Breast Augmentation & Breast Lift

What is Breast Augmentation surgery?

Breast augmentation surgery (Mammaplasty) uses implants to fulfill your desire for fuller breasts or to restore breast volume lost after weight reduction or pregnancy. Implants also may be used to reconstruct a breast after mastectomy or injury.

Before and after

If you are dissatisfied with your breast size, breast augmentation surgery (either breast enhancement or breast enlargement) is a choice to consider. Breast augmentation can:

  • Increase fullness and projection of your breasts

  • Improve the balance of your figure

  • Enhance your self-image and self-confidence

Many patients find it helpful to review breast augmentation before and after photos.

What it won't do

Breast augmentation does not correct severely drooping breasts. If you want your breasts to look fuller and to be lifted due to sagging, a breast lift may be required in conjunction with breast augmentation.

Breast lifting can often be done at the same time as your augmentation or may require a separate operation. Your plastic surgeon will assist you in making this decision.

Is it right for me?

Breast augmentation is a highly individualized procedure and you should do it for yourself, not to fulfill someone else's desires or to try to fit any sort of ideal image. It may be a good option for you if:

  • You are physically healthy

  • You have realistic expectations

  • Your breasts are fully developed

  • You are bothered by the feeling that your breasts are too small

  • You are dissatisfied with your breasts losing shape and volume after pregnancy, weight loss, or with aging

  • Your breasts vary in size or shape

  • One or both breasts failed to develop normally

Where is it performed?

Breast augmentation is routinely performed on an out-patient basis at a fully accredited outpatient surgery center.

What to expect

Post-operative drains are usually not required. Rarely a temporary drain may be left in place, which is then easily removed in the office during a post-operative visit. Post-operative scarring is rarely visible. Multiple international studies on breast implants have proven that breast implants are safe and reliable. Findings of these studies concluded that breast implants do not cause breast cancer or any other systemic disease. Over 90% of women report no compromise in nipple sensation following breast augmentation. Although it is very unlikely, breast implants can rupture. A ruptured breast implant is easily removed and replaced with a new one. This does not generally cause any long-term complications.

Anesthesia and Medication

Breast augmentation does not necessarily require general anesthesia. General anesthesia is recommended, however, if the breast implants are to be placed beneath the chest wall muscle.

Breast Lift

What is Breast Lift surgery?

Breast lift, or mastopexy surgery, raises and firms the breasts by removing excess skin and tightening the surrounding tissue to reshape and support the new breast contour.

Enhancing your appearance with a breast lift

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

  • Weight fluctuations

  • Aging

  • Gravity

  • Heredity

Sometimes the areola becomes enlarged over time, and a breast lift will reduce this as well. A breast lift can rejuvenate your figure with a breast profile that is youthful and uplifted.

What breast lifts won't do

Breast lift surgery does not significantly change the size of your breasts or round out the upper part of your breast. If you want your breasts to look fuller, consider breast lift and augmentation surgery. If you want smaller breasts, consider combining breast lift and reduction surgery.

Is it right for me?

Breast lift surgery is a highly individualized procedure and you should do it for yourself, not to fulfill someone else's desires or to try to fit any sort of ideal image.

A breast lift is a good option for you if:

  • You are physically healthy and maintain a stable weight

  • You do not smoke

  • You have realistic expectations

  • You are bothered by the feeling that your breasts sag, have lost shape and volume

  • Your breasts have a flatter, elongated shape or are pendulous

  • When unsupported, your nipples fall below the breast crease

  • Your nipples and areolas point downward

  • You have stretched skin and enlarged areolas

  • One breast is lower than the other

Where is it performed?

Breast lift surgery is routinely performed on an out-patient basis in a fully accredited outpatient surgery center.

What to expect

Post-operative drains are not necessarily required. If drains are used, they are removed easily in the office during a post-operative visit. Although this procedure will result in a visible scar, the surgical scars are placed underneath the lower parts of the breasts and are hidden from view. Breast lift surgery involves re-contouring and reshaping the breast tissue only. The breast muscle itself will not be suspended upward.

Anesthesia and Medication

This procedure is frequently performed under local anesthesia with sedation or general anesthesia.