How a Nipple Reduction Surgery Works

How a Nipple Reduction Surgery Works Dr. Drew Ordon: And you know we talked about other breast surgery all the time, breast reduction, breast lifting. Dr. Lisa Masterson: This is on men or women nipple reduction? Dr. Drew Ordon: Either or. Dr. Jim Sears: I guess whoever needs it. Dr. Lisa Masterson: Yeah. Dr. Drew Ordon: You can do both but typically in a man, even if his breast enlarged, the nipple areola doesn’t enlarge. So, two things you’ll look at is the nipple itself, does it stick out too far and that’s something that we can reduce actually telescope in with surgery if it bothers you. But more commonly this part, the areola is overly large and we actually can reduce that size. Dr. Lisa Masterson: Now, is there really an overly large? I mean we know that some women have a larger areola and some have some smaller areola but that’s just very abnormal, you can’t really say that there’s a normal or not. Dr. Drew Ordon: With large breast, with after pregnancy gaining weight that kind of thing, the areola is going to enlarge. So, if you find it to be too big, we can reduce it. What I’ve done here, I’ve made an incision. Dr. Lisa Masterson: So, it’s to a woman’s liking. Dr. Jim Sears: But you’re saying it’s not abnormal. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just bigger than they like. Dr. Drew Ordon: So, the final step here, you reduce the size and then you’re going to pull that in surgically like so and close that area so that you’ve reduced the areola from that size to whatever size you want. Dr. Lisa Masterson: Now, can’t you get some loss of sensations? Dr. Drew Ordon: Yes, anytime you cut around the nipple areola, there is a risk of losing sensation but we do it in such a way that we leave the big nerves, we keep them intact coming in from below. Dr. Jim Sears: What sort of percentage do you see loss of sensation, maybe just a couple of percent or is it pretty common? Dr. Drew Ordon: I really have never seen where somebody can’t feel at all, a decrease to a certain degree maybe ten percent. Dr. Jim Sears: Okay, so not that much. Dr. Lisa Masterson: Shouldn’t it interfere with breastfeeding? Dr. Drew Ordon: Well typically, you would want to do this after you’re done having kids. Any incisions like this around the areola, around the nipple, best served waiting until after pregnancy. Dr. Lisa Masterson: Now I have a question, do you guys like smaller areola? [Voice Overlap] Dr. Jim Sears: I just like them, period. Dr. Travis Stork: I happen to agree with Dr. Lisa because I feel like we started this off talking about the perfect equation and I think there is this pressure especially talking about Heidi Montag who I thought was beautiful before and now looks a little robotic to me. I feel like you took someone who has a very natural appearance and have made her into a perfect looking model and I think that there isn’t a perfect size. There isn’t a perfect back, there isn’t a perfect nipple size and I do feel sometimes like if you’re maybe a woman, you’re watching these things and you’re thinking; “Oh my gosh, my nipples a little bigger than -- Dr. Lisa Masterson: Her. Dr. Drew Ordon: It’s not that all nipples have to be the same but if it bothers you and you’re realistic about it, there are options that are worth looking into. Dr. Travis Stork: Would you agree that doing ten plus procedures in a sitting are a bit absurd? Dr. Drew Ordon: Way too much if somebody that young, that look that good to begin with and her reasoning was so Hollywood influenced and -- Dr. Travis Stork: It breaks my heart and not to focus on that but it breaks my heart because I see someone who is a fairly -- I hate to use the word normal but from the heart of the Midwest and it comes out to Hollywood and then there’s all these pressure to look a certain way and I just don’t think that anyone ever can really feel good if you’re going in and getting ten procedures and you come out and you don’t even recognize yourself in the mirror. Dr. Lisa Masterson: The beauty of everyone is that everyone looks different in an individual. Yeah, that’s what you want to see. Dr. Jim Sears: Inner confidence is I think what really makes somebody attractive. [Voice Overlap] Dr. Drew Ordon: -- patient for plastic surgery, something’s basically happy with themselves going into it is pretty well adjusted, is not looking for err shuddering changes in their life but has something where there are love handle or -- Dr. Jim Sears: Maybe a problem if they’re not happy with their inner self and they think fixing their areolas are going to make a big difference because it’s not. Dr. Drew Ordon: Well no.