Category: breast lift

Case Study: Full Breast Lifts To Uplift and Reshape Sagging Breasts

Background: Sagging of the breasts is an almost expected sequelae for most women as they go through life. The effects of gravity and body changes of pregnancy and weight loss will make just about any breast mound drop. This is particularly so when one starts out with some significant breast volume making it very prone Read More…

Case Study: Full Anchor Pattern Breast Lifts

Background: A change in a woman’s breasts is an assured phenomenon over her lifetime. Through pregnancies, weight gain/loss and gravity, breasts usually drop or sag with age. The amount of sag is often exaggerated by the concomitant loss of breast volume as well. While many women want larger breasts, just as many want or need Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review – Refine Soft Tissue Suspension System

The ideal youthful breast has fullness in the upper pole, does not sag, and has a slightly pendulous lower pole. The slope of the upper pole should be slightly convex, straight, or slightly concave. With time, and gravity, many women lose that nice fullness in the upper pole, aging the breast and making it less Read More…

Case Study: Breast Implant Revision and Lift for Recurrent Capsular Contractures

Background: While breast augmentation will produce an immediate and significant change in the size of the breasts, it is important to remember that it does so with the implantation of a medical device. As such there are always the risk of complications with any implanted device. One of the most well known complication risks of Read More…

Case Study: The Pseudolifting Effect of Breast Implants

Background: There is a common perception that an implant can lift up a sagging breast. The reality is that nothing could be further from the truth. In most cases of sagging breasts (breast ptosis) an implant will actually making the breast shape worse. It will fill out the upper pole of the breast while having Read More…

Case Study: Superior Crescent Nipple Lifts in Breast Augmentation

Background: One of the most vexing problems in breast augmentation for the plastic surgeon is the women with breasts that has some sagging. No woman electively wants the scars from a breast lift unless their breasts have severe sagging and even they know it is an unavoidable issue. It is the women that wants only Read More…

The Timing of Mommy Makeovers after Pregnancy

Just like the process of pregnancy, recovering from it is also a function of time. Stretched out abdominal skin and muscles and engorged breasts will not instantly snap back into what they were. At the least it is a period of months before a woman’ s body has any chance of returning to its pre-pregnancy Read More…

Case Study: Breast Lift with a Little Reduction

Background: Breast reshaping surgery includes three basic manuevers, making the breast smaller (reduction), uprighting a saggy breast (lift) or adding volume.(implant vs. fat injections) They can be done alone or in almost any combination depending upon the patient’s aesthetic breast desires. Breast reduction surgery is very common and extremely effective at not only reshaping the Read More…

The Need for Revisional Surgery in Combined Breast Lifts with Implants

It has been a repeated mantra of mine that the ultimate cosmetic breast reshaping operation, a combined breast lift with implants, has a high rate of ‘complications’ or need for revision. It is something that I repeatedly counsel women on before surgery. My stated rate of revisional surgery in augmentation mastopexy patients is potentially Read More…

The History of Breast Lift Surgery

Cosmetic reshaping of the female breast is a collection of well known procedures such as implants and various forms of lifting and reduction. These breast procedures are so well accepted that it seems they have been around forever. But this is largely a cultural perception as what we know today or grew up with always Read More…