Gynecologist: One or two hands for breast exam?

Ladies,when you go for your yearly physical with your Gynecologist does he/she use one hand or two hands while checking your breasts?

My wife's gyn, who is female uses both hands. She uses 2 fingers of her right hand for the exam and places 2 fingers from her left hand on top of them. She says that my wife has dense breasts and that she needs to do it this way to check. She sent my wife to a breat specialist once to double check and he started out with 1 hand and ended up doing the same thing,

Mine, a man, uses only one hand and does a through check that lasts few minutes.

My wife's gyn uses two hands.

Since I have big breasts, he uses both hands.

My gyne and family dr has always used two hands when examining each breast.

My wife's GYN also uses 2 hands

Mine definitely always uses 2 hands

I have large tits. It's always 2 hands.

It shouldn't matter whether you have large boobies or small ones, the way I was always taught was the two handed method, and that's the way it's always been done on me, and is the way Doc does it, and I would think he should know, he does have MD behind his name, lol.

Mashie

My Wife's dr used both hands for her breast exam and he takes his time with the exam

Dr Bob

The doctor uses 2 hands while checking my wife's breasts.

My wife's gyn uses two hands.

My wife's doctor uses one hand

My gyno asked me which I preferred, and so she always uses 2 on me

My gyno does two hands..but I've had one hand during a sports physical

It depends on the position and the gyn doing it.

But mostly when I lay flat with my arm raised they use only 1 hand.

When I sit up they mostly use 2 hands on some parts. More to support/cup my breast when pressing on the upper 1/2.

Carla

Both hands, one is used for support under the breast as she does the exam. One handed in the arm pit.

I could maybe see only using one hand if a woman's breasts were small. But for larger breasts, I can't see how a thorough exam could be done unless the examiner used both of their hands. For larger breasts, it just seems that both hands would be needed.

Two hands

Two hands

My gynecologist and family doctor use both single and two hands during the breast exam, but two hands are used for most of the palpation. Single hand for palpation in the arm pit area.

Actually both...during the exam she switches between using one hand and using both hands.

My wife's doctor uses both hands as well, I guess it gives him a better feeling of her breasts and she gets a more through exam. I have actually pointed out small lumps that I feel in her breasts to him for him to take a look just to make sure they are ok, luckily they have been nothing.

Mine uses one hand. My breasts are on the smaller side, though.

Two hands usually. One for doing the pressing and the other for positioning and supporting the breast.

Two hands

Two hands

It's impossible to do a breast exam with one hand. The idea of using two is that one hand pushes breast tissue against the other. This allows nodules to be felt which after all is the object of the exercise.

While it is possible to perform a breast exam using one hand by using the the pads of three middle fingers to examine every inch of your breast tissue. By moving your fingers in small circular and regular movement to cover the entire breast, part by part. Do not lift your fingers from your breast between palpations. As most women who perform their monthly breast exam will tell you. Sometimes using a cream or wet soapy skin can aid in this .

As stated by liquidsky the reason why medical personnel use two hands:

The idea of using two is that one hand pushes breast tissue against the other. This allows nodules to be felt which after all is the object of the exercise.