What motivates women to have a breast reduction?

I think there is a large misperception in the broader community that breast reduction is a cosmetic procedure. Whilst there is no doubt breast reduction will alter your appearance it is absolutely not a cosmetic procedure.

In my experience women considering breast reduction are very sensible, they have usually done a large amount of homework over many years before they even come along to talk about breast reduction. It is something that has been on their mind often since puberty.

Women who decide to have a breast reduction are exclusively motivated to proceed with the procedure due to physical symptoms. These symptoms are neck pain , back pain , shoulder pain, postural difficulties. In more extreme cases women will be dealing with rashes and infections in the fold underneath the breasts.

I have never performed a breast reduction for cosmetics ( or appearance based concerns). Once women start investigating breast reduction procedures they would quickly understand the risk reward analysis does not stack up if your only concern were appearance based.

Breast reduction is restorative surgery not cosmetic surgery. What we are aiming to achieve is to restore proportion so you actually have breasts that are a size which matches your other body proportions. It is only women who are significantly out of proportion to the extent they are experiencing physical symptoms who even consider a breast reduction procedure.