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Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery

Reduction Mammoplasty/Breast Reduction

The keyhole pattern (or pattern of Wise), skin incisions are used to remove not only extra skin, but to remove extra glandular tissue in order to lift the breast and make it smaller. Extra skin vertically makes the breast sag more. Extra skin horizontally makes the breast wider and flatter. The incisions encircle the nipple and pass from the bottom of the nipple to the breast fold underneath and run along the breast fold.