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05.08.2020 | Editorial
Thoughts on Breast Esthetics
verfasst von:
Richard Lewin
Erschienen in:
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
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Ausgabe 4/2020
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For thousands of years, the female breast has been a symbol of sexuality, motherhood and nurture and at times it has even been used as a metaphor for the collective responsibility of the nation, during the French Revolution, for example. During the mid-1950s, Penn et al. attempted to define the perfect breast and wrote an article entitled Breast reduction, in which they examined a number of women between 18 and 39 years of age and concluded that the distance between the nipples and the sternal notch should be an equilateral triangle with a distance of 20.63 cm in an attractive breast. This work has been very important in the planning of breast reduction and mastopexy. In 2012, Mallucci et al. wrote the study entitled Concepts in aesthetic breast dimensions: Analysis of the ideal breast, in which they studied pictures of 100 topless women published in the tabloid newspaper, The Sun, and came to the conclusion that the perfect breast should have a 45:55 ratio between the upper and the lower pole of the breast. Mallucci’s study raised another question about breast esthetics: Was there a selection bias? Are the ideal proportions really 45:55 or is it a result of selection by a few people working at the tabloid? …
