Reduction mammaplasty is not only a plastic surgery, but also a functional surgery. The breasts of women can reach quite large sizes due to hormonal changes during adolescence and pregnancy and/or due to excess weight gained. Breasts that increase in weight and increase in size cause mental and physical health problems. The only way to aesthetically reduce breasts in significant amounts is reduction mammaplasty.

Enlarged and heavy breasts; They cause neck, back and waist pains, bra straps creating scars and bruises on the shoulders, rash and bad smell in the lower parts of the breasts, and also difficulties in choosing clothes, restriction of physical activities and even social phobia. Especially young patients tend to wear loose clothing for camouflage and slouch.

It is obvious that you will benefit from reduction mammaplasty if your bra straps are crushing your shoulders, and if you also have all or some of the other complaints mentioned above.

Although slightly large breasts can be reduced to some extent by liposuction, the solution for most patients with complaints is reduction mammaplasty. There are many different techniques of reduction mammaplasty, which is often performed under general anesthesia, and many modifications of some techniques.

Your doctor decides which technique will be used with the planning to be made in the examination before reduction mammaplasty.

One of the determining factors of the technique to be used is the localization of the traces that will remain. The types of scars that will occur after reduction mammaplasty are as follows:

Vertical scar reduction (Lollipop scar): there is a scar all around along the areola followed by a straight or “j” scar that extends downwards.

Reduction mammaplasty, where there is no vertical scar: there is a scar all around the areola and a scar extending from the middle to the sides only at the inframammary fold.

Inverted T scar reduction mammaplasty: a scar all around the areola followed by a scar that extends downwards and extends from the midline to the sides under the breast (This scar that extends to the sides can be quite short or long, because in some patients the bases of the breasts occupy a wider space on the chest wall and some The breast bases of patients can be quite narrow.)

Although they are easily noticeable and red for a few months after the reduction mammaplasty procedure (even though they may become more evident around the 2nd month). However, they are never completely lost.

The surgery is performed under general anesthesia and takes about 3 hours. The length of stay in the hospital is 1 day and these periods can rarely change.

After reduction mammaplasty, you can often see plastic tubes coming out from both sides of your chest wall and plastic medical materials called “drains” at their ends. These are placed in the surgical field to prevent the accumulation of blood and other fluids and are removed by your doctor 1-2 days after the breast lift surgery. You don't need to be afraid, they don't hurt much when they are removed and you can take a bath 1-2 days after removal.

You can breastfeed your baby with 80% chance after breast reduction surgery. This surgery usually does not impair the ability to breastfeed, but the risk of not being able to breastfeed is not zero. After a successful breast reduction surgery, there is no loss of sensation in the nipple.

A sports bra should be worn day and night for 4 weeks after the surgery. Patients can return to their daily routine and work in 3-5 days, but they should avoid heavy sports and exercises that will force the arms and breasts before 4-6 weeks.

Reduction mammaplasty prices vary due to many variables (technique and difficulty to be applied, the hospital where the surgery will be performed, etc.), so ask your doctor about reduction mammaplasty prices for the most accurate prices.