How is a breast reduction procedure performed?

How is a breast reduction procedure performed?

Steve Fallek (Plastic Surgeon & Medical Director, Face Focus Medical Spa, New York City) gives expert video advice on: How is a breast reduction procedure performed?; Who can get a breast reduction?; Is a breast reduction painful? and more...

Breast reduction usually addresses two major concerns patients have. They are extra skin and extra breast tissue, and a breast reduction removes both of those areas. In general, there are three different types of incisions or scars that are associated with a breast reduction. For smaller patients, you may be able to get away with what we call the periareola, around the nipple incision. For the majority of patients, though, breast reduction involves either a lollipop incision - an incision around the nipple and then straight down - or the anchor or reverse T incision, which is around the nipple, straight down and then in the inframammary crease or crease area.