Articles by Topic: Breast Lift

When a qualified plastic surgeon performs your operation, both your procedure and recovery are likely to be uneventful. Even in ideal circumstances, however, complications may occur. In addition to the specific complications mentioned here, refer to Understand the Risks of Plastic Surgery for an explanation of general complications that mav occur with any procedure.

Some women optimistically and erroneously believe that breast implants will raise their droopy breasts. This is not true. Implants do increase the projection of the breast and nipple, but they do not raise the nipple higher. In some cases, breast implants can lower the breast mound and thus cause the nipple to appear relatively higher, but the actual nipple height does not change.

If you have decided that a breast lift is right for you, it is important to keep in mind the cosmetic limitations of the procedure. To avoid post surgery discontent, find out what are the limitations of the surgery before going for it.

Because loose skin causes breast droop, the treatment is to remove excess skin. The remaining, tighter skin then holds the breast in a higher position. The greater the droop, the more skin must be removed and the more extensive will be the scars. The operation also reduces nipple size for those who have undesirably large nipples.

Breast droop is an unfortunate by-product of breast size, age, gravity, and pregnancy. Each of these causes contributes to stretching of breast skin. Because breast skin is solely responsible for holding the breast in position, its laxity will give way to breast droop, also called breast ptosis (pronounced toe-sis).