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Can my Breasts Be Lifted with Just an Implant? (photo)

I am approx a 36 B. I have always hated my breasts. I have large areolas and small breasts. I would like to breast feed with children but don't want to wait much longer to get the implants. I would like them while I am still young. Because of the desire to breast feed I would like to aviod any cutting around the nipple which would not allow a breast lift but I was wondering if implant alone would be able to give me size C/D with some lift. I don't mind a little sagging if it means i can BF later.

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Can my Breasts Be Lifted with Just an Implant?

Your breasts would be enlarged with implants but would not be lifted. The breasts seem to sag enough that implants alone would likely result in the appearance of your own breast tissue draping off the implants, and that is quite an unusual and unattractive appearance. Many women who have had breast lifts and breast reductions have been able to nurse successfully after their surgery. I believe that a frank discussion in person with a plastic surgeon can help sort out your options,... more

Augmentation in marginally ptotic breasts

Can be done and it is your expectations that will determine whether a mastopexy or breast lift will be needed. If you are satisfied with just larger breasts with nipples that still point downwards, an augmentation alone will be adequate. If you desire perky, youthful breasts, a lift is needed and with it comes the additional costs and scars. I would consider you to be in the grey zone and you can decide on what will work best for you after you have your consultation(s). more

Curtis Wong, MD

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Redding Plastic Surgeon

Breast lifts and implants

As many of the responses here indicate, breast implants do not lift the breast in the usual sense of that word. Implants are a pillow that fills out the breast from behind and makes it look bigger. If the lower pole of the breast is filled out with this pillow it gives the illusion that the breast and the nipple-areola are lifted from the front. It is not possible to tell from the pictures where the inframammary crease is in relation to the nipple but it may be possible to fill out... more

Breast implants

You can certainly have just implants inserted now. even though your breasts are somewhat saggy, it sound like you are willing to accept it even if it requires more surgery later,after you have children. It sounds like you feel that Implants alone will provide some lift to the breasts, and many plastic surgeons will tell you this. However, I do not think they provide any lift at all; that's just my opinion.

Implants Without A Lift Will Give You The Snoopy Nose Deformity

You have several elements of the tuberous breasts. You have a tight, fixed fold at the bottom of your breast, and if you put an implant under your existing breast, your breast will hang off the implant very much like Snoopy's nose in the Peanuts cartoon. If you don't like your breasts now, you will hate them after just a straight augmentation. If you do a standard Benelli or circumareolar reduction, it will decrease the size of your areolar and give you a lift simultaneously.... more

Is An Implant Enough?

Thank you for the question and the pictures. While looking at pictures is never as good as in-person exam, it does appear that you may not be able to get a decent result by augmentation alone. Your expectations are realistic, as your are willing to accept some post operative sagging to try to maintain your ability to breast feed. However, you do have quite a bit of sagging which leads me to believe that the amount of drooping that will remain after your surgery may be more than you would... more

Cosmetic Breast Surgery options

Thank you for including your photos. Based on your appearance and desires you have multiple options to choose from to enhance your breast shape and size: Implant alone - I would recommend a silicone implant on top of the muscle, you might benefit from a high profile style. Lift alone - a lollipop scar to lift the breast Lift + Implant- either a lollipop or circumareolar scar + an implant at the same time Lift than an implant - 2 operations, lifting first for... more

Implants don't lift breasts, they "fill" what's there, which MAY tighten and simulate less droop.

Augmentation via periareolar incisions will unavoidably cut some of the breast ducts, divide glandular tissue, and thereby reduce the ability to later breast feed. Augmentation via crease incision will spare the ducts and breast tissue, but about 50% of women have difficulty breast feeding whether they have implants or not, so you must consider this as well. As others have stated, with your photographic anatomy, augmentation alone without lift has a lower likelihood of yielding a... more

Will breast implants alone lift my breasts?

Your photos do not allow for a definitive recommendation regarding the need or no-need for breast lifting in addition to breast augmentation. But given your particular concerns and the suggestion that implants alone may provide some indirect lifting, even if not maximal, then you may be a candidate for just breast augmentation. But again the ultimate decision can only be made at time of examination. Good luck!

Breast lift

From your photos I would not think augmentation alone will give you a satisfactory result. I would recommend an augmentation mastopexy using a vertical technique to minimize the scar Gary Hall,MD

Gary Hall, MD

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Kansas City Plastic Surgeon

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Lift and implants

Implants do not lift the breast with any signficance. If you need a lift, a formal incison pattern with either a lollipop or a T may be needed. Sometimes a circumareola is possible as well.

Steven Wallach, MD

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Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Lift after breast feeding

Those who tend to a low nipple postion can have further creep or droop after breast feeding, and implants first, lift later sounds like a good plan to us. You wish to avoid the scar for a time, will accept a little sag, and breast feeding is important. Go with your instincts and have the lift later.

Implants enlarge the breasts but don't lift them

A lift means moving the nipples up. This does not happen by using implants alone. They just make you a bigger version of yourself. A lift is needed to get a lift accomplished.

Breast Lift Necessary?

Thank you for the question and pictures. Although I am not able to give you precise advice without direct examination and a full communication of your goals, I would be concerned about being able to achieve an aesthetically pleasing result with breast augmentation surgery only. As you mentioned, your breasts do demonstrate some (asymmetric) ptosis (drooping), leading me to think that you will do better with breast lifting as well. Your concern about... more

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moosh05 14 Mar 2013

I just wanted to say I am Post op 4 weeks now. Went with saline implants no lift with inframammary incision. 570cc to R breast and 540 to L breast. Going from a 36B to 36D.The implants filled out the lower pole of my breast and the implants seemed to give the appearence of a lift and filled out my sagging tissue. They did not get the snoopy nose look. They are still healing but look great so far!

moosh05 12 Sep 2012

I will add that the doc i did see didnt think i had enough tissue under the breast to do like a lollipop lift. I'm jyst trying for other opinions. There are not many docs to pick from in Omaha.

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