Developmental disorders of the female breast

Young women often complain that their breasts are of unequal size, that they have a tubular shape or that the nipples are unnaturally large. All of these things can have developmental disorders of the female breast as their cause.

Breasts are not always beautifully shaped; sometimes they do not develop completely during puberty. The female breast then has a rather pointed shape, which is called a tuberous breast or a tuberous breast.

Correction of a tuberous breast

The cause of the tuberous breast is an underdevelopment of the breast, usually of the lower part of the gland. This becomes clear in puberty, when the part of the breast below the nipple develops hardly at all or not at all. Not infrequently the mammary gland is noticeably thickened and the nipple ‘pops’ out of the breast, while there is little or no breast tissue. An implant alone is not a solution here, however. The cause has to be remedied, because otherwise the pointed, unattractive shape would remain despite the breast augmentation.

The nipple and the mammary gland have to be corrected

An implant can bring about an enlargement of the small breast, but it cannot change the shape. A breast augmentation on a tuberous breast is therefore always somewhat more involved. Usually both the nipple itself has to be corrected and the mammary gland has to be fully unfolded in the course of the operation, so that the breast afterwards takes on a beautiful natural shape.

The correction of tuberous breasts often takes an enormous psychological burden away from patients, one they have carried with them since puberty. The shape can be corrected beautifully and aesthetically in the course of a breast augmentation and the patients gain a new sense of life.