Bilateral breast reduction is basically a breast reduction surgery done on both breasts. While there may be reasons to do surgery on one breast only, it is rare and uncommon.
Bilateral breast reduction involves the removal of excess breast fat, glandular tissue, and skin to help you achieve a breast size proportional with the rest of your body, making you feel a lot less self-conscious about your figure.
A bilateral breast reduction is a breast reduction that’s performed on both breasts, the right, and the left breast.
It would seem obvious that if you’re doing a procedure to decrease the size of the breast, well, why would you not do both of them?
And the answer to that is: that in most cases women’s breast sizes aren’t the same.
The right and the left breast do not typically have the same volume and in a breast reduction, it’s very rare that we do only do one breast.
However, the case may arise where a young woman has had some kind o congenital deformity, or through puberty, she may have one breast that’s affected more than the other. In some cases after breastfeeding one breast may be much larger than the other depending on the babies preference.
So there are different issues or different reasons why we wouldn’t perform breast reduction on both breasts. However, that’s uncommon and in most cases yes we do bilateral both the right and the breast at the same time.
