If you are looking to transition, you may be researching surgical options to flatten your chest. There are many types of transgender surgeries available that deal with chest reconstruction. One of the them is the keyhole mastectomy. This involves a specific type of incision and can only be performed on certain chest types. What is a keyhole mastectomy? A keyhole mastectomy surgery is a chest reconstruction procedure in which a small incision is made along the border of the areola (the small patch of circular pigmented skin around the nipple). Then, the surgeon excises the breast tissue through the incision area. This surgical procedure is named as such because the incision resembles the keyhole of an old-fashioned door. One of the main benefits of this procedure is that it only minimally reduces nipple sensation, or in some cases doesn’t reduce it at all. The surgery creates only slight scarring (a…