Can I get a breast reduction without areola reduction? (Photo)

Thanks for posting your questions and photograph.  You appear to be an excellent candidate for breast reduction surgery to lift your breasts back up your chest wall and address your asymmetry.  Complications can occur with any surgery which is why its important to select a plastic surgeon with extensive experience in breast reduction surgery. Nipple loss is very rare.  Its normal to experience some decrease or change in sensation after surgery as the nerves are disturbed during the procedure.  These changes will tend to improve over 6 months or so as bruised nerves recover but most patients are left with some mild sensory change which varies from person to person. You can have a breast reduction without an areola reduction but the usual recommendation would be to come down to about 4.5cm diameter and this carries no additional risk.  In the hands of an experienced surgeon, you will achieve an excellent result. By far, the patients undergoing breast reduction in my practice, are amongst the happiest.

Hi, thanks for sharing your concern and photos with us!
First I want to congratulate you for making this important decision. Deciding to get an aesthetic procedure to change your body and get a new life style is a big step!

Looking at your photos I might say that you´ll be a great candidate to get a breast reduction because you have enough tissue to reshape to reduce and lift it. its always necessary to make a peri areolar reduction to preform this procedure. Before all this, of course, you need to get a complete medical evaluation and laboratory exams to check everything is fine. For us your safety, always, is going to be first.

Have a great day!

Dr. JPG