Breast Augmentation for Tubular Breasts
Breast Implants, Tuberous/Tubular Breasts, breast augmentation, breast surgery Comments Off
Surgical rejuvenation expert Richard Rodriguez, M.D., a Maryland board-certified plastic surgeon, has a good post and picture on his blog about correction of tubular breasts with breast implants.
Tubular breasts are considered a bona fide medical deformity, even though most patients with the condition are not aware they have an actual deformity. Most just assume they have very small breasts. Some aren’t aware a correction is possible
As you might guess from the name, Tubular breasts are usually small, very long and narrow, have large areola and often sag even though the patient is a teen or very young woman. In some places, Tubular breasts are known as “snoopy breasts”.
Often, a Tubular breast patient requires only an A or AA cup and is usually embarrassed about her appearance.
For instance, one patient with size AA tubular breasts who finally had her breasts surgically corrected recalled how humiliated she felt during her competitive swimming career when she showed up at poolside in a skin tight Speedo bathing suit.
Away from the pool, she wore a padded bra. After her breast enlargement, she shed tears of joy the first time she saw the results and was over the moon with her new, natural appearance.
It requires extreme skill to correct the condition because the surgeon must do, all in one surgical session a:
The surgeon enlarges the base of the Tubular breasts — and makes room for the implants – by reaching down from the areola and making a series of incisions around the bottom of the breast. Surgeons who use that approach say it also reduces the overly large areola.
That does two things:
- Reduces the projection of the tubular breasts
- Creates a natural-looking cleavage between the breasts
Some surgeons prefer to enter the breasts from the inframammary fold, the area where the very bottom of the breast meets the chest wall.
View examples of tubular breast correction in a surgeon’s before and after pictures.
admin @ April 24, 2009