If you've had a mastectomy and get plastic surgery can you?


Question:
still breast feed or have feeling in your breasts.

Answers:
A very radical mastectomy means that most or all the tissue and glands from that breast were removed. Which means there's nothing in there to produce milk. Although sometimes mastectomies can be partial, but still it means tissue and glands removal, which definitely affects nipple sensitivity.

Implants, not as a reconstructive means after mastectomy, but just as a cosmetic procedure often cause sensitivity loss, but depending on the way they're inserted, over or below the muscle, can allow breastfeeding. All cases are individual, and it's always best to consult a physician.
I would assume breastfeeding would be out of the question since I think mastectomies remove all the breast tissue required to produce breast milk. With any surgery it will leave scar tissue (some is inside where you can see it in this case) so you might have feeling left but obviously with any surgery it's never the same amount of feeling as before. Sensitivity to touch is affected.


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