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How Natural Would It Look After Having Surgery to Correct Tuberous Breasts?

I am thinking about getting that procedure, but I have a lot of doubts about the results. I would like to correct the shape, but not changing significantly the size. I would like others not to be able to notice that I had surgery. But I wonder if without clothes will the surgery always be obvious? Could it look natural to somebody who hasn't seen my breasts before the surgery?

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How Natural Would It Look After Having Surgery to Correct Tuberous Breasts

It is near impossible to give an answer worth hearing without at least looking at photos, and even that is not as good as a live consultation. The pros and cons of plastic surgery for aesthetic surgery must be balanced in such a way that the improvement attained overwhelms the negatives, including the scars. Improvement of tuberous breasts requires incisions, and there are no invisible incisions. Almost always there will be an incision around the areola, and often other... more

You can definitely get natural-looking results!

Could you kindly include photos of your current condition? This can greatly help with providing you a better response to your question. However, just from what you've said here, I can say that correcting tuberous breasts is quite common and tends to yield wonderful results, achieving a breast that is more rounded. In my experience, results look very natural as long as the right-sized/shape implant is selected and placed properly, along with the location of the incision. My most common... more

Jerome Edelstein, MD

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Toronto Plastic Surgeon

Natural breasts after correcting tuberous deformity

If you do not want to change the size of your breasts, then implants are not required. There is a new procedure called The Mini Ultimate Breast Lift to correct tuberous breasts. The only scars are at the areola-skin junction. The areola size is reduced, the breast tissue reshaped and lifted higher on the chest wall and moved medially to increase cleavage. This technique avoids ugly vertical scars that cannot be hidden. Best Wishes, Gary Horndeski, M.D. more

Implants for tuberous breast condition

The use of an implant to improve tuberous breasts would help to expand the base of the breast pyramid. Out of necessity the implant will cause your breasts to be larger. In order to give you more information you will need to submit photos or have a consultation with a plastic surgery experienced in dealing with this breast condition.

Tuberous breast

It is possible to correct tuberous breast either with fat grafting or breast implants. Fat grafting seems to be a better option for what you are expecting. However detail examination and discussion is important with your surgeon to understand the pros and cons.

Correct Tuberous Breasts and Natural Look?

Thank you for the question. Although it is not possible to give you precise advice without direct examination or viewing pictures, it is generally possible to achieve a nice change after correction of tuberous breasts. Much will depend on exactly where you are starting and how well the procedures performed. Based on your goals to look “natural”, a modest breast implant (if any) can be utilized. I would suggest in person consultation with well experienced... more

Breast Augmentation

Tuberous breasts tend to have a more narrow or "constructed" base. The incisions utilized are aimed at widening the base of the breast while often making the nipple areolar circle smaller and more proportional to the breast. An implant is often necessary to redrape the breast tissue to improve the base shape. As far as not being noticeable, that could be a challenge. These are difficult procedures and if incisions are required around the entire arealar circle, the... more

Tuberous breast correction

Tuberous breasts tend to be narrow at the base and are overly projecting for their size, and this phenomenon may occur on one or both sides. In its mildest form, the lower pole of the breast is underdeveloped or may even appear constricted - sometimes referred to as a 'constricted lower pole'. In severe cases the breast is conical in shape and is sometimes described by the patient as looking like a 'torpedo' or a 'Snoopy dog'. Regardless of the degree of tuberosity, it is possible to... more

Michael Law, MD

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Raleigh-Durham Plastic Surgeon

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Implants are not essential for the correction of tubular breasts.

Hi. The breasts are reshaped internally by releasing the tight lower part and making the areolas smaller and not sticking out. They look natural but you do have a circular scar around the nipples which fades but does not disappear.

Tuberous Breast can look better

Surgery for tuberous breast can create much more normal and attractive breasts. As the condition varies in each person and may include several aspects, such as deficiency in the vertical or horizontal diameter of the breast, most of the breast tissue bulging forward just behind a stretched areola, the breast curved and pointing to the side, and an obvious difference in size between the two breasts, the surgical approach must vary for each patient. Typically, an incision is used... more

More natural breasts after a small lift and implants for patients with tuberous breasts

Thank you for your inquiry. Most patients who seek treatment for tuberous breasts undergo breast augmentation with implants to expand the base of the breast and a periareolar or donut lift which leaves a scar around the edge of the areola. There are many different kinds of tuberous breasts; the more severe the condition, the harder it is to make them look natural. You will be bigger with an implant but it doesn't have to be an obvious difference. Good luck.

