The impact of chest contouring aesthetics outcomes: a pilot eye tracking study

Abstract

Eye-tracking technology was used to assess aesthetic surgical outcomes in transgender and gender diverse patients who are assigned female at birth and who seek gender affirming chest surgery. Post-surgery, observers focused more on scars than on the nipple-areolar complex. Ratings for similarity to cis-male chests significantly increased. This series highlights the objective evaluation of visual perception and masculinity assessments using eye-tracking.

Keywords:

• Transgender
• gender diverse
• gender-affirming surgery
• top-surgery
• eye-tracking
• chest-surgery
• mastectomy

Ethical approval

Institutional review board approval was obtained for the study. Informed consent all patients provided informed consent. The research protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) by Mayo Clinic, number 17-009087, in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (June 1964) and subsequent amendments.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).