The centre of the breast, planned with honesty — nipple and areola surgery at a tertiary hospital.
The nipple and areola service of Chongqing West District Hospital plans reconstruction after mastectomy, 3D medical tattooing, nipple reduction, inverted nipple correction and areola reshaping around proportion, function and realistic expectations — with tertiary-hospital anesthesia and safety behind every operation.
Reconstruction creates the appearance of a nipple, not a functioning one. We will tell you plainly what will last, what may fade, and what cannot be guaranteed.
- Evidence-based care
- Analysis before design
- Honest risk and benefit discussions
- Tertiary-hospital safety net
Nipple-areola surgery that respects function and proportion
Whether a complex is rebuilt after mastectomy, a nipple shortened, an inversion released, or colour restored by tattooing, every plan follows the same three principles.
Analyze & design
Structured assessment of size, shape, colour, position and sensation, with measurements and photographs — and an honest statement of what the operation can and cannot change. The left and right sides are compared, because asymmetry is usually the real complaint.
Operate safely
Real operations deserve real safety: hospital-grade anesthesia, laboratory and imaging workup, sterile technique, and the intensive-care backup of a tertiary general hospital. This holds for the small operations too — a graft or flap that fails is a surgical problem, not a minor one.
Recover & refine
Healing is staged and honest: swelling resolves over weeks, scars mature over months, and the result is judged at six to twelve months. Medical tattooing and any touch-up are planned into the timeline from the beginning rather than treated as a surprise.
Dedicated specialists within a tertiary hospital
The leadership team of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center brings together specialists in aesthetic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, skin and laser care, and dermatology, with the full safety net of a tertiary general hospital behind every operation.
Tongchun Mao, MD (毛彤春)
Aesthetic Surgery · Deputy Director
Deputy Director and head of aesthetic surgery, and lead of this site’s surgical content; nipple-areola reconstruction, reduction and reshaping, and natural refinement across 700+ operations a year.
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Shaoliang Wang, MD (王韶亮)
Plastic Surgery · Center Director
Center Director; complex case support, correction of failed cosmetic surgery, and the tertiary-hospital operating theatre and ICU behind every aesthetic operation, with 20+ years of surgical experience.
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Ke He, MD (何锞)
Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Deputy Director
Head of skin and laser aesthetics; optimizes skin quality before and after surgery and leads scar and pigment aftercare, with 20+ years of laser and injectable dermatology experience.
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Yongbo Jia, MD (贾勇波)
Dermatology · Deputy Director
Head of dermatology; manages the skin health that surgical results depend on — preoperative assessment and postoperative skin care — trained at the Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
View profile →Nipple and areola surgery, explained honestly
Start with the basics: what each operation can and cannot achieve, the scars and downtime it costs, how it may affect sensation and breastfeeding, and what honest follow-up looks like.
The Nipple-Areola Complex
The anatomy of the nipple-areola complex, why its size, shape, colour and position matter so much, and how pregnancy, ageing and surgery change it over a lifetime.
Read the guide →Nipple-Areola Reconstruction
How a nipple and areola are rebuilt after mastectomy: when reconstruction should happen relative to the breast mound, the techniques that create projection, and why the result is an appearance rather than a function.
Read the guide →3D Nipple and Areola Tattooing
Medical micropigmentation of the nipple and areola: what it can realistically achieve, how long it lasts, why it usually needs repeating, and how it fits with surgical reconstruction.
Read the guide →Nipple Reduction
Nipple reduction for a long or prominent nipple: what the operation does, the techniques available, what it costs in sensation and breastfeeding, and how durable the result is.
Read the guide →Inverted Nipple Correction
Inverted nipples explained: the three grades, why the duct-preserving technique matters if you plan to breastfeed, the real risk of recurrence, and what correction can and cannot achieve.
Read the guide →Areola Reduction and Reshaping
Areola reduction and reshaping: how a wide or irregular areola is corrected, how size and shape asymmetry is assessed, and what the scars and the long-term result actually look like.
Read the guide →We will not sell you certainty we do not have
No surgeon can promise that a reconstructed nipple will keep its projection, that sensation will return, that a scar will be invisible, or that one operation will solve everything. Anyone who does is not giving you honest medical advice. Our job is to help you make a well-informed decision — even when that decision is to wait, or to do less.
Ready to discuss your surgical questions?
Reach out for a consultation. We will assess the nipple-areola complex, explain what each operation can and cannot change, and plan surgery, reconstruction or tattooing with you.
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