Large breasts have been associated with feminity and nurturing and also pain in the neck.   Yes, it is true.  Excessively large breasts not only hinder physical activity   but also restrict a person's choice of clothing and by their weight cause shoulder, neck and back pain.  Their weight causes bra straps to leave deep grooves on shoulders and skin underneath the pendulous breasts tends to get itchy and irritated developing into infection.  This problem can affect women of any age and even young adolescent girls too. 

Young teenage girls face severe psychological trauma when their breasts grow to disproportionate to their rest of their physical development.  They resort to painful methods of hiding it like strapping their breasts, and tend to be introverted.   Breasts can become excessively large after pregnancy and childbirth too.  These large breasts sag and nipples point downwards.  Such women find it difficult to find appropriate sized bra. They  can not fit into readymade clothes and feel very conscious about the size of the breasts.

Plastic surgery offers solution to this problem and can bring freedom from pain and improvement in posture and self -confidence in these women. 
 
Breast reduction surgery is a  plastic surgery, wherein excess breast tissue is cut out and breasts are reshaped giving youthful   and attractive size and shape proportionate to the body size.  The results are long lasting. The downside of the technique is that there will be scars on the breasts. These scars are cleverly placed on the underside of the breast so they are not visible even through lowneck dress. Scars usually fade with time.  Breast reduction surgery has a very high patient satisfaction ration.  The response from the patients is enthusiastic.  Those that have got that load off their chests feel that freedom from pain and enhanced mobility offsets whatever negative feelings  that scars generate.     

For teenage unmarried girls who choose to have this surgery, future  breast feeding may not be possible.  Yet whey they are psychologically traumatized because of their huge breasts, the benefits of surgery can out weight its disadvantages.    
 
Breast reduction surgery can also help women with asymmetrical breasts when the larger breast can be made smaller to match the smaller breast.  

Some women just want their breasts to be lifted up without reducing the size.   This can be done if breasts are not too large but are sagging due to age.   The skin tightening procedure called  "MASTROPOXY"  or "BREAST LIFT" can bring back the youthful , perky look. 

Liposuction can sometimes help to bring minor size changes in the breast.  In this procedure fat is sucked out with the help of  tube like cannulas through very small cuts, with hardly any scarring.  Unfortunately this is useful only in very minor cases and results are not very good.  The shape does not improve much though size may reduce.

Men too can suffer from the problem of enlarged breasts.  This condition is called "Gynaecomastia" or "Feminine Breasts" . Mild enlargements is quite common in teenage boys and they usually grow out of it by 18 years of age In some men large breasts persist past adolescence and may even enlarge later. Large breasts can be obvious through clothing and cause consciousness and psychological disturbances. Sometimes the cause may be a hormonal problem or due to some drugs but mostly gynaecomastia occurs without any obvious reason.  
 
There are no medications available to treat this condition.  Plastic surgery provides a permanent cure.  In some men the breasts are mostly fatty.  In these people liposuction can be done and fat sucked out with cannulas through small cuts.  In most of the men the breasts are firm and glandular and lipoposuction doesn?t work well.  In those men, with a very small cut a long the areola the whole breast tissue can be removed.  Scars usually fade out with time.

Breast reduction is a highly gratifying and popular surgery both for women and men.  Scars fade with time but the feel good factor of improved body image lasts forever.