Breast Surgery

Get the Facts About Breast Augmentation

An implant is placed under your breast - or under your breast and chest muscles - to reshape and increase your breast size. Both silicone and saline implants are available. Breast augmentation can help you if you feel uncomfortable with the size of your breasts or if you are dissatisfied with their appearance. Breast augmentation will enlarge small breasts, correct asymmetrical breasts or correct loss of breast volume after nursing.

What to Expect with a Breast Lift

This procedure rearranges breast tissue by removing extra skin and elevating the nipple areolar complex. Breast shape and size change when patients choose to undergo both augmentation and lift.

Know Your Options After Mastectomy

This is most often done when you have been treated for breast cancer. It can be done simultaneously with cancer surgery or later on. There are multiple ways to reconstruct a breast, which can include nipple tattooing, and you need to make this decision with your surgeon on what is best for you.

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Understand Microvascular Breast Reconstruction

This procedure uses your own body tissue from the abdomen, back, thighs or buttocks to reconstruct the breast after a mastectomy. The tissue is transplanted into the chest and reconnects the blood vessels to new ones in the chest region.

Reduce the Size of Your Breasts

This removes portions of breast tissue and skin. Then it elevates the nipple areolar complex. This procedure can be cosmetic and can be covered by health insurance if you suffer from back, neck and shoulder pain as a result of heavy breasts.

You Have Choices in Reconstruction Surgery

When thinking about breast reconstruction, it is important to keep a number of factors in mind. First, you have options. If it's your initial diagnosis, your options may be guided by your starting point. Consider these questions:

• Do you have small or large breasts?
• Are they symmetrical?
• Do your breasts drop?
• Has your surgeon given you the option of sparing the nipple?
• What size do you want to be?

Other factors include the location of the tumor or tumors in the breast and whether you know in advance if you will need radiation.

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Get Breast Care from Screening Onward

Edith Sanford Breast Center is a place where mothers, daughters, sisters and neighbors can turn for a compassionate, personalized experience at every moment. We not only provide a comprehensive range of services, but we show women - and their loved ones - what it truly means to be cared for by an expert team.

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Think About Your Breast Health Year-Round

October gets all the buzz. Pink is everywhere you look. But that one month in the fall isn't the only time to think about your breast health. It is important to remember the benefits of receiving an annual mammogram far outweigh any perceived risk that might be associated with it.

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Meet Charlene Siddens

When Charlene Siddens discovered a lump in her breast, she wasn't too worried. Then she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She and her Sanford Health care team created a plan that worked for her, including chemo and a mastectomy.

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