Breast Hypoplasia/underdevelopment is a complex 3D correction and has to address in various degrees: skin shortage, the volume of breast tissue, and nipple areolar complex shape. Often patients may require a number of procedures throughout their lifetime, including volume replacement (augmentation) usually first, then secondary treatments include uplift (reshaping), fat transfer and areolar surgery.

Large, heavy, pendulous breasts can be uncomfortable and have a significant mental/physical and emotional affect on women, of any age. Breast reduction is also known as reduction mammoplasty.

The reduction procedure reduces breast volume, re-shapes and lifts the breast while for the vast majority of patients preserving breast sensation and function. The size of the areolar will also be made smaller if needed to give a more aesthetic result.

Breast reduction surgery has the highest patients satisfaction in aesthetic surgery despite the scars.

A Mastopexy may be the ideal procedure for patients who have a reasonable breast volume, but the position/shape of the bust is not ideal following for example weight loss, pregnancy and breastfeeding.

This operation involves maintaining as much volume as needed, lifting the breast and re-shaping the breast mound and placing the breast tissue in a higher, in a pert position on the chest wall. The size of the areolar will also be adjusted smaller if needed to give a more aesthetic result.

This procedure is used to firstly replace lost volume to the breast using a Breast implant. Then performing the Mastopexy, which involves maintaining as much volume as needed, lifting the breast and re-shaping the breast mound and placing the breast tissue in a higher, in a pert position on the chest wall. The size of the areolar will also be adjusted smaller if needed to give a more aesthetic result.

A wonderful way of using nature’s excess from an area that you do not like such as the lower tummy or thighs. The excess fat once harvested, is washed and filtered and then re-injected back into the areas of the breast that is needed. The aim of this surgery is to increase the volume or balance natural asymmetry

It is very important to note that:

1.This Lipo-sculpture technique results in a maximal 1/2 to one cup size increase only.

2. It is NOT a technique that provides any true “lift” to the breast.

Male breast surgery, which is planned to address one or of all of the following: excess fat (liposuction) excess breast glandular tissue (open excision and removal) and excision of skin excess if needed.

These three simpler breast procedures are performed under local anaesthetic as a day case procedure.

Inverted nipple correction – either due to a developmental (born with it) or follow on from an infective process resulting in an imbalance between the length of the breast ducts or the strength of the muscle that lifts the nipple upwards. The surgical technique can have immediate, significant and long-term result in the space of 15-20 minutes, but unfortunately the breast ducts need to be cut so breast feeding is not possible post op.

Congenital nipple shape asymmetry – due to the way the breast buds develop in the womb, occasionally the shape of the nipple is not as uniform, or symmetrical compared to the opposite side. This can be reshaped to closer match the opposite side. 

Areolar reduction surgery performed in various situations such as asymmetry of areolar size with similar breast volumes, or as part of breast reshaping in conditions of tubular breast or breast hypoplasia. It is not a technique to be used to attempt to lift the breast.