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Transaxillary Breast Lift?

asked 1 year ago by JAX1947 in Los Angeles, CA
Latest answer by Tom J. Pousti, MD
Question viewed 132 times
Tags: under arms, transaxillary

Can You Do a Lift and Retain the Implant? Can a lift be done from the under arm area?

8 answers to Transaxillary Breast Lift?

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Transaxillary lift?

There's no such thing as a transaxillary lift.  What some choose to do is a transaxillary implant and a lift done on the skin but that ends up giving you two incisions and if you have a hematoma with the implant it's very difficult to accesss anymore because of the scar being far from the implant.
Ricardo A. Meade, MD

Dallas Plastic Surgeon
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Transaxillary Breast Lift?

Breast lifting surgery involves some degree of removal of breast skin and/or subcutaneous tissue. This “tightening of the skin envelope" of the breasts serves to list the breast position on the chest wall. In the process, the nipple/areola complex these are also moved superiorly. Therefore, the trans-axillary approach is not useful for breast lifting. I hope this helps.
Tom J. Pousti, MD

San Diego Plastic Surgeon
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Breast Augmentation, Breast Lift, Inverted Nipple Correction

Currently there is no standard technique of lifting the breast through the arm pit.  As you know an implant can be inserted through the arm pit.  There is a round block type of breast lift that can be done around the areola. 
Jay H. Ross, MD

Tampa Plastic Surgeon
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Breast lift through the armpit?

While an implant can be placed through the armpit, a lift must be done on the breast itself. If your implants are the right size and in the right place the lift can be done without touching them. An experienced plastic surgeon will help you select the right type of lift.
Eric Pugash, MD

Vancouver Plastic Surgeon
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Armpit Incision Breast Lifts - Not.

Regarding: "Transaxillary Breast Lift?  Can You Do a Lift and Retain the Implant? Can a lift be done from the under arm area?" Every breast implant placement incision has its advantages and disadvantages. The Arm Pit (Transaxillary) incision trades a distant hidden incision for invisibility. With the exception of the unrealistic option of putting in permanent rods extending from the arm pits to the bottom of the breast that you could push down on whenever you wanted to... more
Peter A. Aldea, MD

Memphis Plastic Surgeon
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Breast lift is not possible through the armpit

A breast lift mastopexy requires repositioning of the breast tissue. That is not possible through a small remote incision in the armpit
Martin Jugenburg, MD

Toronto Plastic Surgeon

www.torontosurgery.ca

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No such thing as trasnaxillary breast lift

The only procedure that can be done through the armpit is an implant and implants don't lift you.
Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS

Seattle Plastic Surgeon
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Breast lift through armpit

A breast lift can not be performed through a transaxillary incision.  Only a breast augmentation.  You have to litf the tissue locally more directly.
Steven Wallach, MD

Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

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