BREAST REDUCTION
Breast reduction or reduction mammoplasty enhances your overall appearance by making your breasts more proportional to the rest of your body. Large, sagging breasts often interfere with normal physical activities. They can cause back pain, postural problems, deformities of the back and shoulders, skin rashes and breast pain. For these reasons, breast reduction generally is considered a reconstructive plastic surgery procedure. In addition to alleviating physical problems, it improves the shape of your breasts and nipple areas as well.

The operation is usually performed under general anaesthesia and may be performed on an outpatient basis or during a brief hospital stay. During the procedure, excess breast tissue and skin is removed, your nipples and areolas (the pigmented skin surrounding the nipple) are repositioned, and your remaining breast tissue is reshaped.

A commonly performed breast reduction technique uses incisions that encircle the areola and then extend vertically down the breast and horizontally along the crease underneath the breast. There are other breast reduction techniques that may eliminate the horizontal incision, the vertical incision, or both. The use of any particular pattern of incisions depends on individual patient factors and your surgeon’s recommendation. In some cases, lipoplasty alone, which leaves only small scars, may provide a sufficient amount of reduction.