I’m 24 and I noticed when I was 16 that there was something not quite right about the shape of my breasts .I started puberty early but I never developed breasts until later, when I did they were higher than most of my friends and they were more triangular…. I could never bring myself to wear anything without a bra on. When I wear a bra my breasts don’t fill the cup - the dome does but the underside and sometimes the top don’t.
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Hello! Tuberous breast deformity is tough! Yours is pretty severe in that the lower breast pole is very short and constricted. Luckily you have only mild asymmetry (as significant asymmetry in tuberous breast deformity is common) and not much droop (called ptosis). The underlying mechanism is a...
Your breasts are widely separated and pointing outward. The technique I recommend is a mini lift. Using a circumareola incision, your breast tissue is reshaped, elevated higher on the chest wall and more medial to increase your cleavage.
Best Wishes,
Gary Horndeski, M.D.
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