Scraping Breast Tissue Before Augmentation Normal?

Interesting question.  I am not aware of this technique.  There are no additional maneuvers such as scraping the breast that may prevent the incidence of future breast cancer.  Statistically, one in nine women will be confronted with breast cancer.  Family history is an important contributor to one's risk of future cancer.  Other modifiable risk factors include smoking, obesity, radiation exposure, and others.  Hormone useage such as hormone replacement therapy or oral contraceptive use has some influence on breast cancer.  The above procedure that you mentioned does not sound like legitimate practice, but it may have been taken out of context. 

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This is either a misunderstanding by the patient as to what she was told her surgeon did (after all, she was asleep), or her inaccurately restating what was described to her.

"Scraping" is not a surgical step in breast augmentation. If it was, it would only cause bleeding, higher risk of capsular contracture, or potentially expose more intraductal bacteria to the implant--all bad!

Furthermore, there is NO step that we surgeons can take that reduces the risk of breast cancer other than removing the breast tissue, eliminating the potential site of the cancer.

I believe your online friend was being honest, but also that this is incorrect or misconstrued.

I have never heard of this.i wonder if the doctor is doing a breast biopsy to bill the insurance for the "procedure."

There is no procedure that I'm familiar with which involves scraping of a breast to reduce cancer risk. Most likely this was a misinterpretation of what this women had done (not uncommon at all!).

I have had two patients who have previously had subcutaneous mastectomies (possibly misinterpreted as "scraping")  for fibrocystic breast disease and had implants placed.  Not performed any longer as far as I know.  It is certainly odd to be told this by any plastic surgeon.