Why Choose a Female Surgeon for Your Surgery

Intimate & Breast Surgery · Trust

There’s a question many women ask themselves quietly before booking a consultation for breast or intimate surgery: will I feel comfortable telling a man about this? It isn’t a frivolous question, nor an unfair one to anyone. It’s a question about trust, and trust is the foundation of any surgery. In this article, Dr. Yagües explains why more and more patients are choosing a female plastic surgeon for procedures that touch the most intimate parts of their body, and why that matters for the outcome.

A profession where women’s bodies have, for the most part, been defined by men

Plastic surgery has been, for decades, a largely male-dominated specialty. That has had a consequence rarely talked about: the ideal of a “beautiful breast,” an “operated body,” or “normal-looking labia” that has reached consultation rooms, magazines and social media was drawn, in large part, by male surgeons. This isn’t a criticism of their technical skill, which is considerable. It’s simply an observation: when the person deciding what looks good doesn’t inhabit that body, the result can end up far from what the woman actually wanted.

What changes when the surgeon is a woman

The conversation

Talking about a nipple you don’t like, labia that bother you during exercise, or a breast that changed after breastfeeding is easier when the person listening knows that body from the inside. There’s no need to explain the obvious or justify the discomfort. Our patients say it often in their reviews: “the fact that she was a woman gave me the confidence to take the step.”

The examination

A breast surgery or labiaplasty consultation includes a detailed physical examination, with clinical photographs. For many women, having that moment led by a woman, in an environment of women (our assistants and coordinator are women too), turns an uncomfortable moment into something natural.

The aesthetic judgement

This, perhaps, is the most important difference. Naturalness, proportion, how the breasts look in a dress or a bikini, how the intimate area feels when sitting, cycling, or during intimacy: these are the details a female surgeon evaluates with the same eye her patient will use in the mirror afterwards. The goal isn’t a “catalogue” breast, but the one that fits that body and that life.

Recovery

Knowing which bra to wear, how to sleep, when to return to exercise or intimacy, what’s normal and what isn’t: the doctor answers those questions with the combined experience of physician and woman. And with a direct WhatsApp line for questions in the first few days.

What about technique?

Choosing a female surgeon isn’t choosing empathy instead of competence: it’s having both. Dr. Yagües is a specialist in plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, operates at Hospital Quirónsalud Málaga, which has a full ICU and hospital facilities, and works with individualised planning and a written quote. The human warmth her patients highlight goes hand in hand with surgical rigour; one without the other isn’t enough.

Where it shows the most

In labiaplasty, where intimacy is everything and discretion is part of the treatment itself. In the correction of tuberous breasts, which many women have lived with since adolescence without knowing it has a name and a solution. In breast lift and breast reduction after pregnancy and breastfeeding. And in the mommy makeover, which isn’t about “going back to how you were,” but about feeling good in the body you have now.

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