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Breast Asymmetry Correction: Reconstructive Cosmetic Surgery
Your Path to Breast Augmentation
Types of Implants
Breast Augmentation Techniques
Pre and Post Op Care
Pregnancy & Breast Augmentation
Nobody is perfectly symmetrical; everybody has asymmetry and no two breasts are identical.
Sometimes this asymmetry is minimal and invisible to the untrained eye, sometimes it is more pronounced.
Because of a strong background in Breast Reconstruction after Breast Cancer, Dr. Jugenburg is well equipped to offer Reconstructive Cosmetic Surgery to women who’s breast asymmetry is significant and where simple procedures won’t do the job. Using principles learned from reconstructing breast cancer patients, Dr. Jugenburg is able to repair significant breast asymmetry, and create a more natural and symmetric looking chest.
Sometimes this asymmetry is minimal and invisible to the untrained eye, sometimes it is more pronounced.
Because of a strong background in Breast Reconstruction after Breast Cancer, Dr. Jugenburg is well equipped to offer Reconstructive Cosmetic Surgery to women who’s breast asymmetry is significant and where simple procedures won’t do the job. Using principles learned from reconstructing breast cancer patients, Dr. Jugenburg is able to repair significant breast asymmetry, and create a more natural and symmetric looking chest.
Breast Asymmetry Correction – Cosmetic Breast Reconstruction
Breast Asymmetry is More Common Than You Might Imagine.
No two breasts are identical. In some cases, it can be very obvious and cause women significant distress. Women with visible breast asymmetry truly feel that they have an embarrassing deformity, resulting in a very negative body image, low self-esteem, and an inability to open up sexually. It is only natural for all women, to want their breasts to look normal, to be able to wear fitted clothing and bathing suits that follow their feminine contours. Reconstructive Cosmetic Breast Surgery performed by Dr. Jugenburg helps to improve your breast shape and symmetry. This is a more intensive procedure than a simple breast augmentation or a breast lift, involving principles of breast reconstruction in a cosmetic surgery patient.
Types of Breast Asymmetry
Woman of all ages have breast asymmetry; although, women with minimal asymmetry will likely be unaware of the slight unevenness between their breasts. Typically, right and left breasts may differ in size, position, orientation, and the size and shape of the nipples. The different types of asymmetry are:
Breast volume asymmetry
Nipple size and shape asymmetry
Nipple position asymmetry
Breast shape asymmetry
Breast position asymmetry
Some women also have breast asymmetry as a result of a rib abnormality. In this case, the ribs are deficient or very prominent on one side, which in turn affects the size of the breast. A woman with a prominent rib on one side, for example, will also have a breast that appears larger on that side.
Surgical Improvement of Breast Asymmetry
There are several things that can be done to improve breast symmetry during Breast Augmentation surgery. Simple breast asymmetries can be addressed during a routing cosmetic breast surgery. Using different implants, or slight modifications of the breast tissue can be done. More severe asymmetries may require a more reconstructive approach.
Using two different breast implants (to make the large breast smaller, or the smaller breast larger) is the simplest approach, yet choosing just the right combination of implants requires much experience, skill and cosmetic artistry.
Saline breast implants are useful for this purpose, as the right and left implants can be filled differently at the time of surgery to more precisely adjust for any mild asymmetry. More complicated procedures are required to correct breast shape and position asymmetry, and may require multiple stages of reconstruction. A larger breast often needs a Breast Reduction and Breast Lift to match the opposite breast.
In addition, the larger breast often has a larger areola, which also needs to be reduced in size to provide better symmetry.
During your Breast Augmentation consultation at the Toronto Cosmetic Surgery Institute, Dr. Jugenburg will examine your existing breast anatomy and discuss with you the options that may be available to improve your breast asymmetry. However, the intention will not be to give you a perfectly symmetrical chest, but a beautiful breast enhancement that gives the impression of a more symmetrical chest.
Reconstructive Cosmetic Breast Surgery is a more advanced approach for the moderate to severe asymmetry. Breast tissue, skin and the nipple/areola require a more complicated reconstruction. Your natural breast tissue must be reshaped and re-arranged. These procedures take longer and the recovery is also more critical than in straightforward cosmetic breast surgery.
Using two different breast implants (to make the large breast smaller, or the smaller breast larger) is the simplest approach, yet choosing just the right combination of implants requires much experience, skill and cosmetic artistry.
Saline breast implants are useful for this purpose, as the right and left implants can be filled differently at the time of surgery to more precisely adjust for any mild asymmetry. More complicated procedures are required to correct breast shape and position asymmetry, and may require multiple stages of reconstruction. A larger breast often needs a Breast Reduction and Breast Lift to match the opposite breast.
In addition, the larger breast often has a larger areola, which also needs to be reduced in size to provide better symmetry.
During your Breast Augmentation consultation at the Toronto Cosmetic Surgery Institute, Dr. Jugenburg will examine your existing breast anatomy and discuss with you the options that may be available to improve your breast asymmetry. However, the intention will not be to give you a perfectly symmetrical chest, but a beautiful breast enhancement that gives the impression of a more symmetrical chest.
Reconstructive Cosmetic Breast Surgery is a more advanced approach for the moderate to severe asymmetry. Breast tissue, skin and the nipple/areola require a more complicated reconstruction. Your natural breast tissue must be reshaped and re-arranged. These procedures take longer and the recovery is also more critical than in straightforward cosmetic breast surgery.
Right breast augmentation, left breast implants with a lift and reconstruction.
Significant chest wall asymmetry (pacts carinatum corrected using asymmetric implants: 540cc on the left and 390cc on the right) through a breast fold incision, under the muscle, saline implants.
Asymmmetric tuberous breasts treated with Reconstructive Breast Augmentation using saline breast implants (460cc left, 420cc right) and a reconstructive breast lift.
