Do I Have Tuberous Breasts? How Can they be Corrected? (photo)

Do i have tuberous breasts and if so how can they be corrected.

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Do I Have Tuberous Breasts? How Can they be Corrected?

Yes, you do have tuberous breasts, which may present in a variety of ways but usually includes a lower, larger areola, a higher tighter crease, a narrow-based breast with a short distance between areola and crease and a wide distance between the breasts, and sometimes a protruding or bulgy areola. The best treatment would be breast augmentation, and special techniques are used to reshape the breast including lowering your high inframammary crease so that there is an adequate distance from... more

Tuberous breasts

Well - there are various degrees of tuberous breasts, from mild to severe. Yours does appear to be a little bit tuberous. This can be nicely improved with an implant together with a periareolar breast lift. Although you have slightly different volumes, my experience with using slightly different implant sizes (more on your smaller side) has been quite positive for mild asymmetries. All the best!

Tuberous breasts

Yes, you do have a form of tuberous breasts. My personal approach to this is to use a periareolar mastopexy, and a saline implant under the muscle that can be expanded and adjusted for several months after surgery. That way, the shape is better, the areolar size is controlled, and the lower poles can be stretched and the size determined with your input.

Do I Have Tuberous Breasts? How Can they be Corrected?

It appears you do and I usually treat this with a combination of implants and surgical treatment of the breast tissue. I usually prefer to reduce the volume of the larger breast and then use similar size implants to achieve symmetry. I have found that when I try to just make up the size difference with implants, they just seem too different...

Do I Have Tuberous Breasts?

Thank you for the question. Yes, your breast to demonstrate some of the characteristics seen with tuberous (constricted) breast. For “minor” tuberous breasts correction options very. Sometimes it is possible to use breast implants only without an incision around the areola; patients potentially will contain to have a “puffy” areola appearance.In other cases of “minor” tuberous breast anomaly, breast augmentation and... more

Tubular breasts

Your posted photo shows some tuberous breast qualities. More importantly the breasts are quite asymmetric with the right larger than the left, the overall shape of the 2 breasts is different and the nipples are not at symmetric points. Just putting in 2 breast implants will not correct these asymmetries and may make them more visible. You will need some surgical manipulation of the breasts at the time of augmentation in order to achieve a more symmetric result. I hope you realize that... more

The Preferred Way To Treat Tuberous Breasts

...is with fat transplantation using your own natural fat. It is simply the best way to shape the breast and to release constrictions. See before and after examples of tuberous and constricted breasts at our site: Dan Del Vecchio see video

Maybe tuberous, an augmentation will help

The tuberous breast has a constricted skin envelope and tight fold, and the skin constriction extends to the nipple causing the nipple to mushroom forward or herniate. You are not quite there but close. A breast augmentation will expand the breast envelope and improve your look greatly.

Correcting Tuberous Breasts

The tubular breast is generally marked by these three main characteristics: a small breast base perimeter (constricted breast base) - a small breast can have a constricted base without being a tubular breast a large areola in relation to the amount of breast tissue - in some cases it can appear as if the entire amount of breast tissue is behind the areola (nipple) the breast tissue tends to hang over the constricted base - so you may have a breast that hangs even though... more

Tuberous breasts

Based on the photo submitted, I would say that you have narrow-based breasts and large nipple-areolar complexes. However, there is no evidence of protrusion or "herniation" of the breast tissue trough the areolar. So, I would say you have borderline tuberous breasts. You can get very good correction with breast augmentation alone. I recommend a consultation with a board-certified plastic surgeon experienced in this type of surgery.