I'm 17 and I'm completely flat chested. Do breast enhancement pills work?

Unfortunately, there are no breast enhancement pills that I know of that work to increase your breast size. Surgery is often the only solution.  Since you are 17, if you are contemplating your options you should probably wait until you are 18 or seek consultation with your parents' permission.

The possibility is very enticing to women like you who are unhappy with the size of their breasts. As a result, marketing is easy. Breasts change in large response to hormones, which is why pregnancy causes breasts to get larger.  By the same principle, giving someone steroids with progesterone can lead to increased breast volume. Unfortunately, it can also lead to a host of other bad things.  If a pill is likely to work, it is likely to do so via chemicals with a bunch of other effects on your still developing and changing body.  I do not think you will find many physicians who would support such a move. I understand your predicament and feel for you.  It is not easy but I would urge against this seemingly easy solution.Best,Dr. Pyle

Thank you for the question and your kind words.Given that these products are not fully studied and/or regulated I would not recommend them (even if  they were potentially effective).Best wishes.

I agree with the responses, particularly Dr. Wallach. There is no current non-surgical treatment for breast enlargement that is either effective or proven safe. By age 18 you can sign your own consent for a cosmetic procedure and it is reasonably certain that your breasts are fully grown. I would also avoid fat grafting and so-called stem cell injections at this time as it is far from proven that these techniques have no influence on your risk of getting breast cancer or affecting detection of breast cancer. Work on this form of breast enlargement is best done in patients with reconstructed breasts after breast cancer has already happened.