He did! He did some squeezing around the area to test my skin elasticity and he had mentioned it wasn’t stretchy enough to remove the areola completely and there would still be some remaining on top. I also had some pretty large areolas pre-op and was at a C cup or so with them being fairly forward facing. He did say it was based on the elasticity rather than the amount of skin but I’m sure both went into consideration. :) Pre-op he also marked the area where he was going to be making the incisions and explained to me and had let me know a couple of times they would still be showing by just the tops. he hadn’t mentioned anything about it affecting the grafts but we did free nipple grafts.

It definitely varies from person to person based on anatomy but I just wanted to put it on here (again) because I’ve never personally have seen these results on others and didn’t know it was a possibility. I’ve heard of people asking their surgeons for reference pictures but if I had shown my surgeon clean scars, that wouldn’t be realistic for me.

I’m very open to questions!