Breast Reduction Gallery

An RN in her early 60’s who has had a gastric sleeve and has lost 90 lbs. She is a 48 DDD and has problems with back pain, shoulder pain and difficulty ambulating. She is shown before and again, 6 months after a free nipple graft technique combined with lateral thoracic contouring.

A woman in her later 20’s who wears a 36F cup bra and has problems with back and neck pain as well as difficulty exercising because of the size of her breasts. She is 5’8” and 230 lbs and is shown before and 8 months after a bilateral breast reduction with the removal of around 800 grams of breast tissue from each breast ( 454grams = 1 lb) Her nipples were outworly displaced or “walleyed” and were brought back to the median of her breast. Scars will continue to fade and improve for the next 2 years but her symptoms have resolved and she is thrilled with her new shape and size.

A woman in her early 20’s with bilateral macromastia. She is a 36 DD and has had problems with back pain, difficulty exercising, shoulder pain, grooving and irritation of her shoulders from the bra straps, a rash under the breast in the warmer months and difficulties with her posture. She had lost weight recently but her breasts were still too large. It was especially difficult for her to run. She is 5’ 3 ½” and 134 lbs and is shown before and again, 8 months after breast reduction with the removal of 440 gas from her left breast and 374 grams from her right breast ( there are 454 grams in a pound) to reduce her to a C cup. Her symptoms have all resolved, Scars typically continue to fade and improve over the first 2-3 years.

A 6 week followup on a woman in her early 40’s with bilateral macromastia and breast ptosis
She describes herself as a 40DDD and has had prolems with grooving and irritation of her shoulders from her bra straps, back pain, shoulder pain, difficulty exercising due to the size of her breasts even with wearing extra bras.
She is 5’5” and 182 lbs and is shown just 6 weeks after bilateral breast reduction with the removal of 766 grans from her right breast and 743 grams from her left breast to reduce her to a full C cup. Her symptoms have all resolved. Scars typically will begin to fade and soften after the first 6 weeks and continue to improve for the next 2-3 years.

A student in her early 20’s who describes herself as a 34 H cup bra and has had problems with back and should pain, difficulty exercising due to the size of her breasts, despite wearing extra sports bras to run. She has grooving and irritation of her shoulders from her bra straps, as well as a rash under the breasts in the warmer weather and problems with her posture. She is 5’9” and 181 lbs and is shown before and again, 4 months after bilateral breast reduction with the removal of more than 500 grams of tissue from her right breast and more than 600 grams of tissue from her left breast to reduce her to a mid C cup. Her areola’s were reduced in size and brought back to the median of her breast. She is thrilled by her new shape and size, and all of her symptoms have resolved! Although scars typically continue to fade for 2 years or longer, we have had her using topical silicone and they are already fading well.

A woman in her mid 60’s who is a 40 D cup and has problems with chronic back pain. She is shown before and again 7 months after a bilateral breast reduction with the removal of 533 grams of tissue from her right breast and 478 grams from her left breast to reduce her to a “C” cup. Her back pain is dramatically better and she is thrilled with her new shape and size.

An early ( 6 week) follow-up on a woman in her early 20’s with macromastia.
She is 5’ 2 ½ “ and 126 lbs and is shown before and again, just 6 weeks after bilateral breast reduction with the removal of 378 gms from her right breast and 423 gms from her left breast to reduce her from a 34 DDD to a 34 Cup. Scars are typically at the reddest and thickest at 6 weeks and will now begin to soften and fade over the next 2 years. She is already thrilled with her new shape and size and her symptoms of back and shoulder pain have completely resolved.

A mother of 2 in her later 20’s who is over her ideal body weight at 5’5” and 210 lbs. She is a 44 DDD cup and has had problems with back pain, shoulder pain, difficulty exercising due to the size of her breasts and problems with her posture. Her case is complicated by forming hypertrophic scars and she has had prior kenalog injections from her dermatologists. She is shown before and again, 17 months after bilateral breast reduction. She has used topical silicone to help with the scars and we have injected some with kenalog as necessary. She is thrilled with her new shape and size and her symptoms have resolved. She will continue to use topical silicone for the next 6 months or longer until the redness in her scars has resolved.

A woman in her later 50’s who was a 40 D cup and had problems with grooving of her shoulders, shoulder pain, back pain and difficulty with her posture. She is shown before and again, nearly 5 months after bilateral breast reduction with the removal of just over 300 gms of tissue from each breast to reduce her to a C cup. Her symptoms related to the macromastia have resolved, and she is thrilled with her new shape and size. A braline back lift was performed at the same time.

A woman in her early 40’s with a 40 DDD-E cup bra who has difficulty exercising and running on a treadmill, even with wearing 2 or more support bras. She has back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, and a rash under her breasts in the warmer months. She had wanted to wait until after children in a wish to breast feed, but was unable to breast feed. Studies now show that around 64 % of women are able to breast feed, and the same number are also able to breast feed after either a superior pedicle or an inferior pedicle breast reduction. So, although not all women can breast feed, having a breast reduction does not reduce the chances. She has also lost 40 lbs recently but her breasts were still too large for her frame. She is shown before and again, 7 months after an inferior pedicle, inverted T scar breast reduction. She is now a C cup and all of her symptoms have resolved! She is thrilled with her new shape and size. Scars will typically continue to fade and improve for the next 18 months.