I just had a breast reduction but I do not have drains, what does this mean?

Placing drains during a breast reduction is an older way of managing a patient postoperatively.  There is no data to support this routine surgical habit, but many plastic surgeons are products of their training.  A relative indication to place drains during a breast reduction may be due to oozing - not due to a single source of bleeding, but rather, multiple raw areas.