Breast Reduction

WHO IS THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR THE BREAST REDUCTION SURGERY ?

If you experience one (or more) of the following complaints, you may be a good candidate for surgery:

* Breast size out of proportion to your body
• Pain due to you breast size, usually involving your back, neck, and/or your shoulders
• Shoulder grooving from your brassiere straps
• Skin irritation beneath your breasts
• Restrictions in you activity due to your breast size
• Dissatisfaction & self-consciousness about your breast size
• Pain from dense, fibrous breast (even if not extremely large breasted)
• Breast size varies significantly from side to side

WILL I BE ABLE TO BREAST FEED AFTER COSMETIC BREAST SURGERY ?

Although not all women are able to breast feed even before a breast operation, cosmetic breast surgery by itself should not rule out the ability to breast feed at a later date. With the breast upliftment procedure, no incisions are made within the substance of the breast. However, with a breast reduction, incisions will naturally course across breast ducts. The ducts immediately beneath the nipples are left intact allowing a patient to breast feed if this becomes desirable in the future. The larger the reduction, the more breast tissue is excised and this would therefore further decrease the chances of breast feeding.

WILL I BE GIVEN GENERAL ANASTHESIA AND WHAT CONDITION IS NECESSARY AFTER MY OPERATION?

The breast reduction procedure is performed in hospital and in most cases a general anaesthetic is employed to insure your comfort and safety. Today, many breast reductions and uplifts can be performed with newer techniques which allow limited incisions. These techniques would be discussed at your consultation.
 

ARE THERE ANY COMPLICATIONS ?

Although the majority of patients have very satisfactory results, your decision to have this operation must be made with an awareness of the possible risks involved. Even though they are actually very rare, complications may occur following any surgical operation. It is not possible to advise you of every conceivable complication but some of the possible complications the occurance of which has more or less 1% frequency include infections, bleeding, alterations in sensation of the nipple/areolar area or elsewhere over the breast mound, skin loss (including from the nipple/areolar area) which may delay healing or even necessitate skin grafts or other subsequent surgical procedures. Occasionally the incisions pull apart along the folds beneath the breasts or around the areolae. Should this occur, the area will be treated with a moist dressing and will almost always heal without the necessity for revisional surgery. Such a wound separation, however, will prolong the healing process.