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Resources for your specific situation:
Living Flat
Adjusting to life after going flat
Everything you need to know about living flat: how to find community support, fashion, body images, tattoos, and more.
Mastectomy
You’ve decided to go flat at your initial mastectomy surgery
Everything you need to know about going flat at your initial mastectomy, including finding a surgeon and questions to ask your surgeon.
Find a patient-recommended surgeon with a proven track record of flat closure for your mastectomy.
Order or print this out to take with you to your surgical consult. Includes questions for your surgeon.
What you need to know to prepare for your mastectomy with aesthetic flat closure
Everything you need to know about living flat: how to find community support, fashion, body images, tattoos, and more.
Revision Surgery
Improving your chest wall contour after your mastectomy
Everything you need to know about flat revision surgery, including how to find a surgeon and questions to ask your surgeon.
Find a patient-recommended surgeon with a proven track record of flat closure for your revision surgery.
Order or print this out to take with you to your surgical consult. Includes questions for your surgeon.
Everything you need to know about living flat: how to find community support, fashion, body images, tattoos, and more.
Explant
Removing your breast implants with aesthetic flat closure
Everything you need to know about going flat after explant, including how to find a surgeon, questions to ask your surgeon, and insurance coverage.
Find a patient-recommended surgeon with a proven track record of flat closure for your explant surgery.
Print this out to take with you to your surgical consult to ensure your explant surgeon can give you a good flat closure after explant.
Everything you need to know about living flat: how to find community support, fashion, body images, tattoos, and more.
Nicole Daruda’s explant advocacy nonprofit dedicated to protecting the interests of patients suffering from BIA-AII
Note: NPOAS is not affiliated with HBII.
Fierce, Flat, Forward is a Facebook support group for women at different points of their breast cancer journey who are either flat, going flat, or wanting to research/explore “living the FLAT life”- has a strong focus on explant.
Guide to Breast Implants & Your Health
“If you already have an autoimmune disease, breast implants could make your symptoms worse. If autoimmune disease runs in your family, you may be at increased risk of developing an autoimmune reaction to breast implants. “
The Goldilocks Mastectomy
You want specific surgery to minimize concavity at mastectomy or explant
Everything you need to know about this new option for minimizing concavity at mastectomy or explant.
Find a patient-recommended surgeon with a proven track record of flat closure for your mastectomy.
Order or print this out to take with you to your surgical consult. Includes questions for your surgeon.
What you need to know to prepare for your mastectomy with aesthetic flat closure
Everything you need to know about living flat: how to find community support, fashion, body images, tattoos, and more.
Flat Denial
Did you wake up to a “mess” instead of an aesthetic flat closure?
Flat denial is when a surgeon’s unilateral actions deny their patient a flat mastectomy result – either through negligence or intentional disregard. These results are egregiously poor, not minor defects.
Advice and support for victims of flat denial
A private Facebook support group for victims of flat denial
Founded and run by Kim Bowles, NPOAS Founder
What is revision?
Risks of revision
Finding a revision surgeon
Insurance coverage for revision
Further reading
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