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How to Fix Sagging, Far Apart Breasts?
My breasts are saggy and very far apart. They also don't have a very normal shape. My breast seem like they are almost on my sides. What can be done to correct them?
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Mandy78
in usa
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Improve sagging breasts with a breast lift and augmentation
Your breasts are challenging but they can most definitely be improved.
Your best option, in my opinion, is a breast augmentation to provide fullness and a full lift (please see video included).
Unfortunately, there is no treatment for breasts which are far apart. Some patients have a wide chest bone with the breasts separated. The only option is to make a cut over the chest bone, remove the wide portion and re-wire the bone back together (VERY DRAMATIC!)
It also will leave a long scar in...
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Lifting tubular breasts
Like many of the other doctors who have answered here- I agree that you would benefit from a well performed breast lift. Your breasts do seem to be somewhat tubular in their form, and so as part of the lifting procedure you would likely benefit from a release of the constricting tissue at the breast base on either side.
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Tuberous breast deformity
Your breasts have a tuberous shape to them, which means that they are constricted at the base, which causes the tissue to "flop" and sag. This is a challenging problem, which can be corrected by releasing the tissue, elevating it with a breast lift, and placing implants to provide volume that will match your body. I suggest seeing several board-certified plastic surgeons in your area who can evaluate you and show you photographs of similar patients. Good luck, /nsn.
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Sagging and far apart
You seem to have a componet of the tuberous breast anomoloy with the tight infra mammary crease. This is probably of no consequence to you and your breasts can be lifted and improved tremendously with a inverted T shaped lift.
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Breast Implant Position
For ideal results, you may need a breast augmnetation and a breast lift.
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How to Fix Sagging, Far Apart Breasts
There are no good procedures to completely give you cleavage but a mastopexy (breast lift) with an implant can make the appearance of this deformity much better. Having both breast more fuller with elevation of the nipple/areolar complex will give the appearance of more cleavage.
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Breast lift for tuberous breasts
Your breasts are tuberous. They would benefit from a mastopexy. However, given your shape, this would leave you with small breasts which might make you appear bottom-heavy. If this is a concern, you should consider augment-mastopexy. I recommend that you see a board certified plastic surgeon in consultation. Best of luck!
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Plastic Surgery Options for Displaced Breasts
Indeed your breasts are displaced very much to your sides as well as projecting onto your abdomen. Essentially your breasts need to have a breast lift and possibly a small breast reduction in order to elevate them back onto your chest wall. With the correct design of the procedure, your post-operative breasts will be more centrally placed on your chest wall. The limiting factor will be how easily your nipple and areola can be adjusted more centrally. You may still feel that you have a wider...
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Breast lift(mastopexy) and augmentation
Based on the photo you provided, you look like an excellent candidate for a mastopexy (lift) and breast augmentation to improve the look and shape of the breasts. The incision type used to provide a lift depends on the severity and complexity of the case. Implants will be used and placed under the mucsle to help provide fullness and improve the shape of the breasts. In your case, an "anchor" incision may be used to provide a perkier and longer-lasting look. I recommend...
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You are a candidate for a breast lift
A breast lift is an excellent surgery to correct the sagging of breasts and to change their shape and position on the chest. If you're interested in adding additional volume to the breast or creating a rounder appearance, you may consider adding implants to the lift. Be sure that you consult with a board-certified plastic surgeon who is well-versed in breast lift and breast augmentation techniques. Combining these two surgeries may be a challenge and it is important to...
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Fixing sagging breasts with breast lift and implants
Great question and the photo helps. Your problem is not a rare one and likely has been present since puberty. It appears you have some breast sagging or ptosis with mild constriction. This can be corrected with a breast lift which will leave you with higher nipples though your shape may not be acceptable, therefore you may consider an implant at the time of the lift or in a staged fashion.
A silicone implant may feel more natural considering you may have some lower breast thinning to...
