Upper pole fullness

John Burns, MD answers: Achieving upper pole fullness possible with smaller breast implants?

I was told that in order to achieve upper pole fullness restoration I'd have to get breast implants with my breast lift. It was suggested that I get a lift with 175-200cc implants below the muscle.

I've seen pictures of women who had less breast tissue than me get this size and it looks like that will be too big when added to the breast tissue I already have. All I want is to restore my upper pole fullness but definitely not go up in size (34B). Most of my breast tissue is at the bottom of my breasts. If I decided to get 110-125cc instead of 175-200cc, will that possibly achieve what I'm looking for?


John Burns, MD
15 days ago

A breast lift, mastopexy, will probably make your breasts appear smaller because of the tighter skin envelope.  Although your breast tissue will be lifted by removing the excess skin (mastopexy), the size of your breast will remain constant.  Upper pole fullness would be extremely difficult to achieve with just a mastopexy because the size of the breast has not changed. 

However, breast augmentation with mastopexy is a tricky operation and has a high documented complication rate.  The safest approach in my opinion would be to stage your procedure and do the breast lift first and then come back later and do the augmentation.  This will give you the opportunity to see how you like the shape of your breasts after the mastopexy and allow the incisions to heal before subjecting them to the added pressure of an augmentation.

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