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Richard P. Rand, MD answers: Can nipple surgery affect feeling or sensitivity?

Is nipple sensitivity ever affected by implant or nipple surgery? I'm considering silicone breast implants and a nipple reduction, but I'd rather not lose sensation in my breasts.


Richard P. Rand, MD
8 months ago
By Richard P. Rand, MD - Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Occasionally, a patient will have temporary loss of sensation from any kind of breast surgery, including breast augmentation.  The incidence of this numbness being permanent is rare but the possibility is something a patient must accept.  As far as nipple reduction surgery is concerned, I have never had a patient with numbness afterward.  The nerves are still present and uninjured in the nipple tissue left behind.

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