Breast Reduction also known as Reduction Mammoplasty is a type of plastic surgery procedure for reducing the size of large breasts.
A breast reduction procedure is to re-size enlarged breasts and to correct breast ptosis by removing excess tissues, overstretched suspensory ligaments, and transposes the nipple-areola complex (NAC) higher upon the breast hemisphere. At puberty, the breast grows in consequence to the influences of the hormones estrogen and progesterone; as a mammary gland the breast is composed of lobules of glandular tissue, each of which is drained by a lactiferous duct that empties to the nipple. Most of the volume and rounded contour of the breasts are conferred by the adipose fat interspersed amongst the lobules — except during pregnancy and lactation, when breast milk constitutes most of the breast volume.
