Breast lifts, unlike breast reductions or breast augmentations, can be a great option for women who struggle with flat or drooping-shaped breasts, downward pointed nipples, stretched out skin or unevenness. The ASPS breast lift vlog takes you inside the OR with commentary from a board-certified plastic surgeon.. What is a breast lift? How does it work? And what are the benefits of this surgery?
We’ve put together this page to answer all your questions about breast lifts and help you get prepared for your consultation with a board-certified plastic surgeon. and this article explain more on how painful is breast lift recovery and what to expect after a breast lift
How Is A Breast Lift Performed Video
In some women, the breasts sag or droop and can even appear deflated and lifeless. A breast lift is designed to lift and reshape the breasts into a more youthful position on the chest. There are multiple techniques for performing this procedure; Dr. Christine Hamori discusses in detail how she performs her lifts using an anchor technique with minimal scarring.
The breast lift procedure, also called mastopexy, is designed to correct the sagging and drooping of the breasts that occur with age, with weight loss or after pregnancy.
As one of the most common cosmetic procedures, breast lift is performed to correct the sagging and drooping of the breasts that occur with age, with weight loss or after pregnancy.
The breast lift procedure, also called mastopexy, is designed to correct the sagging and drooping of the breasts that occur with age, with weight loss or after pregnancy. The breast tissue will be reshaped and resupplied into a more youthful position so that it looks fuller and perky again. This can dramatically improve your self-esteem and overall appearance in clothes.
Dr. Christine Hamori performs her breast lifts using a variety of techniques depending on the patient’s needs and goals.
In addition to using a variety of techniques, Dr. Hamori does not use cookie cutter approaches. She tailors her approach to each patient’s needs and goals.
The following are some examples of breast lift techniques:
During a breast lift, skin is removed from both the bottom portion of the breast in order to tighten the skin envelope and reshape the breast into a more youthful appearance.
During a breast lift, skin is removed from both the bottom portion of the breast in order to tighten the skin envelope and reshape the breast into a more youthful appearance
During the procedure, your surgeon will make an incision around each nipple and remove excess skin from around that area as well as from underneath it (called inframammary fold). Your surgeon will then pull up what’s left of your breast tissue so that it sits higher on your chest wall. This creates more fullness while reducing sagging of your breasts.
Finally, stitches are used to close these incisions neatly back together again once everything has been properly placed back into place
This is normal and expected.
A breast lift can be performed with minimal scarring, allowing you to return quickly to any desired activity level after surgery.
A breast lift can be performed with minimal scarring, allowing you to return quickly to any desired activity level after surgery.
Scarring is minimized by the use of a special surgical tape called Mederma, which helps prevent scar formation. This allows you to return to work after 2 weeks and exercise 4 weeks postoperatively. In general, your physician will advise against strenuous activities for 6-8 weeks. You may resume strenuous physical activity at 10 weeks postoperative; however this may depend on the patient’s underlying medical condition, her age and other factors related to healing and recovery from surgery.
Whether you have just given birth or lost a lot of weight, there are many reasons for sagging breasts.
How Painful Is Breast Lift Recovery
A breast lift or a mastopexy is an operation we perform for patients who feel as though their breast has maybe descended a little bit on their chest. The breast becomes a little more droopy or saggy, patients will say. And typically, that’s a patient who’s had one or two children, or sometimes not. Sometimes just a patient whose breast is a little bit lower on their chest wall than they’d like. And the operation to fix that, again, is a breast lift. And the way we accomplish that is with some small incisions around the areola or the nipple and then generally, at least, a vertical scar down the breast that helps us to gather the breast tissue and reposition the breast higher on the chest wall. Breast lift with a breast augmentation is a very common combination of procedures that we do. It’s usually for mothers or women who have had one or two children maybe, and at this point they notice that the breast tissue after breastfeeding, may shrink and it’s called postpartum involution. The breast gets a little smaller, in addition to moving down the chest wall. And the operation for that usually is what we call augmentation mastopexy. The way that’s done is through the same incisions; however at the same time as the breast lift, we’ll place a breast implant usually under the muscle, and then perform the breast lift on top of that. That’s a nice combination of procedures that restores some upper pole fullness or fullness to the breast higher up on the chest in addition to replacing the breast and nipple higher up on the chest wall. You know, breast augmentation — the lift — is one of those operations that patients typically are very pleased with. It seems to restore the breast back to a condition that it might have been in either prior to childbirth and breastfeeding, or just in general, a more youthful breast. Here at Gaines Plastic Surgery we have financing options available through CareCredit that will allow patients to finance the procedures that we do through this clinic, for up to six months with no interest.
What To Expect After A Breast Lift
Breast lift: Surgical techniques and scars
There are various established techniques for breast lift/uplift surgery. The choice of the right method, tailored to you, depends on your anatomy, the size of the breasts, degree of sagging, laxity of the skin, position of the nipple, etc. These factors will be addressed by your surgeon during the decision process. Furthermore, the placement of breast implants may form an integral part of the operation, in order to refill the breast, resulting in an improved shape and silhouette. Depending on your case, minimal scarring will be evident whenever possible.
Light Breast Ptosis (sagging): Scars are around the areola and, if necessary, with a vertical extension (lollipop shape).
Moderate Breast Ptosis (sagging): When a moderate degree of sagging is present, we use a vertical scar technique or with a small extension of the scar into the infra-mammary fold. The scars are, as described above, a lollipop shape, with an additional short scar in the sub-mammary fold (short anchor or inverted-T).
Severe Breast Ptosis (sagging): When a more excessive degree sagging is present, we use a vertical scar, this may need a longer extension of the scar into the infra-mammary fold forming a full-length inverted-T scar.