Editing Breast enlargement

{{Short description|Techniques to increase the size of human breasts}}
'''Breast enlargement''' is the enlargement of the [[breast]]s. It may occur naturally as in [[mammoplasia]] or may occur artificially through active intervention. Many women regard their breasts, which are female [[secondary sex characteristic]]s, as important to their [[sexual attractiveness]], as a sign of [[femininity]] that is important to their [[Self-concept|sense of self]]. Due to this, when a woman considers her breasts deficient in some respect, she might choose to engage in some activity intended to enhance them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sexarchive.info/ATLAS_EN/html/secondary_characteristics.html |title=Secondary sex characteristics |publisher=.hu-berlin.de |access-date=2011-10-31}}</ref>

Actual and potential methods to achieve larger breasts include:

* Surgical [[breast augmentation]], such as with [[breast implant]]s or [[Breast augmentation#Fat grafting techniques|fat transfer]].
* Pharmacological or hormonal breast enhancement, through administration of medications such as [[estrogen (medication)|estrogen]] or [[breast enlargement supplement]]s.<ref name="GöretzlehnerLauritzen2012">{{cite book|author1=Gunther Göretzlehner|author2=Christian Lauritzen|author3=Thomas Römer|author4=Winfried Rossmanith|title=Praktische Hormontherapie in der Gynäkologie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TIs2WhfYzZ4C&pg=PA385|date=1 January 2012|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-024568-4|pages=385–}}</ref><ref name="ManselFodstad2007">{{cite book|author1=R.E. Mansel|author2=Oystein Fodstad|author3=Wen G. Jiang|title=Metastasis of Breast Cancer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=14pb5b6gT-oC&pg=PA217|date=14 June 2007|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4020-5866-0|pages=217–}}</ref><ref name="pmid9610425">{{cite journal | vauthors = Hartmann BW, Laml T, Kirchengast S, Albrecht AE, Huber JC | title = Hormonal breast augmentation: prognostic relevance of insulin-like growth factor-I | journal = Gynecol. Endocrinol. | volume = 12 | issue = 2 | pages = 123–7 | year = 1998 | pmid = 9610425 | doi = 10.3109/09513599809024960}}</ref>
* Increasing the [[Food energy|food energy intake]] by eating more and/or more energetic foods. By increasing food energy intake, more [[adipose tissue]] will be created, part of which will consist of adipose tissue located near the breast area.<ref>{{cite journal| pmid=7416252 | doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330530113 | volume=53 | issue=1 | title=Contribution of breast volume and weight to body fat distribution in females | date=July 1980 | journal=Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. | pages=93–100 | last1 = Katch | first1 = VL | last2 = Campaigne | first2 = B | last3 = Freedson | first3 = P | last4 = Sady | first4 = S | last5 = Katch | first5 = FI | last6 = Behnke | first6 = AR| url = https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/37602/1/1330530113_ftp.pdf | hdl = 2027.42/37602 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> The amount of adipose tissue that will be added to the breasts varies from person to person and is controlled by the [[KLF14]] gene.<ref>{{cite journal| pmc=3192952 | pmid=21572415 | doi=10.1038/ng.833 | volume=43 | issue=6 | title=Identification of an imprinted master trans regulator at the KLF14 locus related to multiple metabolic phenotypes | date=June 2011 | journal=Nat. Genet. | pages=561–4 | last1 = Small | first1 = KS | last2 = Hedman | first2 = AK | last3 = Grundberg | first3 = E |display-authors=et al}}</ref> Additional modification of the KLF14 gene can thus make sure even more of the adipose tissue increase will occur at the breasts. 
* Mechanical breast enhancement.<ref name="SchlenzKaider2007">{{cite journal|last1=Schlenz|first1=Ingrid|last2=Kaider|first2=Alexandra|title=The Brava External Tissue Expander: Is Breast Enlargement without Surgery a Reality?|journal=Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery|volume=120|issue=6|year=2007|pages=1680–1689|issn=0032-1052|doi=10.1097/01.prs.0000267637.43207.19|pmid=18040206|s2cid=45740913 }}</ref>

Ineffective methods to achieve larger breasts include:

* [[Mark Eden bust developer]], a fraudulently marketed method and device.

==See also==
* [[Breast augmentation]]
* [[Breast reduction]]
* [[Reconstructive surgery]]
* [[Penis enlargement]]

==References==
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[[Category:Breast]]