“10 Most Common Aesthetic Problems” of the Breasts

Breast surgeries carried out  for aesthetic purposes can be classified as  breast augmentation, reduction mammoplasty, mastopexy (breast lift)  elimination of asymmetry, breast reconstruction, nipple reconstruction, nipple correction, areola reduction, scar repair, breast shaping.

If there exists no significant breast and breasts are constructed with tissues transferred from adjacent areas such as back and abdomen, this procedure is called breast reconstruction. Augmentation mammoplasty means increasing breastsˊ volume by placing silicone prostheses (implants) while in reduction mammoplasty, the size of the breasts is reduced together with the removal of excess skin. If the focus of the intervention is sagging breasts, it is called mastopexy, and this sagging and looseness observed in breasts is called breast ptosis. In all aesthetic breast operations, the purpose is to obtain the ideal breast image in terms of shape, contour and size. The definition of the ideal breasts varies from person to person and from culture to culture and even from time to time throughout history. Having one or more of the following symptoms easily makes a person a candidate for corrective aesthetic breast operations.

1. Large / large or indistinct / small breasts in comparison to the body structure,
2. Sagging breasts,
3. Giant breasts causing neck back shoulder pain during adolescence,
4. Shapeless breasts, getting thinner towards the tip, like a funnel
5. Asymmetric breasts, (one ıf the breasts is bigger than the other)
6. Deformed breasts, upper pole is discharged deformed due to breastfeeding or weight loss,
7. Too big or too small (or buried) nipples
8. Breasts with tissue loss due to limited surgical procedures (biopsy, cyst drainage, etc.)
9. Tits wit scar, sear or sequel
10. Completely lost breasts due to breast cancer.