How Will I Look After 1000G Reduction?

Breast Reduction is a complicated procedure that is best done by those with the most training and experience. It is very difficult to determine the resultant cup size and shape based solely on the number of grams that are removed from your breast to best match your ideal breast image without an examination by a board certified plastic surgeon. Not just any board certified plastic surgeon, but one with many years of frequently performing breast reduction and lift surgeries, including different approaches, techniques and even fat transfer and implant choices if you are lacking superior breast fullness.This is because several measurements—not to mention breast characteristics such as density—are needed to determine how much and where to remove breast tissue to meet your goals. Without knowing your existing breast shape, dimensions, and the density of your breast tissue, it would be difficult to make this determination. For example, the same volume of breast tissue will weigh different amounts (measured in ounces or grams) in different people depending on its density. The existing base width of your breast and what you will ultimately want to look like will determine, in many cases, the maximal volume and weight that will need to be removed for the best result.Please click on the link below for more information!

Your plastic surgeon will remove the appropriate amount of tissue to give you a nice shape and preserve the volume you want. The final weight will be determined after that is done. With your height and weight, the removal of 1,000 Gm should still leave you with the volume you want, but don't forget, we do not have any photos of you. Regarding insurance coverage, as an example, Blue Shield of Minnesota would require the removal of 800 Gm of tissue based on your height and weight. The rationale for this, is that if sufficient weight is not removed, the symptoms that are prompting the medical necessity determination for breast reduction, breast, shoulder, neck pain, and others, will not be relieved.

Typically most insurance companies require a minimum of 500 gms per breast to be removed to trigger coverage. With the average cup ranging from 150-200 cc, it is probable that this will produce a 2-3 cup reduction in size. However, this is only an estimate

Breast surgery continues to be forced into an "analytical" box.  Breast surgery can not be reduced down to a formula.  First and foremost, if your breast reduction is being covered by insurance then the insurance company dictates the amount of tissue removed.  The breast can be reduced further if the plastic surgeon deems it safe and artistically believes the additional removal would be pleasing to compliment your body frame.  In that answer there is no mention of cup size.  You must trust your plastic surgeon's opinion and skill.

Dr. ES

For your frame, 1000gms sounds quite reasonable. You should have a nice dramatic result, yet maintain a large full breast like you are used to. 450 gms is one pound, so expect roughly 2 lbs per side. Final cup size cannot be guaranteed, as all bras fit differently.

Unfortunately, no one can give you a precise answer to your question.

It is however, very important to communicate your size goals with your surgeon.  In my practice, the use of photographs of “goal” pictures (and breasts that are too big or too small) is very helpful. I have found that the use of words such as “natural” or “C cup” or "fake looking" means different things to different people and therefore prove unhelpful.
Also, as you know, cup size varies depending on who makes the bra; therefore, discussing desired cup  size may also be inaccurate.
I have found the use of pictures very helpful in improving the chances of achieving the patient's goals as consistently as possible ( although no system is 100% accurate).

Best wishes.

It is hard to say in your case what that would look like.   I hav enot examined you or have seen photos. I do al ot of larger breast reductions in the 1000-2000 gms from each side.  In patients with DDD or larger this will often get them into a D-ish cup in most cases.

Is it a 100 grams per side or in total? If per side I think you will be a small D or even still a DD. If 500 per side do not waste your time NOT ENOUGH. Best of luck A photo would have been a great help!

A very full breast reduction, 1000 grams or more per breast, is not extreme by any measure. Afterwards you will still be fairly full, perhaps a D-cup to a DD. Through years experience with breast reduction it is unlikely to make someone too small, and many wish that they could have been even smaller. I think your plastic surgeon is right and you will be OK.
Best of luck,
peterejohnsonmd

Regarding: "How Will I Look After 1000G Reduction?
I am a black female..who is 5'8 210 lbs, my breast are about a 40 DDD-E-F(somewhere in that reange). I am scheduled to have a reduction of 1000 grams...how much of a decrease in cup sizes would you say this will be and do you think this is extreme...I am worried that my breast will be to small for my frame...my PS says it will be okay for my frame...in your honest opinion what do you think? P.S...I am looking to lose about 20 lbs before the surgery?"

Without examining you or even a good quality photograph to look at all comments must be conjectural and general in nature.

Cup sizes are NOT standardized measurements like time, weight or length. The bra industry is a Wild West where every bra manufacturer can term its cups whatever size it wants to. As a result, a C cup in one is not necessarily a C cup in another and this varies along the entire range of sizes. This makes a correlation between weight / volume removal (as in a Breast Reduction) or volume addition (as in Breast Augmentation) very hard to quantify, much less predict in a scientific, honest and ethical (no guessing) manner however hard you may want us to.

In your case, you have a BMI of 32 making you obese (your body surface area is 2.128 meter squared and your IDEAL body weight is 141 pounds making you 70 pounds overweight). Removing the 1 kilogram of breast tissue off each breast will greatly reduce them PROBABLY into the C range. However, as long as you want the insurance company to pay for your surgery, it will determine the weight to be removed from each breast because THEY are in charge as they decide what they will pay and not pay for. If you want LESS tissue to be removed and want to leave it to the Plastic surgeon's discretion on how much to remove you will have to forget about insurance and have a cosmetic Breast Reduction paid for by you out of your pocket.

You really need to have this discussion with your chosen Plastic surgeon BEFORE you make a decision.

Dr. Peter Aldea