Nipple correction

Nipple plasty is a surgical correction of their shape, areola size, congenital or acquired defects. In our St. Petersburg clinic we perform all types of mammoplasty and changes in shape, size, position of nipples, both in women and men. This is especially important in cases of overly large protruding nipples, flat, inverted, asymmetrical size, too large areola. The cost of the intervention and its volume depend on the type of surgery, the accompanying conditions and the volume of intervention.

PECULIARITIES OF NIPPLE CORRECTION SURGERY

This plastic surgery option helps with the size and shape of the areola and the nipple itself and its location. Surgeons can correct excessive convexity of the areola and/or nipple, flat nipples or retracted nipples with a failure of breast tissue. Plastic surgeries can help correct nipple asymmetry, reshape the areola, correct pigmentation levels, and change the color of the nipple and areola ring.

It is also possible to correct the natural shape of areolas and nipples that a man or woman is not happy with for certain reasons. Correction of the nipple and areola complex may also be required for age-related changes, after childbirth and lactation, as part of a breast reduction or breast lift.

TESTIMONY

Among the key indications for areola and nipple correction in women or men are the following situations:

• asymmetrical nipples of congenital or acquired nature (if breast plasty was performed unsuccessfully), age-related changes that lead to asymmetry;
• uneven contours in the area of the nipple-areolar zone;
• Correction of inverted, flat nipples;
• removal of thickened nipples in both women and men;
• Correction of a protruding breast nipple;
• Areola deformity, flattening or stretching due to sagging, stretching of the breast;
• Excessive nipple length, large areola size in a woman or a man;
• problems with lactation, which are provoked by too small or too large a nipple;
• consequences of breast trauma with scar deformities of this area;
• Breast removal in cancer treatment.

SURGICAL PREPARATION

This is a full-fledged plastic surgery that requires preparation and preliminary examination. Before the surgery, preparation is necessary, which begins with a consultation with the plastic surgeon. The doctor evaluates the condition of the breast, determines the tactics of surgery, the price of the intervention, and makes a list of additional procedures that are needed before the operation.

The patient undergoes the necessary examinations - he is tested, consulted by a mammologist, internist, anesthesiologist, and an ultrasound of the mammary glands. Two weeks before surgery, drugs that can affect blood clotting, alcohol is canceled, it is desirable to give up smoking.

PROCESS OF OPERATION

The doctor chooses the method of surgery during the first consultation - it depends on whether the woman is going to breastfeed. This is important because the surgery can damage the milk ducts. In men, the tactic depends on the severity of the problem, it is usually performed with gynecomastia - an increase in breast size due to health problems and fat metabolism.

Correction surgery can be performed in women in two ways:

With preservation of the integrity of the ducts, then the doctor needs a microscope to help in the correction of the areola and nipple and preservation of the integrity of the ducts.

The second method is with violation of the integrity of the ducts, it is shown only to non-breastfeeding women.

Areola reduction is performed as an independent operation as well as part of a reduction mammoplasty or breast lift.

REHABILITATION PROCESS

General recommendations are similar to those for other types of breast plastic surgery. It is important to wear corrective underwear, to treat wounds with antiseptics until healing is complete, to sleep only on your back or side, to limit the period of rehabilitation to any physical activity, to refuse bathing, postpone visits to the solarium and the sauna.