{"id":130,"date":"2012-09-21T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2024-11-22T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:03:15","slug":"tuberous-breast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/tuberous-breast\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberous Breast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a breast surgery specialist I come across many different types of breast conditions. One of these conditions is tuberous breast deformity. It occurs during breast development and can affect either one or both breasts. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Typically the characteristics of tuberous breast deformity are:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Constricted or narrow breast base<br \/>\n2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Puffy enlarged areola<br \/>\n3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 High breast fold<br \/>\n4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ptotic, or droopy, nipples<\/p>\n<p>Women can exhibit some or all of these characteristics. Here are two examples of tuberous breast deformity. Notice that eventhough these patients both have tuberous breasts, they show different characteristics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Blog18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-131\" src=\"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Blog18.png\" alt=\"tuberous breast photo 1\" width=\"422\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Blog18.png 422w, https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Blog18-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The treatment for tuberous breast deformity center around widening the breast base, releasing the constricting bands and in some cases making the areolas smaller and less puffy. If a woman has a true tuberous breast deformity, a <a href=\"\/procedures\/breast\/breastaugmentation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traditional breast augmentation<\/a> will not correct the issues. In fact, the tuberosity may look worse if an implant is placed without addressing the other components of the tuberous breast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Blog19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132\" src=\"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Blog19.png\" alt=\"tuberous breast photo 2\" width=\"329\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Blog19.png 329w, https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Blog19-300x144.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about breast implants and breast surgery and to view before and after pictures of tuberous breasts visit my website at <a href=\"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/\">drdadvandplasticsurgery.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a breast surgery specialist I come across many different types of breast conditions. One of these conditions is tuberous breast deformity. It occurs during breast development and can affect either one or both breasts. Typically the characteristics of tuberous breast deformity are: 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Constricted or narrow breast base 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Puffy enlarged areola 3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 High breast fold 4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ptotic, or droopy, nipples Women can exhibit &hellip;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breast-implants","7":"category-breast-surgery","8":"category-plastic-surgery"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}