As with any surgical intervention, the risks can be haemorrhages, infection and complications relating to anaesthesia. In relation to a reduction mammoplasty, although the incidence of complications in these interventions is low, the principal risks are:
- Reduction in the sensitivity of the nipple and the skin on the breasts, which may be temporary or permanent.
- The scar. Although in the majority of cases it is of satisfactory appearance, occasionally corrective surgery or other treatments are needed.
- The stitches opening up, with the most delicate point being where the two lines of the T intersect. The pressure under which they have been sutured affects this to a large degree, together with the treatment given to the tissue, particularly at the edges of the wounds.
- Small differences in size, shape and location of the breasts and nipples which, in a very small number of cases, require another intervention.
- Cutaneous necrosis, which can especially affect the areola when it has been moved a large distance, when subjected to pressure or compression or when it is a case of a free graft.
- A reduction in the ability to breastfeed. In having to move the areola-nipple a certain distance from their initial location, the galactophorous ducts must be partially disconnected, which can lead to a reduction in the ability to breastfeed. If this does not happen, breastfeeding can be undertaken without any problem whatsoever.
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