Hundreds of teenage girls are having breast reduction operations on the NHS

• 647 women aged 15 to 18 have experienced the surgery completed around the NHS over six-year period
• Procedures cost citizen ?5,000 each
• 359 women aged within their 70s also have gone through the process

By Take advantage of Cooper

Released: 07:49 GMT, 6 This summer 2012

Questions: Dianne Abbott, the cisco kid health minister, requested whether teenage women ought to be given breast reduction procedures

100s of teenage women have experienced breast reduction procedures around the NHS, figures have revealed.

The process continues to be top quality a total waste of taxpayers' money because they are usually asked for for cosmetic reasons.

During the last six years, 647 women aged 15 to 18 have experienced the surgery completed around the NHS.

The all inclusive costs towards the citizen is about ?3.2million - with every operation costing ?5,000.

Official NHS guidance states the operation could be completed if women suffer mental distress, back pain, neck discomfort or poor posture.

Throughout the process surgeons remove, body fat, glandular tissue and skin before re-shaping the chest. The hard nips also need to be repositioned.

The operation can't be completed for purely cosmetic reasons under NHS rules.

Official figures says 359 women aged within their 70s also had the operation completed between 2006 and 2011, The Sun's Rays reported.

As a whole, 21,328 women had breast reduction surgery completed through the NHS within the period. More...

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The figures incorporated 14 women aged 15 who'd breast cutbacks, 81 women aged 16, 206 aged 17 and 346 18-year-olds.

Breast reduction op: American teen Hannah Olson, 19, who'd surgery to visit from the 36DDD to 34C. Before going through the process she'd been not able to complete sports

Additionally, there have been 358 19-year-olds who'd the process completed.

Shadow health minister Diane Abbott asked if the NHS ought to be funding the procedures.

'An dependence on physical perfection is driving women,' she told The Sun's Rays.

'Society must debate whether scarce NHS assets would be best allocated to a 15-year-old that has convinced herself her breasts are extremely large?'