Breast reduction surgery for women of color
I have separately provided tips on how to reduce breast size and what is the right age for a breast reduction procedure. I also pointed that your health insurance may cover the breast reduction plastic surgery. There is one group of women, however, who continue to suffer: women with darker skin tones, for example, African Americans, Latinas, and some Asian women. Since the scarring (keloid and hypertrophic scars) is worse in darker-skinned women, they simply choose not to go under the knife. Tyra Banks wanted to reduce her breast size but didn’t, unlike Queen Latifah who did.
A new procedure now allows some of these women to have smaller breasts with the use of liposuction. According to plastic surgeon Sherwood Baxt, “Through this less invasive procedure, patients experienced no scarring, a decrease or elimination of physical symptoms, and an increase in self-esteem and quality-of-life. However, liposuction reduction is not appropriate for women whose primary concern is to lift overly large, sagging breasts.”
In addition, liposuction breast reduction is only effective at removing fat, and not gland tissue. The procedure is ineffective for patients whose breasts are primarily glandular. In most cases, patients’ breasts cannot be reduced as much as traditional breast reduction surgery. So talk to your surgeon to find out if this procedure is right for you. If not, your only hope is a traditional procedure that offers both volume reduction and lift.
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