Breast and Body
Dr. Rad performs a range of Breast and Body procedures including DIEP Flap Breast Surgery, Breast Surgery, Body Contouring:
DIEP Flap Breast Surgery: as a cancer survivor, you have persevered through difficult times, from cancer surgery to chemotherapy and radiation. Restoring your body back to whole, and looking better than how you started, is the “silver lining” of breast cancer care and Dr. Rad’s focus towards that goal is you. Dr. Rad is experienced in the full range of breast reconstructive surgeries, from implants to flap procedures including microvascular “perforator flap” techniques such as the DIEP flap, TUG flap SGAP “Love Handle” flap, and TDAP flap. As a member of the plastic surgery faculty at Johns Hopkins since 2009, Dr. Rad pioneered the most technically difficult operations such as the “Gluteal Artery Perforator” (GAP) flap, aka “Love Handle” flap for which he and his colleagues published the first clinical series. Dr. Rad is the only surgeon in the Washington DC and northern Virginia areas offering the SGAP “Love Handle” technique.
When it comes to breast cancer reconstruction the most advanced surgical approaches are not the only aspect of world class care. Patients’ comfort before and after surgery are of equal importance and Dr. Rad’s approach to recovery follows the most advanced “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery” (ERAS) protocols developed by anesthesiologists. Combined with his state-of-the-art surgical techniques Dr. Rad’s patients are able to return to their lives feeling whole again.
Breast Surgery: the surgical art of breast reshaping, volumizing and lifting in order to create beautiful, symmetric breasts that are proportional to the body. There are many approaches to achieve this, and they fall into categories of “breast lifts” and breast augmentation.
Body contouring: operations range from liposuction to tummy tuck to, in the context of massive weight loss, body lift procedures. Dr. Rad often combines procedures in order to achieve results safely.
“Plastic surgery is the craft of enhancing beauty without the evidence.”