Hello, my daughter 16 has been struggling for years with very large breasts. We were referred to a surgeon who said we are a great candidate for a reduction. Reductions can be done at any age as long as the patient and parent are informed and understand that breast feeding will be an issue, scarring is guaranteed, and sensation may be lost permanently. And this is determined to be for medical reasons and not cosmetic ones. You will need to find a participating surgeon in your insurance panel and you should be able to schedule an appointment. Otherwise you can do this cosmetically and and there are plenty of surgeons who can help in this scenario so shop around for best prices. Breast reductions can be done on teenagers. You are best to find a local surgeon to take care of her.
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For her eighteenth birthday, Mackenzie Langan wanted people to know her as something other than the girl with the big breasts. The teenager from Cape Cod—whose experience was chronicled in a recent episode of Nightline —underwent a double breast reduction surgery to take her G-cup chest down to a C size. Her bra size kept going up and up. Then her breasts started causing her back pain, rib pain and sores. She got a lot of unwanted attention from boys on the bus ride to school. Mackenzie started to hate her body and I was worried as a parent about her developing an eating disorder. It was obviously a health issue. It was a parenting struggle.
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I was sitting topless on crinkly paper in a room with white walls and toothpaste-green privacy curtains hanging from the ceiling to separate the hospital beds. Were doctors supposed to say that? I was 18 and getting a breast reduction, or medically, a reduction mammoplasty. Together, my 34DDs weighed in at more than four pounds, a heavy burden for my five-foot-one frame. Regardless of the negative effects of macromastia, the medical term for excessively large breasts, insurance providers consider it a cosmetic operation unless patients meet a lengthy list of symptoms—all physical, none psychological—and many require doctors to try fitting patients with a better bra and other therapeutic measures before resorting to surgery.
Research shows some girls with the condition have physical pain, lower self-esteem. MONDAY, July 16, HealthDay News — For many teen girls, an overly large cup size may not be such a good thing, with many reporting serious discomfort both physically and emotionally because of their large breasts. According to a new study, for some, these issues are troubling enough for them to seek breast-reduction surgery.
