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Is the Nipple Always Removed During Nipple Surgery?
Is the nipple always removed completely from the breast before being reattached? That is what I heard and it makes me apprehensive about the procedure.
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Eva S
in Seattle, WA
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Nipples are almost always left attached to the breast during surgery
In any surgery of the breast where the breast tissue is being arranged (breast reduction) or the nipple and areola is lifted to a higher position (mastopexy, breast lift), the nipple remains attached to a stalk of tissue known as a pedicle.
The pedicle contains blood vessels, nerves and ducts that travel from the breast itself to the nipple.
A pedicle ensures that the nipple remains alive during surgery, sensation remains intact, and that breastfeeding might be possible after surgery...
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Is nipple removed during surgery?
Are you asking about nipple surgery, such as nipple reduction, or breast surgery such as reduction or lift? For nipple reduction surgery, it is not removed. In cases of very large reductions, it is sometimes removed and replaced as a graft. This is usually not necessary. For breast lift operations it is not removed. Your plastic surgeon can advise you, if considering reduction, as to whether or not you would need a free nipple graft.
Hope this helps.
Tracy M. Pfeifer, MD, MS...
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Nipple most commonly stays attached
In most instances the nipple is left attached to the breast tissue and gland and the skin is moved around the nipple or the noipple is rearranged within the "skin envelope."
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The nipple is RARELY if ever removed during Breast Reduction surgery
The Nipple is NEVER removed during nipple surgery (such as correction of inverted nipples).
In older techniques of Breast Reduction or Lift, when the sagging nipples where located a long distance from the mid line chest notch, it was thought by some that their blood supply was poor and rather than risk losing them, as the breast was lifted, it would be better to re-attach them as "free" grafts. This is rarely done these days except in truly massive breasts reductions when the...
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The nipple is almost never removed in a lift or reduction
Only in exceptionally rare cases is a "free nipple graft" performed in a reduction or a lift. The nipple and areola almost always stay on the breast tissue as it is reduced, moved up and re-shaped. Not to worry!
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Nipple Removal
The nipple is seldom removed before any surgery, including breast lift, reduction and augmentation.
In a lift or a reduction the nipple is left intact to the underlying breast tissue and it is kept on this platform so that it can survive. The the surrounding skin and breast tissue is contoured and then the area is closed.
Only in very very large reductions is the nipple removed and then placed back on. Even this has become very pase' as there are better techniques to allow the nipple to...
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Nipples rarely removed during nipple surgery
Hello,
Rarely is the nipple completely removed from the breast in most plastic surgery. What kind of surgery were you exploring? An older technique of breast reduction did involve nipple removal and replacement, but it is rarely used these days.
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Nipple is rarely 'removed' during breast reduction or lift
The nipple/areolar complex is rarely 'removed' during breast reduction or lift. With current techniques for breast reduction and lift, the nipple areolar complex is kept attached to the underlying breast tissue to provide blood supply. The surrounding skin is removed and tailored. Rarely would a 'free' nipple graft be performed, perhaps in a very large, pendulous reduction or in a situation where the blood supply is compromised.
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Nipple removal
I assume that you are referring to breast reduction or breast lift surgery. In the majority of cases, the nipple and areola are still attached to a pedicle of tissue that maintains the blood supply to the nipple areola complex. In rare cases of extremely large and very low hanging breasts would a free nipple graft are a nipple be detached to place back on in a higher position on the chest.
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Nipple is rarely removed during nipple surgery
I believe what you are referring to is the nipple/areola complex together. They are rarely removed and reattached as a graft. Typically, that is done with patients who require very large breast reductions. The most common approach in a breast lift or reduction is to leave the nipple/areola complex attached to a segment of breast tissue - called a pedicle - so it can retain its blood and nerve supply. They are then repositioned into their new location which is higher up on the chest so you...
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The nipple is almost never removed
With modern breast lifts and reductions, the nipple is almost never removed.
Rather, it is repositioned, still attached to the tissues underneath it that supply it with blood supply and nerve supply.
Removing of the nipple has become more an emergency maneuver if blood supply becomes compromised during the surgery, occasionally in extreme breast reductions.
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