By inserting breast implants, does that naturally lift up skin under your breasts? Upper ribs?

It's a good question. It's important to know that implants don't lift your breasts. In person examination, careful measurements, and a good understanding of your goals is used to determine when a lift should be added to an augmentation surgery. The attached link discusses how I help my patients decide when a lift is needed along with their breast augmentation surgery.

Thank you for your excellent question.  Looking at your full profile and pictures you are starting from a very nice point and should anticipate an excellent appearance from a breast augmentation.  You do not appear to have much skin along your upper abdomen or below your breasts, but do have a shorter distance from your areola to your breast crease.  Depending on the size of implant you select you can anticipate some lifting of the upper abdominal skin and as a result i would place your augmentation incision 0.5cm or so below your crease.  Hope this helps.

Good question. To a very small extent the answer is yes. The caveat being if you need a true lift, the implant alone will not accomplish this for you. The volume of the implant will fill out deflated tissue which can reposition the nipple / areola to a better position but not fully without a surgical lift.best

Simply placing larger implants in a patient who needs a breast lift will not accomplish much except to make the breasts larger.  The implants do not raise the tissues at all.  They can give the perception that the breast is raised for a while since it is fuller, but over time the added size simply pulls the breast down to where it sits already.  Consequently, you have a larger breast that still sits lower.  The best thing to do is to have a few consultations with board certified plastic surgeons and see what is recommended.  I hope this helps.

A breast augmentation will pull skin in a little bit from all directions to compensate for the new sudden volume in the breasts. However, the change to the abdominal skin would be minimal. Real skin change in abdomen requires a tummy tuck. Good luck.

Implants do not lift the breasts to any significant degree. If you need a lift then a formal breast lift procedure is probably necessary.

Breast augmentation can take up skin laxity, push the breast fold lower, and can give lift to breast. When we talk about breast lift however we often are referring to nipple position. While it is true that the nipple might lift if at or above the breast fold with an implant, if the nipple is below the fold the implant is likely to push the nipple lower without doing the proper breast lift.

Breasts sag because they have a poorly supported weight attached to the chest wall by small ligaments called Cooper's ligaments. As we age and with added weight pulling on them these ligaments give and stretch and the breasts begin sagging inferiorly very much like a sail which lost its filling wind. Consider the difference between a balloon and a wind filled sail. A wind filled sail may point more forward but will not rise up. Hoping that a forward facing structure like a breast or sail would rise by the addition of volume (wind or an implant) is unrealistic. A breast implant fills the breasts and takes out the sag BUT it cannot lift it. Similarly, the breast fold and the lower chest skin under it (which may have a fat pad in some women) is densely attached to the chest wall. ( you can pull on the skin under the breast and the nipple would not move). This flesh will not move or in medical speak, be recruited, by forward pushing of the breast skin by implants. In sumnary, breast implant fill the breast but do not and cannot lift it permanently. Adding more weight to the breasts will perk it up a bit but will not lift them . And eventually when gravity wins, sagging will occur. Advice? Pick the smallest implant you would be happy with. Have a breast lift if once is indicated. Wear an appropriate bra whenever you can. Peter Aldea MDMemphis, TN

Inserting an implant lifts the breast a minimal amount. Implants can help fill out a deflated skin envelope. Whether or not the implant will "pull" up the skin below the breasts depends on a number of factors that can only be determined with an exam. See a board certified plastic surgeon for an exam. They will be able to best answer your questions after examining you.

     Breast implants will lift breast tissue but will not cause tissues on the upper abdomen to be lifted in a lasting manner.  There may be some initial tightening but this will not last.  Sorry, but breast implants are not a solution for loose upper abdomen skin.