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Breast Lift (Mastopexy) Surgery

If your breasts are sagging due to age or pregnancy and breastfeeding, you may think the answer is breast augmentation. Think again. You may really need breast lift surgery in addition to augmentation, or even just a breast lift alone. Putting a breast implant in a severely sagging breast without a lift is not a good idea. You will just end up with larger breasts that are sagging even more.

Another word for sagging is ptosis and a sagging breast is referred to as ptotic. Mastopexy is the medical name for breast lift surgery. It incorporates excision of excess skin and resuturing the remaining skin and tissue to literally lift the breast back up and give it a more youthful appearance. There are several types of breast lifts and they vary in how much lift they can give you and what kind of breast lift scars you will be left with.

Are You a Good Candidate For Mastopexy?

You must be in good health, not have any active diseases or pre-existing medical conditions and must have realistic expectations of the outcome of your breast lift surgery. Clear communication with your surgeon is crucial. You must tell your surgeon what you want if he or she is to understand how you want to look. Talk with your surgeon so that you both reach an understanding of what can realistically be expected.

If your sagging breasts are due to pregnancy and breastfeeding and you are planning to have more children, it is a good idea to put off having a breast lift until you are done. Pregnancy and breastfeeding will undo the effects of the surgery and waste your time and money.

Most mastopexy procedures are performed under light sleep sedation or general Anesthesia. You can find out more at our All About Anesthesia Page.

Breast Lift with Breast Augmentation

A breast augmentation combined with a breast lift will usually leave you with more scars than a breast augmentation alone, unless you are having a very minimal breast lift surgery. More scarring is unavoidable when your breasts are seriously ptotic.

The oldest form of breast lift is the anchor lift—called that because the scar looks like an anchor—and it is still used for breasts that are seriously drooping. However, there are other options for mastopexy now, and the breast lift scars may not be as pronounced as with the anchor lift. These include the crescent lift, the Benelli Lift, and the Benelli-Lollipop lift. All of these mastopexy procedures can include breast augmentation. For more information, go to our sister site BreastLift4You.com.

With good after care and the many types of scar-minimizing products such as silicone sheeting that are available, your breast lift scars can be barely visible once they have fully healed.