It is commonly thought that women undergo breast augmentations to correct the size of their breasts. The conventional wisdom is that women have breast augmentation mostly for vanity, but many women suffer from serious malformities in their breasts that can cause them severe anxiety and self-consciousness in all situations requiring undress, from public showers to changing rooms to intimate relations. For these women, even looking at themselves in the mirror becomes an unhappy event, and can lead to serious depression and low self-esteem, but breast augmentation can be used to correct a number of serious breast deformities to let women live a normal life without such a high degree of self-consciousness.

Tubular Breasts

Tubular breasts are characterized by narrow bases, often high on the chest wall. The breasts, though narrow, sometimes have a significant amount of tissue, which extends forward, but, unable to support itself, shows a high degree of ptosis (sagging). In addition, these often have unusually large areola, which are distended outward by a protrusion of the breast tissue under the nipple.

Inexpert augmentation of this kind of breast can lead to a phenomenon known as double-bubble, or double-breast where the breast tissue sits visibly atop the implant, but a skilled cosmetic surgeon can correct this malformity by reshaping the breast using a donut mastopexy (breast lift), a reduction of the areola, and a reshaping of the breast tissue to give a more natural, pyramidic shape to the breast.

Downward Pointing Breasts

In many cases, downward pointing breasts may just be the result of ptosis of the breast, and can be corrected using a breast lift, with or without augmentation. However, in some women, downward pointing breasts are the result of a prominence of the upper chest wall. This women can achieve a good shape of the breast following augmentation if high profile implants are used that can sit in the midchest, under the prominent upper chest protrusion, balancing the breast and making it more natural in shape.

Divergent Breasts

Women with divergent breasts have a hard time achieving good cleavage in most outfits. The separation of the breasts can make them appear even smaller than they are, especially impacting their projection in front of the chest bone. For these women, breast augmentation can bring the breasts closer together and reposition the nipples, giving a more normal, appealing shape.

Breast Asymmetry

Many women have breasts that are uneven, with one significantly larger than the other. Breast augmentation can correct this disparity between breasts. In addition, a breast lift can be used to correct breasts that are positioned differently on the chest wall.

If you have breasts whose shape is far outside what is considered normal, and this causes you anxiety or self-consciousness, you do not have to suffer. Breast augmentation is not simply a cosmetic procedure, but can be a corrective for many developmental variations of the breast that are seen as aesthetic defects.