I'm 20 and I am positive my breasts are finished growing. do I have underdeveloped breasts maybe because of a hormone deficiency? I've been taking birth control since I was 15 because I would rarely ever have a period. Could the birth control have caused/covered up an underlying problem? Is there any type of hormone therapy I could undergo to fix my tuberous breasts and finally cause them to develop? if surgery is the only way, will insurance cover it, since it's classified as a congenital deformity?
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Thank you for your question. Hopefully, this information will help you. This method takes advantage of the principle that skin is expandable (like an abdomen during pregnancy). An inflatable implant is placed under the skin (and/or muscle) and is gradually increased in volume by adding saline ...
The tuberous breast
deformity can have a wide variety of presentations but essentially consist of
three basic elements: 1st, the constriction or underdevelopment of
the breast causing it to look narrow or short; 2nd, herniation or
bulging of the nipple/areolar complex (NAC); and 3rd, drooping....
You have #asymmetricbreasts. They do not look tubular to me but they are asymmetric. If you are standing straight in the photo the right breast fold is higher than the left. Lowering the right fold will involve barrel stave cuts in the right breast tissue to avoid a dubble bubble formation...
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