Fundamentally, lifting your breasts is trading some breast scars for a better shape to your breasts. However, there are many techniques at the time of surgery, and through post operative scar reduction programs, to make the scars less visible and more acceptable.
Often with implant placement above the muscle, you can lift the breasts some with the implant alone. I have many patients that choose this option alone.
You can step up the surgical ladder one notch, and add a technique where skin is removed only around the nipple (peri-areolar or benelli lift). However, you can't ask too much of this technique otherwise it can flatten the appearance of the breast. This incision typically heals very nicely, and then you can reduce the size of your areola, which many patients want anyway.
The most powerful technique I use is a vertical breast lift, similar to the "lollipop" you perhaps have read about, this involves an incision around the nipple/areola and from the areola to the breast fold. These incision both heal very well.
I try to avoid the incision under the breast fold since that is the one that can be thick and patients dislike the most.
Many patients share your concerns, but almost all who choose this surgery love the exchange of some incisions for breasts that are no longer flattened and hanging low on their chest.
