Breast Reduction Before & After Gallery

Breast Reduction

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What is a Breast Reduction?

Breast reduction surgery, also known as reduction mammaplasty, is intended to reduce the size of your breasts by removing excess breast tissue and skin. Overly large breasts often cause physical discomfort, including back, neck and shoulder pain. Breast reduction surgery relieves pain and discomfort and as such is typically requested due to the functional and medical problems excessively large breasts cause – and the surgery first and foremost addresses this. As a bonus, the breasts are lifted and reshaped, thus enhancing cosmesis.

Depending on the size and shape of your breasts, the amount of skin and tissue to be removed, quality of skin and positioning of the nipples, Dr Eddy Dona will recommend one of these methods.

Anchor Scar – The anchor shaped scar technique is the most common and involves an incision with the resultant scars extending around the areola, vertically down from the lower edge of the areola to the fold/crease of the breast and horizontally along the natural curve of the breast. After the excess skin, fat and breast tissue are removed, the nipple and areola are moved to a higher position and stitched to reshape the breast. This is ideal for most moderate to large reductions.

Lollipop scar – This technique does not include the scar running horizontally along the lower breast fold, but results in a vertical scar or “lollipop” type scar. This is ideal for most mild to moderate reductions.

Areolar only scar (Benelli Method) – Involves two circular incisions around the areola, one larger than the other. Skin and breast tissue are then removed between the two. This method results in one scar around the areola but can leave the breast looking flat. It also doesn’t allow for a significant “lift” of the breast tissue. This is most suitable for very minimal reductions and typically only performed for mild lifts.

In almost all breast reduction procedures, the nipples and areolas remain attached to their blood and nerve supply while they are repositioned. However, if the breasts are extremely large and the nipples and areolas are near waist level then they may have to be completely removed and repositioned. This will cause permanent loss of sensation in the nipple, and you will be unable to breastfeed.

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