Breast Lift

Breast lift (mastopexy) is a common breast enhancement procedure that helps raise and reshape sagging breasts. Breast lift can be performed with or without breast augmentation with breast implants, depending on your anatomy and aesthetic goals.

A woman's breasts often change over time, losing their youthful shape and firmness. These changes and loss of skin elasticity can result from, pregnancy, breastfeeding, gravity, aging, weight fluctuations, and heredity.

Breast Lift with Implants

Sometimes, Breast Lift is combined with a Breast Augmentation procedure to restore breasts to a fuller and enhanced appearance.

Breast Lift Combined With Breast Reduction

The aim of lifting the breasts while reducing their size to a more proportionate one. One alternative to a Breast Lift is a Nipple Lift alone. While this will not raise the breast 

After Breast Lift Surgery

Because skin is removed and tissue is moved around, the breasts will be bruised, sore and swollen after your breast lift. You can expect to wear bandages or a surgical bra for several days. There may be some pain, but it can be treated with a prescription medication. After the bandages have been removed, you  may wear an athletic or support bra until the swelling subsides. Stitches are normally removed in stages within a week or two after the procedure.

Heavy lifting or straining should be avoided because this can cause the breasts to swell. You can usually return to work within a week and to full activity within a month. Sensation in your nipples may be reduced temporarily, but it usually returns as your breasts heal. Breast-feeding is unaffected after most breast lift surgeries because the connecting glandular tissue of the nipple and areola are left intact during the procedure.

Degrees of Sagging Breast:

• Mild Ptosis - where the nipple is at the level of the Inframammary Fold.

• Moderate Ptosis - where the nipples have dropped below the level of the breast crease but are still higher than that of most of the breast mount.

• Advanced Ptosis - where the nipples have dropped below the level of the Inframammary Fold and are just at the level of the maximum breast projection.

• Severe Ptosis - where the nipples have dropped below the level of the Inframammary Fold, and below the breast mount, so they are pointing to the floor.

Breasts Lift Techniques:

• The "lollipop lift" involves one incision around the perimeter of the areola and another that runs vertically from the areola to the breast crease.

• During a "donut lift," your surgeon crafts an incision around the perimeter of the areola. This technique is also called a peri-areolar lift or a "Benelli" lift.

• A "crescent lift" involves an incision just along the upper half of the areola and is usually done with breast augmentation. A "scarless" breast lift involves tiny incisions and the use of a long, flexible tube with a lighted camera (endoscope).

• An anchor lift involves making a scar around the areola nipple complex, a vertical scar from the areola nipple complex down to the inframammary fold, and also a semi-inner incision under the breast fold which looks like an anchor.