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What are Breast Asymmetries?

There is a certain asymmetry in the hands, feet, face and many parts of the body. This also applies to breasts. However, if the deformity or asymmetry of the breasts causes a cup size difference in the use of bras, it is possible to consider this as a condition that needs to be treated.

Breast asymmetries that may occur due to subsequent causes such as pregnancy or breastfeeding, or congenital and developmental disorders in the breasts are as follows:

  • Both breasts are different in shape, volume or size,
  • Both teat diameters being different from each other.

The demands of the patients are also decisive for the planning of the treatment process in breast asymmetries. To correct asymmetries, applications can be made to a single breast or to both breasts. Depending on the condition of the breasts, aesthetic interventions such as reduction, enlargement or erection can be applied.


What Causes Breast Asymmetries?

Breast asymmetries commonly develop due to congenital causes. It is usually due to less development of one breast. However, in some cases, more sucking of a breast by the baby during the post-pregnancy breastfeeding period may also cause asymmetry in the breasts.

Other conditions that can cause breast asymmetries can be listed as follows:

  • Breast infections that occur during the development of the breasts,

  • Breasts that grow during breastfeeding do not shrink at the same rate at the end of the breastfeeding period,

  • Uneven breast growth or reduction in cases such as excessive weight gain or excessive weight loss,

  • Changes in the inner or outer part of the breasts due to diseases,

    • Loss of volume due to aging,

    • Shape and size differences due to various traumas or surgical interventions,

    • Surgical interventions due to breast cancer.

      Breast asymmetries should be controlled by the surgeon and the best possible treatment method should be planned by listening to the patient's demands.

      What Are The Symptoms In Breast Asymmetries?

      The type and size of the asymmetry in the breasts may cause the symptoms to be different.
      The most common symptoms of breast asymmetries are:

      • Both nipples are different from each other in diameter,
      • The areolas of both breasts are different in diameter.
      • There is little or no development in one of their breasts,

      These are the physical symptoms that occur in breast asymmetries. As these physical symptoms will create an unaesthetic appearance, they may also affect the patients psychologically.

      Problems such as lack of self-confidence and alienation from the opposite sex can be shown at the beginning of these. Since people will lose their self-confidence, they become lonely by moving away from their social environments. He may have problems in intimacy with his partner and may refuse this intimacy. In addition, due to the size and shape of the breasts, she will not be able to wear the clothes she wants, as she will try to cover the breasts. 

      In short, the whole life is negatively affected in this situation and treatment is essential to eliminate these negative effects.


      Treatment of Breast Asymmetries

      The shape and size of the breasts are decisive in the treatment of breast asymmetries. In cases where one breast is much larger than the other, breast reduction surgery can be applied, and in the opposite cases, breast reduction surgery can be applied. If the patients are satisfied with the size and shape of the smaller breast, reducing the larger breast gives much more effective results. Because it is much easier to shape a breast with more adipose tissue.

      The techniques applied in breast asymmetry surgeries are similar to the techniques in enlargement, reduction and lift operations. There are important points that patients should pay attention to before and after the operation.


      How is Breast Asymmetry Surgery Performed?

      It is of great importance that the patient's expectations are fully understood by the surgeon before breast asymmetry surgery. When deemed necessary, the post-operative appearance is decided by the patient and the doctor through computer-assisted software. If the breasts are large, the necessary treatment method is shared with the patient. For the enlargement of the smaller breast, it is decided whether silicone and prosthesis applications or fat injection is a better method. Then, breast ultrasound and breast mammography of the patients are taken and the patients are informed about the preoperative procedure. 

      Depending on the treatment method decided before the operation, the patient is placed under local or general anesthesia.

      Again, according to the technique, the details that should be known about this operation, which can vary between 30 minutes and 2.5 hours, are as follows:

      The post-operative process is similar in breast reduction, augmentation and lift operations. Normal life can begin within a week, but lifestyle changes recommended by the doctor should be followed for 2 months. It is of great importance that the whole process is managed by a specialist surgeon.

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