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Improve Your Confidence With Cosmetic Breast Surgery
If you’re unhappy with the shape, size, or appearance of your breasts, cosmetic breast surgery may help you achieve the results you’re looking for. UConn Health offers aesthetic plastic surgery services to shape, lift, and augment your breasts.
With the latest technology, a beautiful facility designed for your comfort, and a variety of services available, UConn Health’s expert plastic surgeons take a personalized, skilled, and artful approach to cosmetic and reconstructive surgical services for the breasts.
Together with your surgeon, you’ll explore the best options for your desired outcomes, whether that’s breast augmentation, a breast lift to raise and support your breasts, breast reduction to help you achieve a breast size proportionate with your body, breast reduction for men, or transmasculine top surgery for gender-affirming care.
Achieve the look you desire with cosmetic breast surgery from a board-certified or board-eligible plastic surgeon and caring support team at UConn Health.
Breast Procedure Services & Specialties
Breast Augmentation
If you’d like your breast volume restored after pregnancy or weight loss, want to make uneven breasts the same size, or are looking for larger, fuller breasts, breast augmentation surgery may be right for you.
Breast augmentation can:
- Increase fullness of your breasts
- Improve the balance of your figure
- Enhance your self-image and confidence
Breast Lift
Rejuvenate your figure with a breast profile that is more youthful and uplifted. A breast lift raises the breasts by removing excess skin and tightening the surrounding tissue to reshape and support the new breast contour. These changes and loss of skin elasticity can result from:
- Aging
- Breastfeeding
- Gravity
- Heredity
- Pregnancy
- Weight fluctuations
Breast Reduction
Alleviate the discomfort of overly large breasts, including back and neck pain, grooving in the shoulders from bra straps, rashes, breathing problems, and low self-esteem.
Breast reduction surgery removes excess breast fat, glandular tissue, and skin to achieve a breast size in proportion with your body. Breast reduction surgery is often accompanied by lifting and reshaping the breasts, improving the appearance of cumbersome, drooping breasts, and creating a more balanced figure.
Breast reduction surgery is not recommended for women who intend to breastfeed, since many milk ducts are removed in the process.
Breast Reduction for Men (Gynecomastia)
If you are uncomfortable or self-conscious about the appearance of your chest or avoid certain activities because you are afraid to show your chest, male breast reduction is an option to consider.
Male breast reduction is an effective treatment for gynecomastia, or enlarged male breasts, that has long lasting, if not permanent, results. This cosmetic surgery procedure removes excess fat and glandular tissue to restore a flatter, firmer, and more masculine contour to the chest.
Gynecomastia can present at any age, and male breast reduction can be performed safely and successfully, offering dramatic, near immediate improvements with minimal scarring for teenagers and adult men alike. Following this surgery, patients often report an increased sense of self-confidence.
Transmasculine Top Surgery
With transmasculine top surgery, or masculinizing chest surgery, the breast tissue is removed from both breasts to create a masculine or nonbinary appearance to the chest. It is a highly individualized procedure that is undertaken during the transition process to help better align a person's body with their gender identity. Your surgeon will work with you to understand your specific wants and needs, evaluate your general health status and any pre-existing health conditions or risk factors, and develop a plan to help achieve the desired results.
Top surgery can be a good option for an individual who:
- Has been diagnosed with persistent gender dysphoria
- Has been under the care of a mental health professional who can provide a letter of recommendation supporting the decision to undergo surgery
- Has been living as a member of the desired gender
- Is of age to consent
- Has a positive outlook and realistic expectations
If significant medical or mental health concerns exist, they must be reasonably well-controlled.
Related Topics
National Website
Explore resources and education related to cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
- Discover more details about breast augmentation
- Get more information on breast lift surgery
- Read up on breast reduction
- Find out more about breast reduction for men
- Learn more about transmasculine top surgery