Operation of the breast
For whom is breast reduction or reduction mammoplasty intended?
The reduction mammoplasty is for women of all ages in good health from 18 years who have a breast too large and drooping: we speak of unilateral or most often bilateral breast hypertrophy.
In the case of very large and very annoying breast in a young girl, the operation can be considered from 15-16 years at the end of the growth. She will be released and will be able to blossom clear of all complex and the eyes of others.
What is the reduction mammoplasty?
The purpose of the breast reduction is to reduce the volume of the breast while giving it a nice shape adapted to the morphology of the patient.
Breast reduction
In practice, how is the operation going to?
Reduction mammoplasty is performed under general anesthesia and requires 48 hours of clinical hospitalization.
And after breast surgery?
The consequences are not painful but require nursing and the resumption of the professional activity is possible after 2 weeks.
A participation of the CPAM is it possible?
Which depending on the importance of breast hypertrophy, a recovery in charge of hospitalization costs is possible: it is in consultation that your surgeon will tell you the modalities of care by both the CPAM as well your mutual.
Who is the breast lift?
Breast lift is for patients who have drooping breast after pregnancy of after a change in weight
Resulting in loosening of tissue.
What is the difference with reduction mammoplasty?
The operation corrects the drooping breast and gives it a nice shape without removing mammary gland because the breast volume already present is sufficient. The principle of the operation is the same as for breast reduction knowing that it concerns only the cutaneous – fat envelope and that the scars can be smaller located just around the areola or in a vertical line.
Once the breasts return, if the volume is insufficient compared to the morphology and the wish of the patient, it is possible to associate during breast lift breast augmentation by prostheses.
Reduction Mammoplasty
What is the location of the scars after breast aesthetic surgery?
Remodeling and decreased breast volume involve vertical and horizontal scars in the breast groove (“reversed T-scar”). After a red and reaction period the scars whiten and refine.
Are the scars annoying?
In view of the physical and psychological benefits of reduction mammoplasty, patients are not uncomfortable and instead found the pleasure of dressing and having a breast proportionate to their silhouette.
Rates for breast reduction
What is the price?
The price of a mammoplasty of reduction under general anesthesia in clinic is from 1500 euro for the fees in case of assumption by load by the CPAM. At the end of the consultation a quote will be given to you to send to your mutual to know the amount of the assumption of responsibility.
By way of the information the cost of a breast lift without associated gesture under general anesthesia in clinic is from 3800 euros incl. VAT and including clinic fees and other pays.
For more information on reduction mammoplasty , consult the sheet of the French Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery.