How is a breast lift
Breast Augmentation or Breast Lift?
how do you then know and how do you then
express to the patient whether they need
breast augmentation surgery or a breast
lift right so a breast lift is performed
to correct ptosis ptosis is sagging of
the breast and ptosis involves very
often loss of volume and it also
involves excess skin either from volume
loss or from expansion of the skin with
pregnancy or weight gain and a failure
of that skin to contract again so if
there's a very small amount of excess
skin and a minimal degree of ptosis or
sagging of the breast and only a minimal
descent of the nipple areolar complex
sometimes that can be corrected with
placement of an implant only and that's
the preference because there's less
scarring so if we can achieve the shape
and restore the volume with an implant
alone we'll do that
at times though there's too much ptosis
there's too much excess skin and the
nipple has descended too far and in
those cases we have to tailor the skin
and that involves more incisions and
more scarring the minimum breast lift
involves a scar around the full
circumference of the areola and larger
breast lifts are going to involve the
incision around the areola as well as a
vertical incision extinct from the
areola to the fold at the bottom of the
breast and then even larger lift
procedures will involve an incision in a
scar along the fold at the bottom of the
breast
