Single-Stage Suction-Assisted Lipectomy with Dermal Mastopexy: An Alternative Procedure in Repeated Reduction Mammaplasty with Questionable Nipple-Areola Complex Vascularity

I am writing to express my displeasure with the authors and reviewers of “Single-Stage Suction-Assisted Lipectomy with Dermal Mastopexy: An Alternative Procedure in Repeated Reduction Mammaplasty with Questionable Nipple-Areola Complex Vascularity.”1 This is not a new technique. The literature review was incomplete. I published this technique in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal in 2006, with photographs. I applaud them, however, for accurately implementing my published techniques for lipo-reduction. What is particularly troubling, however, is that the editorial staff appear to have signed off on publishing something and calling it “new,” without making any reference to a very similar article published in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal in 2006. I have presented my work with liposuction breast reduction at two meetings of the Lipoplasty Society of North America (in Dallas in 1996 and in San Francisco in 1997), with a poster exhibit at the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons meeting in New Orleans in 2000; multiple times at meetings of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in New York, Vancouver, and Boston; multiple teaching courses at the Aesthetic Society and the American-Brazilian Aesthetic meeting in Park City in 2019 featuring mastopexy technique; and the New England meeting in 2022 including mastopexy. It will also be presented at the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery meeting this September in Istanbul, Turkey. The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is the world’s leading professional body for board-certified aesthetic plastic surgery. I described this very technique for liposuction breast reduction with concurrent mastopexy in 2006 in both primary and secondary cases. Furthermore, I have performed over 1000 reductions with concurrent mastopexy while also managing to avoid compromised circulation. I began to offer mastopexy first, in 2002, to all patients undergoing liposuction breast reductions with me; overall, approximately 75% decide to have the mastopexy performed concurrently. Although the authors do not comment on scars, I have found they are improved compared with standard reductions, because the maximum tension during surgery rapidly dissipates; it does not increase. I have not needed any scar revisions. DISCLOSURE The author has no financial interest to declare in relation to the content of this communication. Lawrence Gray, MDAtlantic Plastic Surgery100 Griffin Road, Suite BPortsmouth, NH 03801[email protected]

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