What for the operation serves?

The surgery´s aim is to reduce and give a graceful shape to the mammas. The techniques are many and choosed for each case specifically.

It is an ambulatorial made surgery, it means the patient is discharged from hospital at the same day. The anesthesia can be local or peridural, both with sedation, or even with general anesthesia.

What can the surgery offer?

The chosen technique and consequently the resulting scar depends on the kind and on the excess of skin, besides the volume of the mammary gland that will be removed. Normally the reductive mammoplasty´s scars stays with good aspect and gets almost imperceptible after one year from the operation, except in patients with cicatricial problems.

Preoperative and Postoperative Cares.

For the preoperative the main recommended care is the tobacco abstention for the tobacco users.

After the surgery the patient is oriented about the movements with the upper members that she will not be able to do in the early weeks, avoiding to carry weight and protecting against the sun for three months.