What is Breast Reduction?
While the notion, 'more is better', holds true, for most people however too much of breast tissue can be a burden. This leads to social embarrassment and inability to wear body-hugging clothes. This may also lead to postural problems like shoulder ache and backache along with frequent infections, usually fungal, in the breast crease areas due to inability to maintain proper hygiene.
Breast reduction surgeries have become safer with better understanding of blood supply to the breast. Various surgical techniques are available depending on the amount of reduction desired.
Breast Reduction Procedure
There are several types of breast reduction surgeries. We make a choice depending on the amount of tissue to be removed. The scars resulting from the surgery are of two types. One is an inverted T scar with the transverse limb in the breast crease. The transverse limb is not visible in a sitting or a standing position as the breast falls over it. Half of the vertical limb also gets covered under the mound of the breast. Second is the vertical scar option. Another scar which is common to both the vertical pattern as well as inverted T pattern reductions is a periareolar scar, which is very well camouflaged at the areola and skin interphase.
Benefits Of Breast Reduction
After selecting one of the aforementioned approaches, the surgeon removes the excess breast tissue, ensuring blood and nerve supply of the remaining breast remains intact, and the breast wound is closed over a drain.