Science: How are problem breasts repaired?

The significance of breasts to a woman’s appearance goes without saying. Some candidates are looking to make their breasts more beautiful, while there are others who are looking to make their breasts healthy in the first place. Now, I will describe how to repair two common types of breasts with health problems. One is the congenital problem of the breast – inverted nipple, and the other is the acquired problem of the breast – breast reconstruction. I. What does a healthy breast look like? Adult female breasts, well-developed people are mostly hemispherical or conical. The cylindrical or conical protrusion in the center of the breast is the nipple, whose shape, size and position vary from person to person and from time to time, generally 1.2cm, about 0.6-1.5cm high, and the breast skin around the root of the nipple has a darker ring-shaped area called the areola, whose diameter is about 2.4cm. The condition of breast reconstruction is very important. What is breast reconstruction? Breast reconstruction is also called “breast reconstruction”. Surgery is divided into immediate reconstruction and delayed reconstruction, also known as one-stage reconstruction and two-stage reconstruction. Stage I reconstruction is to reconstruct the breast immediately after radical mastectomy and is performed at the same time as the surgical treatment. This will be without the experience of a missing breast. Delayed reconstruction is done some time after radical mastectomy. Third, where is the tissue used to reconstruct the breast? The current opinion is that abdominal tissue is the best for autologous breast reconstruction. Why choose abdominal tissue for reconstruction? The reason is that the tissue in the lower abdomen is looser, i.e. richer, and therefore can provide additional soft tissue for breast reconstruction. Also, the scar after lower abdominal surgery will be a horizontal line that can be hidden by underwear and is relatively invisible. Since the surgery removes the sagging fat, the lower abdomen can also be tightened as a result, and the shape is improved in comparison. V. Risks? There are some surgical risks associated with the application of autologous tissue for breast reconstruction. For example, failure of the transferred tissue to survive, poor fat survival, and so on. Fortunately, the incidence of these complications is not very high, and the vast majority of patients are able to achieve a satisfactory reconstruction result. What is inverted nipple? It means that the nipple is caught in the areola, and the more obvious one may be crater-like deformity, and the surrounding areola may have ring-shaped bulge. What is the impact of inverted nipple? A part of women’s nipple flat or inverted not only lost the appearance of nipple erect, and easy to hide dirt caused by infection, and to the mammary gland spread to lead to mastitis, serious on the breast inversion, but also affect the baby sucking milk. The performance of nipple inversion symptoms: the degree of nipple inversion varies, some nipples are only partially inverted, the nipple neck still exists, the hand can be inverted nipple extrusion; some nipples are all plunged into the areola, can still be squeezed out with the hand; heavy nipple inversion, nipple is completely buried in the areola below the nipple, the hand can not be squeezed out of the nipple. How to correct nipple inversion? The treatment of nipple inversion depends on the patient’s age, the degree of inversion and the requirement of breastfeeding. Before treatment, the degree of nipple inversion can be judged. If it is mild, negative pressure suction device can be considered to attract and pull the nipple several times a day. If this is not effective, surgery can be used instead. For unmarried women who have not given birth to children and want to retain breastfeeding function, the surgery of preserving breast ducts is adopted, and partial subcutaneous prismatic excision is done around the areola of the inverted nipple, and the shortened fiber bundles are completely loosened and cut off to preserve the breast ducts, and the nipple is pulled and fixed, and the prismatic excision area around the nipple is stitched to form the new protruding nipple, and the inborn lack of tissues is replenished, and the shape is made more voluptuous and beautiful. For women who have already given birth and will not consider breastfeeding in the future, or for patients with recurrent local inflammation and severe nipple inversion due to scar pulling, the twinned fibers and scar at the base of the nipple can be removed during the operation, and the mammary ducts can be completely cut off in order to loosen the inverted nipple more fully.