Does breast lifting alone leave suture marks and scars?

Any incision will leave a scar. Plastic surgeons are trained to make those scars as invisible as possible, but all surgery results in scarring.  Doing a breast lift usually involves moving the nipple and areola to a place higher on the breast, so there will at least be a scar around the areola, often... more

While there are many different types of breast lift techniques, and while some have more scars than others, all entail at least some scarring.  Even with modern plastic surgery techniques, scarring is inevitable with surgery.  Sorry.

Breast lift becomes necessary when the nipple has descended below the fold under the breast. The degree to which the nipple has descended will determine the type of mastopexy or lift needed. The lift may involve a scar round the nipple, around the nipple and down to the fold, or in severe instances a 'T'... more

Hi Farnie - Unfortunately, a breast lift does leave scars.  it's a great procedure, but the scarring can't be avoided.  The lift can be done with incisions around the areola alone, around the areola and with a vertical incision, or with incisions around the areola, vertically, and horizontally under... more

Hi, Any time a surgeon makes an incision, it leaves a scar. Our goal as plastic surgeons is to leave scars which are cosmetically acceptable.  Many different incisions are used for breast lift, but they be an incision just around the areola, a lollipop incision (around the areola with a vertical extension... more

SEE VIDEO BELOW: There are so many different options for mastopexy that this is not an easy question to answer. Scars can range from fold incisions (for implants alone), to crescents, to donuts, to loollipops and to anchors. I know that sounds like a strange collection of items but these are... more

There is a great misconception that plastic surgeons have a magic wand that can make miracles happen (lift the breasts without scars, perform a facelift with no incision, etc).  In order to move skin or tissue, incisions have to be made and sutures have to be placed.  Everyone heals differently.... more

All breast lift techniques involve some scarring with or without having an implant. Also, most suturing is done internally and there are no sutures visibie on the outside and won't have any suture marks showing. The basic trade-off with a breast lift is scarring. The more powerful a lift the more scarring is... more

You cannot do a breast lift without scars. I use stitches under the skin that will dissolve on their own so there are no external stitch marks. I assume that by "alone" you mean without an implant?  With or without an implant there will be scars.

Hi! We now close all wounds internally, so there are no suture marks across the scars.   But there certainly are scars with most breast lifts (occasionally, you can do an internal lift).  Most women need a lollipop scar.  Almost nobody needs the old fashioned "anchor" scar for a lift.