Breast Reduction | 62 / 5.000 Kesiktaş Clinic, Breast Aesthetics, Facial Aesthetics, Maternity Aesthetics

Structurally, excessive breast growth may occur after breastfeeding or after weight gain.

Breast size per person; It can cause backache, shoulder pain, collapse in the shoulder, fungal infection and diaper rash under the breast, especially in summer, and deformity in the spine. Additionally, patients may have difficulty finding suitable clothing. People with large breasts also have sagging and deformed breasts. With breast reduction surgery, the breasts are brought to a size suitable for the patient's body, lifted and given a more shaped appearance. Since the patient is relieved of a great burden, his quality of life increases and his spine relaxes.

Before the surgery, a detailed interview and examination is made, blood tests, heart electrocardiography and lung x-ray are taken, and the approval of the anesthesiologist is obtained.

If there is breast cancer in the patient's family, mammography and breast ultrasound are performed for patients over the age of 35 and all patients over the age of forty.

The surgery is performed in a fully equipped hospital under general anesthesia (full sleep), and the surgery takes approximately 2-3 hours. The surgery is generally performed by making an inverted T-shaped incision. During the surgery, excess fat on the outer sides of the breasts is removed by liposuction, the excess fat is removed and the breast is lifted, reduced and made more shaped. The parts removed during surgery are sent to pathology for analysis.

The patient comes out of the surgery wearing a special bra, starts eating and drinking 4-6 hours after the surgery, the patient can use his arms enough to eat, drink and take care of himself on the same day, and is discharged the next day. It is recommended to use antibiotics and painkillers for about a week.

The patient can be washed two days after the discharge date, no dressing is done, and no stitches are removed because dissolvable stitches are used.

One week of absolute rest is recommended, one week later one can start working life and daily activities, one must wear a special bra for about 1 month.

Since the majority of the milk ducts and mammary glands are preserved in breast reduction surgery, the patient can later become pregnant and breastfeed her baby.