Tubular breast deformity is a congenital defect that prevents the breasts from fully developing during puberty. Tuberous breasts are often underdeveloped with puffy or pointy nipples. They have a cone-shaped or box-shaped appearance with one breast looking visibly smaller than the other.
Breast cosmetic surgery is the only way to treat tuberous breast deformity and fix constricted breasts or puffy nipples. It can be performed without implants if there is enough natural breast tissue. Otherwise, tuberous breast reconstruction is performed with implants to restore the normal appearance and volume of the breast. Medicare and your Private Health Fund may provide a subsidy towards Tuberous Breast Correction if you meet the strict criteria.
For less severe cases of breast deformity, fat grafting may be enough to sculpt the breasts and give them fuller and more natural shape. Moreover, a more advanced hybrid breast augmentation surgery can combine both implants and fat grafts to significantly improve the shape of conical breasts. Dr Jeremy Hunt performs tuberous breast surgery in Australia. Dr Hunt aims to help his patients get fuller and rounder breasts with a beautiful contour.
Tuberous breasts, also known as tubular breasts or hypoplastic breasts, are underdeveloped breasts that have irregular appearances. Instead of having the usual round or a pear shape, tubular breasts may be:
Tubular breast deformity can be apparent in one or both breasts and is also known as:
Although tubular breasts come in different shapes and sizes, they have common characteristics that include:
Tuberous breast deformity is more common than we think – a lot of women who have snoopy or cone-shaped breasts don’t seek treatment because they might not realise that there’s something that can be done to fix them.
Tubular breast deformity doesn’t cause any health problems or concerns. However, it might be more difficult for you to breastfeed if you have hypoplastic breasts.
Experienced Plastic Surgeons like Dr Jeremy Hunt can tell if your breasts are tuberous based on their appearance. Tubular breasts often have the following features:
Tubular breasts are a congenital deformity (birth defect) that occurs during breast tissue formation. The breasts don’t grow into their full size during puberty.
The exact cause of tuberous breast deformity is still unknown but several theories have been proposed. Scientists believe that tuberous breasts may occur when:
The only treatment for tuberous breasts is cosmetic plastic surgery. Since regular breast augmentation surgery cannot fully correct the appearance of tubular breasts, Dr Jeremy Hunt uses different reconstructive and surgical techniques to give your breasts a fuller and better look. Depending on the shape of your breasts, the amount of natural breast tissue you have, and how severe your breast deformity is, Dr Hunt may perform one of the following procedures to restore the normal shape of your breasts.
Women with a less severe form of tuberous breast deformity and enough natural breast tissue can have their puffy breasts and pointy nipples corrected without implants. This is done with what is known as a one-step tubular breast correction surgery.
During one-step tuberous breast surgery, Dr Hunt will perform the following:
This cosmetic surgery for tuberous breasts can reshape small cone-shaped breasts and puffy nipples all in one go.
Reconstructive surgery for conical breasts can add fullness to your breasts, reduce the size of enlarged areolas, and create a more natural breast shape.
In case you have a more severe type of hypoplastic breast deformity, Dr Hunt will perform two separate procedures to fix your box-shaped breasts.
A two-step tuberous breast correction surgery involves the following:
This two-step breast reconstruction procedure can fix breast asymmetry, enhance your cleavage, add volume to your breasts, and bring breasts that are too far apart closer together.
Fat grafting is a less invasive procedure that can improve the shape of tuberous breasts without surgery. This procedure is ideal for patients with less severe tubular breast deformities who do not lack too much breast tissue.
Using fat harvested from your own body, Dr Hunt will be able to sculpt your breasts into a more proportional and aesthetically pleasant shape.
During fat grafting procedure for the correction of tuberous breasts:
Breast fat grafting can fix the appearance of pointy nipples, give your breasts more volume, and accentuate your cleavage.
Another option to fix a tuberous breast appearance is composite or hybrid breast augmentation surgery also known as lipo-implant. This advanced cosmetic procedure can give your breasts good cosmetic outcomes. During a composite breast augmentation surgery, Dr Hunt uses both implants and fat grafting to substantially improve the appearance of cone-shaped or boxy breasts.
This type of cosmetic surgery isn’t just about making your breasts look bigger or perkier. It’s more complex than regular breast augmentation surgery because it involves full breast surgery to fix an anatomical deformity.
Dr Jeremy Hunt has significant experience in breast surgery and extensive knowledge of breast anatomy. He combines both his surgical skills with his profound anatomical knowledge to fully reconstruct the breasts and give them a normal shape and a better contour.
Dr Jeremy Hunt is specialist plastic surgeon performing breast, body, face and nose surgery. He is a member of FRACS & ASPS and has over 20 years of experience providing plastic surgery in Sydney.
Careful, considerate and honest, Dr Jeremy Hunt works with you to find a solution that is optimal for your body and your lifestyle. Every patient is unique and, through his guidance, can achieve good results.
Dr Hunt’s personal, one-on-one service and attention to detail has given thousands of women and men from the Sydney & Wollongong NSW area and across Australia the aesthetic results they desire.
Dr Jeremy A Hunt MBBS FRACS graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine degree from Sydney University in 1990 and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and member of ASPS – the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. He completed a Fellowship at the prestigious University of Texas in the United States, where he learnt from some of the world’s very best plastic surgeons.
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