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Can I Have a Breast Augmentation That Lifts the Breast Without Making Them Larger?

What type of augmentation is best for after breastfeeding to fill the loose skin and make breasts sag less? Return to pre-pregnancy size?

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Augment for lift only

If you had a lot of breast ptosis or sagging of the skin, a mastopexy alone would make the breasts smaller so you are correct that this could be addressed with a small implant to prevent a loss of volume. However, just an augment might not be enough to lift the breasts particularly if you wanted to stay relatively small. You need to discuss the surgical alternatives with a board certified plastic surgeon and then consider your options.

Implants are to increase breast size, lifts are to lift the breasts

Implants make you bigger, period. The give you VERY little, if any of a lift. Breast lifts are designed to elevate the breasts on the chest. If you don't want to be bigger, don't get breast implants. If you want to be lifted, get a breast lift. If you want both, get both.

Breast Lift Surgery

It sounds like what you are describing is breast lift surgery. What this does is remove any excess skin and tighten surronding supporting tissue to give you a tighter high look. There are different types of breast lifts, depending on how much your breasts are sagging. I would suggest seeing a plastic surgeon and setting up a consultation to see exactly what you are a canidate for.

Breast Augmentation/Lift

Without pictures I cannot tell you exactly what you need, but I can give you general advice from my experience operating on patients that have been pregnant. To correct the changes the breasts undergo post pregnancy and breast-feeding, a surgeon will typically advise you to have both a breast augmentation to help with the fullness and a lift to help with the skin laxity. If you opt for just a breast lift, your breast size will decrease, therefore a breast augmentation with a smaller... more

Augmentation without increase size....

The only way you can have an augment without increasing size is to have a concommittant reduction... and this is what I do when patients come in with very saggy, atrophic breasts and are desiring the look of implants. You just have to understand that when the time comes for you to give up your implants, your breasts will be much smaller now (but perky). Lifts alone do not provide much upper pole fullness and depending on technique, many will "bottom out" so choose your... more

Curtis Wong, MD

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Redding Plastic Surgeon

Breast implants and volume vs. lift

Breast implants are synthetic pillow volume. The fill out and enlarge the look of the breast but do not lift or reposition it (although they can give the illusion of a lift). A lift procedure, properly done, moves the nipple-areola and breast up higher on the chest wall and readjusts the skin around it but doesn't change the size significantly (although it can look larger). Neither procedure will change your skin or tissue tone or keep it from sagging/stretching. This is true of lifting... more

Lifting the breasts w/o making them larger

If you have enough tissue (stuff!) to make an "uplifted" breast the size you want, then you do not have to have an implant. Usually, what you see while wearing a bra pre-operatively is what you will get without an implant. A qualified Plastic Surgeon can examine you and give you options.

Breast augmentation that lifts the breast

There is no such thing as a breast augmentation that lifts the breast. All an implant is designed to do is to add volume to the breast, to make it bigger. Breast implants could be little bags of breast tissue. There is nothing in a breast implant that can lift your breast. If you truly need a breast lift then that would be a different operation completely and could be done with or without adding a breast implant.

Breast implants + Sagging Breasts = Rock in a sock!

Implants do not lift breasts- they only make them bigger. A breast lift that focuses on breast tissue is the best way to go.

Can implant lift breasts without making them larger?

I cannot properly give you a recommendation without examining you. However, please consider the followings. If you are happy with your current breast size but not with shape (due to saggy, hanging breasts), then you will just need a lift, i.e. mastopexy. If you want to have larger, fuller size, but happy with your breast shape, then you will need implant. If you have loose skin and want to be fuller, then you will need both implants and lift. Please visit with a... more

Implants Augment Rather Than Lift Breasts

Implants are designed to augment or enlarge breasts rather than to "lift" them. A breast lift requires removal of skin to tighten the breast envelope. Many women who have deflation of the upper poles of their breasts and sagging following pregnancies and breast feeding will benefit from both a lift or mastopexy as well as an augmentation.

Breast implants and fill

Without photos or ane xam it is impossible to say whether or not you can achieve your goals. Many times a small lift at least is required in women who have had post-partum involution of the breasts.

Steven Wallach, MD

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Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Implants without size increase?

It's hard to completely advise you without seeing a photo of your current appearance. Any implant you place will make you larger so I assume you do want to be larger than you are now- just to restore the volume/size/shape that you had before kids. Some patients in your situation need a breast lift and it really depends on where your nipple is on your current breast and how it relates to your actual breast tissue. If your nipple is still positioned toward the top of your... more

Return to preprenancy breast size

Any time you place a breast implant the breast will be larger, doing breast lift alone, however, will make the breast smaller. It seems to me you need beast augmentation and lift at the same time. You need a consultation with a plastic surgeon and see before and after photos and have a discussion on what you desire and what can be acheived. It is also desirable to bring photos of what you want to look like. Only then you will have the right answer to your questions.

Saggy breasts after pregnancy

Hi, If what you desire is for your breasts to return to their original position and size, then an "Ultimate Lift" is what you need. This procedure allows for me to reconstruct your existing tissue into a cone making your new breasts perky, firm and nice and high. The added benefit to this procedure is that it doesn't matter how saggy you are for a full lift without giving you a vertical scar. Patients who do not desire implants are very happy with this procedure because the... more

Can I have a breast augmentation that lifts the breast without making them larger?

Breast implants do not lift the breast, they fill out the breast, making them larger and resulting in more fullness in the upper pole of the breast. Any implant will increase the size of the breast...you cannot add an implant that has a certain volume to the breast and not have the breast get larger. Of course, small implants may increase upper pole fullness and fill out the breast with only a more subtle size increase. Never depend on an implant to lift the breast...if it is... more

Breast augmentation for lift only?

Hello, Its difficult to answer without photos and a more indepth discussion but in general breast augmentation is designed to increase volume and breast lift is designed to reshape the breast including repositioning the areola. If you can make your breast look the way you want them to look by cupping them with your hands or in a bra then you only need a breast lift and not a breast augmentation. Unfortunately, the reverse is not usually the case where volume is appropriate... more

You will probably need a breast lift

If your breasts are saggy and you are happy with the size of them, then you will probably need a breast lift, or mastopexy to get the results you are looking for. Scars from a mastopexy are generally around the areolae which are not very visible, and/or beneath the nipples, making them hidden in a bra or bikini. There are no scars above the areolae so you are able to wear low cut dresses or a bikini without any visible scars.

Lift the breast

I tell every patient- what you give me is what you get only bigger--unless we change the shape of the breast. an implant will fill in the loose skin and provide a fuller hanging breast. the only way to truly lift the breast is with a mastopexy good luck

Breast surgery after pregnancy

Unfortunately, it is not possible to get a good advice without direct examination or a series of frontal/side pictures. Generally however patients in your situation may benefit from saline or silicone gel implant breast augmentation plus or minus breast lifting (mastopexy). it is in your best interest, to seek consultation with a well-trained/experienced board-certified plastic surgeon for in person examination. With a good diagnosis, surgical plan and properly performed procedure... more