Surgery for tuberous breasts

It is difficult to give you an answer without examining you or reviewing your photos. In general, when any surgery is performed on our body, there will be a scar. Although most scars look better with time, depending on how you heal, the scar may be visible. As you may know, correcting a tuberous breast deformity is a challenging procedure. Depending on the degree of deformity, your breast may not be as "natural" or normal looking as you may want. Usually... more

How "Natural" Would It Look After Having Surgery to Correct Tuberous Breasts?

Yours is a commonly asked question BUT Tuberous Breasts come in a variety and full spectrum of deformity from a very mild version (which only a Plastic surgeon may notice) to a very constricted, root - like (ie Tuber) or "Snoopy" Dog snout deformity. Without providing photographs and without a chance at examining it is really impossible to say how attractive the operated result would look in YOU. The main goal of all procedures on CONSTRICTED breasts is the release of the constrictions... more

Correcting tuberous breasts

You are asking lot of questions which are good, but without an exam and a proper evaluation it is hard to comment on what can be done for you.

Steven Wallach, MD

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Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Natural correction of tuberous breasts

So-called "tuberous breasts" come in many variation. The end result is dependent on the specific procedures performed. There is no one surgery that is applied to all tuberous breasts. It is a combination of selective augmentation of volume, selection removal of skin, and redistribution of volume to produce a certain size and shape. This could involve various and customized combinations of reduction, augmentation, and mastopexy techniques. Depending on the severity and degree of asymmetry,... more

Robin T.W. Yuan, MD

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Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon

Tuberous Breasts

Without photos it is a tough answer to give relating to your specific result. What I can tell you is surgery for the tuberous breast can leave a patient with a very rewarding and life changing result. It really depends on the physical attributes you have with respect to how severe of a tuberous breast you have. They come in all shapes and sizes and some are more challenging than others. I think with a modest implant and a well experienced surgeon you can expect to have a wonderful result.... more

Reasonable Expectations In Tuberous Breast Surgery Outcomes

It is very difficult to answer your question without an examination. Tuberous breast deformity has a fairly large variation in how it effects the breast(s). Therefore, in order to correct your deformity, several different procedures which will leave you with scars on the breast(s), may be required. These scars are permanent and could potentially become highly visible. You should also be aware that it is not unusual that the more severe your tuberous breast deformity, the more likely that... more

Tuberous breast shape

You would be surprised how many patients have tuberous breast shapes, and they certainly can be modified and improved when performed with a small breast augmentation. I can't comment on how difficult your procedure would be without seeing photos, however There will always be scars resulting from any type of surgery, but a good result from surgery will allow you to forget about the scars Do your homework and select a Plastic Surgeon that you feel... more

Tuberous breast surgery

True tuberous breasts (there are many degerees of severity) are probably the toughest starting point for cosmetic breast surgery. Fixing them requires many possible maneuvers depending on what they look like. Lifts plus or minus implants are the core of the treatment. There will always be signs of surgery and they will never look like perfect breasts. The goal is that regardless of those, they still will look better than if they hadn't had anything done. more

Tubular Breast Surgery in Los Angeles

Correction of Tubular breast deformity is one of the most challenging breast surgeries. The result of breast augmentation for tubular breasts can be rather nice and natural looking, but this obviously depends on the extent of the tubular deformity. The most important thing that a woman with tubular deformity must understand that their is a good chance that they would need revision surgery, or secondary surgery after thier initial breast augmentation surgery.

How Natural Would It Look After Having Surgery to Correct Tuberous Breasts?

Since the tuberous deformity seen in breasts comes in so many variations, it would be impossible to answer this question about your specific case without good photos. I can tell you that I can't remember ever having a patient with that problem who was unsatisfied after the surgery. See a surgeon with lots of experience and get his opinion of which variation of procedures will work best in your case.

Yes you can have this corrected with natural fat

Using liposuctioned fat and reshaping techniques it is possible to reliably correct tuberous breasts with a natural look and no implants. this is a relatively new procedure performed by a limited number of surgeons. see the attached link for examples. best- dr delvecchio see video

You can have a very natural result

Tuberous breasts require special techniques to address the typical features of a narrow breast base with constriction and a widened areola with protrusion of tissue. With careful attention to correcting these features and use of an appropriate sized implant, a very pleasing result can be achieved to convert a deformity to a more normal looking breast. The issue of "natural" and size is something to discuss at length with your plastic surgeon at consultation.