If you’re dealing with breast asymmetry, you may be experiencing anything from mild annoyance to serious self-confidence issues or depression. A skilled plastic surgeon can correct asymmetry through breast revision. This process is accomplished through a variety of breast reshaping techniques, designed to create better symmetry and offer you a more attractive, naturally balanced upper body.

It’s important to understand that truly symmetrical breasts are not the norm – most women have some natural asymmetry. Human bodies, of both males and females, are typically not perfectly symmetrical; we are all a bit uneven. If you feel that your breasts are mismatched or significantly uneven, you may benefit from corrective breast surgery in Westchester, NY or nearby northern NJ. Provided that you have realistic expectations, and choose your plastic surgeon wisely, breast revision surgery can offer you the balanced and attractive breasts that you desire.

What Can I Expect from Breast Revision to Correct Asymmetry?

Surgery for breast asymmetry can eliminate problems such as:

  • Uneven breasts or lopsided breasts.
  • A deflated saline implant, making one breast unnaturally small or flat.
  • One breast is higher on the chest than the other.
  • Breasts of two different cup sizes.
  • Uneven or asymmetrical nipples.
  • One breast is fuller at the top.
  • One breast is bottom-heavy or old implants have bottomed out.

Breast Revision for Asymmetry: Combined Strategies Create Beautiful Results

Whether your breast asymmetry is merely an annoyance or if it drastically affects your everyday life, see your trusted Westchester NY plastic surgeon for a breast revision solution tailored to fit your needs perfectly. The best plastic surgeons, true breast specialists, have a number of surgical strategies to lift and re-shape one, or both, breasts to create a result that you will love.

Your solution to achieve even breasts may involve breast implants, perhaps in different sizes on each side. It may involve making the larger breast smaller, also known as breast reduction. When you’re having breast revision surgery, your NY breast surgeon may reposition one or both nipples to a higher or more natural position on the breast mound. This can help to visually even out your breasts. In other cases, the inframammary crease (or inframammary fold, sometimes known as the IMF) may need to be surgically relocated so that the breasts sit in the appropriate position on your chest.

Choose a Skilled, Experienced and Aesthetically Aware Breast Revision Surgeon

To achieve even, symmetrical breasts that suit you perfectly, you will need a top-level breast surgeon that also possesses an artistic sense. Your Westchester, NY, plastic surgeon must use the above-mentioned techniques to ensure that there is a proper amount of fullness in the upper and lower poles of the breast. This may be accomplished through a combination of breast augmentation with implants and reshaping of natural tissue. Your surgery will involve very detailed aesthetic knowledge and precise surgical technique. For example, the nipple often looks most natural at about 3 inches above the IMF, but there are exceptions to every customary rule. Your surgeon must work carefully to leave the right amount of fat at the fold, for a long-lasting result and natural look.

Positioning of the breast implant(s) above or below the muscle is a crucial consideration in revision surgery so that your implants are not unnaturally placed when you flex. In addition, the lower portion of the pectoral muscle may need to be surgically released to allow a natural breast/implant position that is not too high.

All of these details depend on your specific anatomy and goals for the outcome of your surgery. Your NY breast surgeon will use a variety of techniques to create the natural-looking, symmetrically balanced breasts you desire.

What Causes Breast Asymmetry: Why Are My Breasts Uneven?

The way any one of us looks has much to do with genetics, but the following issues may also play a part in creating breast asymmetry:

  • Poor posture or improper body alignment, hunched shoulder(s).
  • Hormonal imbalance (pregnancy, menopause).
  • Stretched skin due to weight gain and loss.
  • Breastfeeding.
  • Prior breast surgery.
  • Stronger muscles on one side (due to right or left-hand dominance, for example).

Do I Need Surgery on Both Breasts to Achieve Symmetry?

No matter what is making your breasts appear uneven, breast corrective surgery can typically offer a solution. In general, you can expect to have surgery on both breasts, so that your Westchester breast surgeon can make them as similar as possible.

Breasts typically look the most symmetrical when they have about the same amount of natural tissue and implanted volume on both sides.

However, it is also possible (depending upon your specific anatomy) to improve breast symmetry by making changes to only one breast, so that it looks more like the other. In this situation, you would pick the breast you like most — and your NY plastic surgeon could alter the other breast to closely match it.

To find out if this is an option in your case, talk to an experienced, board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in breast revision to learn about your options. Accept only ABPS (American Board of Plastic Surgery) certification to ensure the highest skill level.

If uneven, asymmetrical breasts are a problem in your life, consult with an expert breast revision surgeon here in the Westchester, NY area.

We’ll work with you to create a tailored solution to achieve the look you desire with attractive, symmetrical and well-shaped breasts. Call on Cohen/Winters Aesthetic & Reconstructive Surgery in Bergen County, NJ, to learn about your revision options to correct breast asymmetry. Contact us today.


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Dr. Cohen

About Dr. Cohen

Dr. Cohen specializes in breast lifts, augmentations, revisions and reductions as well as breast cancer reconstructions. A long time dream of Dr. Cohen’s was to travel to developing countries and provide expert surgical care to those who have no other possible access to medical care. This became a reality in 2007 when she became a founding member and Vice President of ISMS Operation Kids.