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Do I Have Symmastia? (photo)
I'm think I have symmastia and if so, I was wondering if wearing a thong bra will help and if losing weight could help aswell? I know it won't cure it but I'm not old enough to have surgery yet so I'm just looking for other ways to help make it better.
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Gabby12321
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Symmastia
I dont think this would be classified as symmastia. You appear to have large and centrally full breasts only
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Tips for improving symmastia in minors
Hello. You do seem to have some mild symmastia. The thong bra will not do much if anything to help improve this, but because breasts are largely composed of adipose tissue weight loss would be your best bet to improve this condition before you are old enough for surgery. When you are of age your options for surgical correction would include liposuction or a specialized form of mastopexy where the medial breast tissue would be removed surgically.
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Symmastia? #breastimplants
It looks to me like you have a tight cleavage not Symmastia. All cleavages are built differently. Usually Symmastia is pretty obvious on frontal exam. I would go see your surgeon for a full physical, but I also would not be worried.
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Do I Have Symmastia?
The posted photos demonstrate a very very minor form of symmastia if any. Yes weight loss could help.
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Symmastia
By definition, symmastia refers to a communication between the breasts at the sternum with separation on the skin and soft tissue from the bone. Most commonly it is caused by implant pockets communicating and requires surgery to repair it. If you do not have implants, your close breasts are a normal variant.
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Symmastia
In the first photo, the arms are pressing the breasts together, narrowing the space. In the second photo, you appear to have about 1 cm gap. Most women complain about having too large a space. At any rate, there is nothing abnormal about your breasts.
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Do you have symmastia
Symmastia just refers to breasts which run together in the middle of the chest and we feel you do have a small degree of this in the photos. It is not really abnormal, just a different shape, perhaps a more mature look than people like.There can be some breast tissue, though often it is fat between, and weight loss just might help. Also short of 'surgery' liposuction can thin the area between the breast.
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Symmastia
Symmastia occurs when breast implants communicate with each other because there are no attachments in the midline. A thong bra can help in cases where this happens due to implants. You appear to have naturally close spaced breasts. Weight loss may help.
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Symmastia
Hi there,
Have you had surgery already? Your left breast looks to have its medial (inner) border at the midline, and I wondered whether you've already got breast implants. Sorry to suggest it if you haven't, it might be the angle of the photo, it can be hard to tell.
If you've never had breast surgery, I would not think you have symmastia, just large breasts, but if you have had implant surgery in the past, I think it's possible you might indeed have...
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This is not synmastia
As you can see from my colleagues, you do not have synmastia. You simply have closely palced breasts. Weight loss or liposuction may help. Don't bother with the bra...it will do nothing for you.
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Symmastia?
Although your breasts are close set, this does not quite qualify as symmastia. The thong bra will not be productive. I personally think that weight loss would improve this concern.
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Do I Have Symmastia?
Many thanks for the question. My answer is no you don't have symmastia since I can still identify two breast sepertly. In symmastia the there is no connection of skin to your sternum .I can still see skin connection to sternum. However its very little that why you have this question. wish you good luck.
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Symmastia
The term symmastia is usually used to describe breast implants that meet in the midsternal area without a cleavage space. Assuming that you do not have implants, your breasts do meet at the midsternal area, but the second photo closeup shows some cleavage plane. Weight loss or liposuction may help if there is a significant fat content, rather than breast tissue component, to your breasts. Hope this helps.
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Symmastia?
Thanks for providing the photos. You have breasts that are very close together and forming narrow cleavage. This would not be classified as symmastia. Symmastia is formed the natural separation between two breasts disappears, usually from over dissection of breast pocket during augmentation or excessively large implants. A thong bra will not help in your situation. You may benefit from losing weight or lipocontouring.
Best Wishes,
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Symmastia?
I do not think that you have symmastia. Symmastia develops with implants that encroach and violate the midline.
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Symmastia
Symmastia is a term that refers to a unsatisfactory outcome after breast surgery when the pockets where the breast implants reside communicate with one another or come very close, creating a look where there are ill defined borders between the center part of the two breasts. Every person is different with respect to their breasts. Some women have breasts that are farther apart and some women have breasts that are quite close together. In your particular situation, if you...
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Salt Lake City Plastic Surgeon
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Treatment for symmastia
You certainly have breasts that encroach upon each other along the midline. This may fall under the definition of symmastia. A thong bra, however, will not help improve the issue for you. It is possible that weight loss could decrease the amount of cleavage crowding.
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Congenital Symmastia?
Thank you for the question and pictures.
Your breasts do come close to one another in the midline; I would not call it symmastia. The use of a “thong bra” will not improve the situation. Some weight loss may, although this is not predictable. Once your breasts have reached a stable state ( full maturity), if you still remain concerned, liposuction surgery of the cleavage area ( above the sternum) may provide some improvement.
I hope this helps.
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Do I Have Symmastia?
Symmastia is a term to define the (abnormal) communication of right and left breast tissue.
Most commonly the cause is implant surgery where the implant pockets are overdissected and the implants wind up touching one another.
Less common is the congenital variety where natural breast tissue from each side wind up touching each other. It looks like that might be the case here.
There are surgical procedures available, but no real non-operative treatment is known to be...
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Breasts are genetically close together
Hello,
Thank you for the question and the photos. Symmastia is a term usually reserved for breast augmentation complications when the breast implants are too close together and the tissue lifts off of the sternum. Your breasts are naturally large and close together. You may be able to improve the appearance with a little liposuction and some compression garment in the middle but it is inherently a difficult issue to address for naturally close together, non-breast...
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