Breast Augmentation - Ask a Surgeon

Thank you for your question. The inverted “T”abdominal plasty or the fleur-de-lis is used to improve skin looseness below the belly button and in the middle of your tummy. The price varies on your surgeon’s experience, the time required for your operation and difficulty level of your operation.
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Thank you for the question. The answer depends on your examination and a discussion of what exactly you are unhappy about with regard to nipple position- too high, too low, asymmetric?

That being said, implants can help with giving you back the size you want in addition to imparting a rounder shape to the breasts and enhancing cleavage. It may also help with nipple position as well. Depending on your exam, NAC repositioning may be needed if there is a large distance that needs to be corrected and sometimes this cannot be determined until you are in surgery and the implants are in place so the surgeon can assess the positioning and symmetry of the nipples.

Please see a board certified plastic surgeon for examination and discussion of the different options.

Hard lumps following fat transfer can occur particularly when larger volumes of fat are transferred and not adequately dispersed throughout. Depending on how long ago your surgery was, you may have developed "fat necrosis" which is where the fat cells failed to "take" sufficiently and have now died. Your body naturally encloses this clump of cells and forms a firm nodule. Depending on the size, they may need to be surgically removed to fully address the firmness. Smaller nodules may be adequately addressed with steroid injections and massage. As always, any new lump in the breast should also be evaluated for malignancy, however, given your recent surgery this is not the likely culprit.