Breast Lift: Q&A
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Breast Lift Options?
Are there any options for breast lifts that don't involve cutting around the areola? I know a lift will be in my future and I have never seen any truly good results. There is always a visible scar at the least, and misshapen areolas at worst. Why can't a lift be done from under the breast, using your own muscle tissue to create an internal bra. I know that is probably a naive question from someone who doesn't know a lot about our internal anatomy, but I'm sure I'm not the only woman who wonders.
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TCinIN
in Indiana
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Breast Lift Scars of Areola/nipple. Is it necessary to lift the nipple/areola?
Naturally everyone wants the least scars with any surgery, including breast lift surgery. The reason that there is a scar around the areola is because the nipple complex needs to be moved up from its sagging position.
An internal bra technique of breast lift, does lift the breast mass, but it does not lift the position of a drooping nipple. If the nipple is not lifted, then the breast will not look natural, despite having lifted the breast tissue via an internal breast lift.
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Breast Lift Options?
Great question. I use internal techniques to reshape breasts during a lift. This is intended to improve cosmetic results and maximize longevity; however, there is no way to create significant lifting without scars. I wish there was better news, but scarless breast lifts are not possible for a number of reasons:
Breast lifts are about improving sagging. Sagging is a problem caused by the nipple being too low, often with too much breast skin.
Fixing sagging requires moving the...
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Various breast lift options
Hello,
Thank you for the question. There are many different types of breast lifts in part because there are many different type of breasts and desired results. Most women who undergo a breast lift have an areola that is too low on he breast/chest. When there is too much skin above the areola is has to be reduced (removed) and this requires some type of incision around the areola.
All the best,
Dr Remus Repta
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Breast lift
Yes, all lifts require some sort of incision. An inframammary excision can be performed in only those cases that have glandular ptosis and usually they do not provide enough lift of the breast tissue.
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Breast lift options
That is an excellent question and one that I get asked frequently. There is no good way to lift the breast without the incision around the areola. While there are some internal approaches for minor lifting, the results are not very predictable, and the amount of lifting slight.
When your breasts sag, the nipple becomes positioned in a lower spot. The skin of the upper breast stretches, and the breast tissue migrates inferiorly, or lower. A breast lift would need to reposition the nipple...
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Options for breast lift
This is a good question. I am not aware of any technique that produces a long-lasting lift without a scar around the areola. Sometimes if a breast has lost volume, a minor lift effect can be achieved with the placement of breast implants. Most patients in my practice find that the relatively minor scars around the areola and extending below the areola, if necessary, are an acceptable trade-off for a beautiful breast. I discuss the various breast lift options in the...
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Breast lift without scar around the areola
If the nipples are not to low ,a small amount of lifting can be obtained with internal sutures
An implant in selected cases will also help lift the breast
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It is necessary to lift the nipple in a breast lift
Certainly there are a few who have glandular ptosis of the breast alone, but for most the lift is all about nipple position to raise and hold the nipple front and center on the breast. Unfortunately internal sutures just don't work.
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We need the periareolar scar in order to elevate the nipple position. "Internal bras" don't work.
You don't see a lot of good results on the internet because some of the techniques that are used even today are suboptimal. Actually, plastic surgeons have gone to all sorts of lengths to try to create a lift effect using breast tissue and even the muscle. They don't work, likely because the tissue is just too malleable. An incision around the areola is needed to reposition the nipple and areola at a higher level. So we are stuck with this incision. But the good...
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Breast Lift Options?
Thank you for the question; it is a commonly asked question by many women who wonder about the scars associated with breast lifting surgery.
Generally speaking, the type of breast lift that a patient would benefit from will depend on the degree of breast ptosis (“drooping"). In other words, the more “sagging” a specific patient's breasts demonstrate, the more breast lifting is necessary.
As you know, all forms of breast lifting involves some amount of skin excision....
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Breast Lift and Scars
Its not a naive question at all. We would love to be able to perform this surgery without leaving scars especially around the areola. However the main reason for doing a lift is to get the nipple areolar complex to a higher or more youthful position. Unfortunately the only way to do that is to mobilize it and move it surgically which requires cutting around it. Also most women who want a lift feel that the complex is too large and want the areola reduced....
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Boca Raton Plastic Surgeon
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Why Scars for Breast Lift?
At the end of all discussion, there is one incontrovertible fact about a saggy breast -- there is skin excess that has to be removed in some fashion. The same is true in tummy tuck. The same is true in facelift.
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