Hypotrophie et ptôse mammaire

Hypotrophic breast treatment with implants achieves great success, specially in France, with about 30,000 implants for 2003, most of them for aesthetic indications. Beside augmentation alone - the most frequent - hypotrophy may be associated with a ptosis to be corrected by a cutaneous reduction procedure: without correction, the patient would be exposed to an imperfect or non adapted result. Nevertheless, patients have to be strictly informed on the localization of scars and the related risks.