Breast Reduction Complications Pictures

Look at the photos of complications after breast reduction. Breast reduction complications include the potential problems with any surgery – bleeding, infection, risk of anesthesia, poor wound healing, and poor scar formation.

All of these risks are very low in a relatively healthy, nonsmoking patient.

Other more specific risks include loss of sensation and problems with future breast feeding.

A properly done breast reduction by an experienced plastic surgeon (ie over 10-15 years in practice) in a well qualified not overweight patient has very few complications.

The main risks are the anesthesia, bleeding (rare), infection (even rarer), numbness (about 10%), inability to breast feed (possibly but not likely), wound separation (higher in smokers so they should be off all nicotine for one month before and after surgery), and loss of the nipple areola requiring reconstruction (very rare but higher in smokers).

Bust Reduction Surgery Has The Same Risks As Any Other Type Of Major Surgery

There are generic consequences and risks and there are specific consequences and risks.

  1. Generic Consequences – bleeding, scars, pain, mild asymmetry, temporary sensation alteration, swelling, bruising
  2. Generic Complications – severe bleeding, abnormal scars, permanat loss of sensation, severe asymmetry, tissue loss, poor wound healing
  3. Specific Complications – loss of nipple sensation, necrosis of the nipple, fat necrosis, hypertrophic scarring, severe asymmetry, chronic pain. (John P. Stratis, MD, Harrisburg Plastic Surgeon)
Breast Reduction has risks

The Risk Of Poor Wound Healing

Medical risks are bleeding, infection, delayed wound healing, nipple numbness, difficult lactation after pregnancy, and scarring. Anesthetic risks are low, but larger reductions likely need general anesthesia and anesthetic risks are related to your health.

Cosmetic risks are uneven breasts afterword, widened scars, thick scars, and uneven size of breasts related to weight gain or loss in the future. Most women are thrilled to reduce size D breasts or larger and feel that scars fade! (Keith Denkler, MD, Marin Plastic Surgeon)

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