is an all-volunteer organization, 100% of your donation funds our advocacy work.
