Unpleasent phrase.
Someone who I vaugely know of through other people recently had some form of breast augmentation. People where describing it to me and the phrase "then they sliced away her nipples to re-attach them" cropped up.

That phrase there floated around in my brain for a while, making me shudder a bit in horror every time I remember it. I'm not a squeamish person, I realy can't be in my line of work but damn, that phrase gets to me. I mean, I know basicaly nothing about plastic surgery, but what did they do? Where the nipples partialy sliced off and left to hang slightly to one side during the operation or where they removed and kept in storage for re-attachment later? Neither of these is particuarly palletable to my mind and I realy felt that I had to share some of those horrific mental images with as many people as possible. Maybe it's just me but the whole idea churns my stomoch.

Bit of a crap one this week realy. Can't think of much to say about breasts that hasn't been covered.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Thu 6 May 2010, 14:20, 2 replies)

In the case of breast implants, a pocket is made in the breast, and the implant slipped in - the nipple is not disturbed.

In the case of disease, or radical reduction, the nipple is carefully dissected leaving the nerve and blood supply intact, then replaced, otherwise feeling is lost, and it can drop off.
(speedevil, Thu 6 May 2010, 20:31, closed)

They don't take them RIGHT off and put them in a little jar.
They remain attached to - and by - nerves and blood vessels, and they just sort of hang around in the way until they're ready to be sewn back into position. I had to cover this during my degree, even though I read Journalism. The images I saw during the research stages never left me.
(Trauma, Sat 8 May 2010, 1:03, closed)