Wear the right bra to avoid breast surgery, BMA advises
Date: 19/06/2007 09:14:02
Thousands of women could save themselves the pain of going under the surgeon's knife for breast reduction procedures - if they started to wear the right bra.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has claimed that the NHS should provide women with free bra fittings to reduce the number of women having cosmetic surgery unnecessarily.
It claims that bra fitting should be the first step in NHS referrals for breast reduction operations - one of the most common cosmetic surgery procedures carried out by the NHS.
According to figures from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps), over 3,200 people paid to have private breast reduction surgery last year - up 19 per cent on the previous year.
A motion presented to a recent meeting of the BMA stated: "This meeting believes many women requesting breast reduction surgery are wearing bra sizes several sizes too small and that the services of bra-fitters should be made available on the NHS as the first step in the referral for breast reduction surgery."
According to figures, nine in ten women do not wear the correct size of bra, while 22 per cent admit to never having been measured.
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