Patient's question:
I have a friend who has inverted nipples, both of them. Now she wants to get married and is worried that she won't be able to breastfeed her child in the future, so she wants to have a correction surgery. Has anyone ever had an inverted nipple correction surgery? How long does this surgery take, and is there a painless option available?Doctor's answer:
Huamei utilizes the most advanced minimally invasive techniques to correct inverted nipples. A diamond-shaped excision of the areola skin is made from the base of the nipple or between the areola intervals, followed by tightening and suturing. Simultaneously, the fibrous tissue pulling the nipple is released, allowing the nipple to protrude.For nipple reduction surgery, excessive nipple tissue is removed from the circumference of the base of the nipple or along the cylindrical part of the nipple, and then the tissue is reduced and sutured. Only gauze is applied postoperatively for 3 to 5 days, after which the stitches are removed.
The areola reduction surgery employs minimally invasive techniques. A circle is drawn with the nipple as the center and an appropriate radius (usually 1.5-2.5 cm). The circumferential areola skin outside this range is excised. The outer skin has a triangular piece of tissue removed from both the inner and outer sides of the transverse diameter to reduce the radius, aligning it with the new areola's radius.