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A breast lift will improve shape and implants will provide fullness
If you are happy with your breast volume, then a breast lift will help shift your breasts up and in, providing improved shape. Implants, in combination with lifting, will provide more volume and fullness in the upper breasts (something that is difficult to accomplish with a lift alone) and also give more cleavage. Either way, your scars will be around the areolar margins, up and down underneath the areolea, and likely in the inframammary creases.
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Correcting Breast Shape
Hi there-
I always caution women strongly against the idea that there are "cookie-cutter" procedures that can be applied to give the result you want.
Achieving a beautiful, safe, and long lasting outcome from ANY plastic surgery procedure is about finding a quality surgeon with a lot of experience, expressing your goals to them, undergoing an examination, and reviewing options with them....
I do think that you have excellent options for achieving lovely breasts that are better centered
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Sagging breasts and proper mastopexies
Thanks to the photo we can see how natural ptosis (sagging) of the breast must be corrected. As the breast gland and attached nipple-areola are repositioned upward, the correct position must track toward the mid-chest so that the breast and nipple-areola are properly centered over the base of the breast which is quite normal and only slightly farther apart than average. The volume of the breast looks adequate but is spread out from the sagging and will look larger when properly lifted and...
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The answer to sagging breasts
The solution to your breast shape is quite simple, and a breast lift or mastopexy will lift the nipple up onto the front of the breast, bring the nipple toward the center of the chest, and shape the breast such that it has better projection without the downward droop below the fold and side of the chest.
Actually your breast shape is 'normal' for many women though you have inherited a shape that calls for constant support from a bra to maintain a nice figure. The breast lift required to...
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Opttions for tuberous breasts
At the very least you need a lift with areolar reduction, parenchymal rearrangement and possible radial relaxing incisions. In regards to the implants, my first question to you would be to ask if you are happy with the size. If you like the size I would avoid the use of implants. If you would like to be larger, I would consider the use of an implant combined with slight redution in the sagging tissue.
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Correction Sagging, Tuber-Like Breasts
I agree with the posts by Drs. Rand and Naidu. You would achieve a nice result with a well done Breast Lift (Mastopexy) which released the constriction at the base of these implants and reduced the size of your areolae. To get more volume and projection, implants MAY be needed.
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Breast lift will create normal breast shape.
Hi.
A good internal breast lift with a lollipop scar will dramatically improve the appearance of your breasts, and bring them closer together. You probably don't need breast implants.
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Breast lift for saggy, far apart breasts
A standard type of breast lift is the answer for sagging breasts, and it should work well based on what I see in the photo. If you picture the base foundation of the breasts, they are not abnormally far apart, but the lateral and downward-pointing nipples makes it appear that way. You may benefit from implants but I don't see it as absolutely necessary in order to get a good result.
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Saggy, widely-spaced breasts
You must decide on what result you would be happy with. Although the breast glands are droppy (ptotic) and diverging outward, the base of your breasts are fairly normal. You certainly have sufficient volume, just in the wrong place.
I would suspect a lift/reduction of some design (probably with a lollipop to short-L scar) would be all you need if the volume is sufficient. If you are in a bra that places the tissue in the correct position, is the size adequate?...
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Drooping breasts
If you like the volume of your breasts then you could have a breast lift with some interal contouring of the breast tissue. This would probably give you both the lift and the mdial volume improvement. If you also want to be larger then you could also add implants.
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Breast lift and implants
The situation you have needs a full breast lift and implants. The lift will elevate the nipple up and in and reshape the breast and the implants will add fullness and close the gap if the implant is wide enough.
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Lift plus implants could fix sagging, far apart breasts
From your photo, BTW thanks. It is your body type, specifically your chest anatomy that causes the appearance to your breasts. I recommend a Full Lift with a small saline implant. Let's see what the other experts suggest.
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Sagging breasts
Your breasts are droopng and need a lift. They also may have a tuberous component and may need the constriction at the base released as well.
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