Lateral breasts

Woman's breasts play a fundamental role in the self esteem, perception of feminity, psychological confidence, sexual sphere, gender assignment and acceptance of body morphology.

There exists a very specific type of breast with mammary settlement and location too far apart to the sides of the ribcage, and not in the center of the chest, normally associated with pigeon chest or pectum carinatum; this anatomical peculiarity has no possible treatment so the surgeon should not try to fix it, to the contrary the surgeon has to respect the unusual location of the breasts and place the implants or do the mastopexy or breast reduction well centered in the such atypical breast pocket in spite this may entail a wide cleavage gap; otherwise the surgical procedure would end in a very bad complication like cross eyed breasts and the results require future revision. Lateral breasts have higher incidence of nipple sensation loss after breast surgery since the nerves providing sensation to the breast do enter the mammary mound at the sides of the ribcage, making them prone to direct injury or compression by the implants or surgical fibrosis.