Breast reduction
Breast reduction surgery can have different types of techniques that can be applied in each patient to be able to choose the technique that the specific patient requires, we must evaluate it since there are many conditions that make us choose one or another technique, basically there are 3 types of techniques for a breast reduction treatment.
Breast reduction surgery can have different types of techniques that can be applied in each patient to be able to choose the technique that the specific patient requires, we must evaluate it since there are many conditions that make us choose one or another technique, basically there are 3 types of techniques for a breast reduction treatment.
The techniques are:
Where you can make a reduction by making a scar only around the areola this is called the periarolar techniques
Other reductions where you can make scars that only have a periareolar and vertical component that is known as vertical
The largest breast reduction surgeries which is where they have to do a technique where scars or wounds The resulting are in the shape of an inverted T, that is, it has a perialolar component, a vertical component and a horizontal component at the level of the breast groove.
All these techniques give similar results if the patient is properly chosen to apply this technique, because the evaluation is what will tell us how we can handle this patient.
General anesthesia is used in the procedure, it is a procedure that can take 3 to 4 hours depending on the technique that is required to be performed, it can be performed on an outpatient basis, that is, the patient is operated on and after being in recovery for a few hours you can go home.
The tissue that is removed is always sent to pathology to be able to assess that there is no disease in the breast that requires a subsequent intervention by other specialists such as an oncologist or another type of treatment
What happens in teenagers or girls who have exaggeratedly big breasts?
If the mammary ipertrophy that is the term that is known the great breast the adolescent patient may be given that due to genetic circumstances In their development they have an exaggerated growth of the breasts, in these patients breast reduction is usually indicated after the age of 20, which is when the breast is expected to have completed but almost all of its growth.
However, there are circumstances where it is indicated to operate before, because the patient is still associated with excessive pain in the shoulders and in the Back in this case, surgery is indicated even before the age of 20, always in these patients who have not had pregnancies and who are young, if you do a breast reduction, the patient must be warned that there may be a subsequent growth of the breast as a result of that this breast has something that we call virginal hypertrophy, that is, it has not been exposed to the hormones of a pregnancy and therefore always has the ability to grow back after one does the breast reduction, this is important for the young patient to present. a virginal hypertrophy is exposed that the breast can grow again, after a breast reduction.