BREAST REDUCTION
Breast reduction, also known as reduction mammoplasty, is a procedure to remove excess breast fat, glandular tissue and skin to achieve a breast size in proportion with your body and to alleviate the discomfort associated with overly large breasts. Breast Reduction will also require the patient to understand, that there will be scars around the nipple accompanied by a vertical scar running down both the mammary crease. An elastic bandage over a gauze dressing must be worn after breast surgery.
INVASIVENESS
- Anchor type or inverted T reduction – is the most common type of breast reduction, resulting in an anchor-shaped scar starting around the areola, going down vertically and then horizontally across your natural breast crease.
- Vertical pattern breast reduction – results in a circular scar around the areola, and a vertical scar directed downwards. This technique has the advantage of leaving no scarring under the breast and a lower chance of wound complications. However, this technique may leave a small fold of skin, initially, at the lower end of the vertical scar.
- reduction – only results in a circular scar around the areola. This technique is only suitable when removing a small amount of tissue.