Are you still struggling with nipple retraction? Experts teach you how to correct it this way

Breasts are particularly important for women, and their maintenance is also crucial. We also experience nipple retraction in our daily lives, which requires timely and reasonable correction.

The hazards of nipple retraction

1. Impact on breastfeeding function: During pregnancy, a new mother's breasts secrete milk, which can make the breasts more swollen, worsen nipple depression, and make breastfeeding more difficult.

2. Impact on sexual desire: The nipple is a very important sexual sensitive point for women, and many women's sexual desire is achieved through nipple stimulation. Once the nipple is depressed, it is difficult to exert effective sexual stimulation and may even affect the man's sexual desire.

3. Easy to cause mastitis: nipple depression is difficult to clean locally due to being trapped under the areola skin and not protruding from the areola plane. The sunken area is prone to dirt and often causes local infection. The breast duct is also connected to the depression, and inflammation can spread into the breast, causing mastitis. Therefore, it should be corrected.

4. Causing breast diseases: nipple retraction can lead to poor milk discharge in pregnant women, leading to breast duct obstruction, milk accumulation, and susceptibility to acute mastitis and breast abscess. If a mother never breastfeeds, it can also increase the chance of developing breast tumors;

5. Impact on aesthetics: The most intuitive manifestation of nipple retraction is the loss of proper curves and the loss of female breast fitness.

6. Causing psychological burden: Long term anxiety, worry, and lack of confidence in one's own body seriously affect women's mental health.

Correction and treatment of inverted nipple

1. Surgical correction of nipple recession: Moderate to severe nipple recession should be treated with surgery. Surgical correction of nipple depression is a minimally invasive correction method with a variety of surgical methods, and obvious surgical scars can be selected based on the degree of depression. The possibility of recurrence is low, and breastfeeding function can be maintained. Surgery is usually performed under local anesthesia, with three to four radial incisions made in the areola. The inverted nipple is released, repositioned, and fixed through micro incisions, ensuring a good shape of the nipple after surgery and making it larger. The method of correcting nipple depression is complex, and preoperative communication is necessary. The common surgical methods are as follows:

(1) The nipple was also reconstructed using the flap method. This method provides a large amount of tissue, good blood circulation, good sensation recovery, and can maintain a certain height and straightness of the nipple. It can also be filled with dermal scar tissue and tissue substitutes to increase the protrusion of the nipple.