What is Breast Reduction?

Since breast sagging and breast size conditions, which are very common in the society, reduce the quality of life and cause many other problems, breast reduction surgeries have become quite common and popular operations over time. Contrary to the usual, unlike aesthetic concerns such as breast augmentation, the concern set out in breast reduction operations is medical-based.

In addition to large breast-related problems such as back and shoulders pain, sagging breast-related problems such as wounds under the breasts and infections caused by these wounds are among the medical concerns mentioned above. From these points of view, breast reduction operations are a surgical procedure that significantly increases the quality of life for women who experience similar problems.

The success of the procedure is closely related to many factors, as is the case with all medical operations. Genetic infrastructure, correct determination of the problem, selection of a good doctor and a clinic of a high quality stand out as the most important of these factors.

A breast reduction operation can take between 2.5 and 4 hours, and sometimes this time may increase a little more depending on the tissue structure of the patient undergoing the operation. Since the operation is performed under anesthesia, no pain is felt by the patient during the procedure, and postoperative pain is minimized with pain relief treatments. Recovery and returning to normal life, which is one of the most frequently asked questions, takes usually about 1 week.

What is Breast Augmentation?

Breast augmentation surgery is the name of the surgical procedure used to increase the volume of the breasts. The main idea of the operation is to place breast implants under the breast tissues and chest muscles according to the desired volume.

There may be many reasons for deciding to have breast augmentation surgery. The main ones are that both breasts are congenitally small, one breast is smaller than the other or both breasts are sagging.

The success of the procedure is closely related to many factors, as is the case with all medical operations. Genetic infrastructure, correct determination of the problem, selection of a good doctor and a clinic of a high quality stand out as the most important of these factors.