Breast Lift Options? Don't Want an Anchor Scar or Implants. (photo)

Thanks for your question -

A lollipop lift - or a vertical mastopexy - can be very powerful in terms of correcting breast ptosis.  A Wise pattern lift (anchor scar) has the ability to typically provide better correction but you may be able to get the look your seeking with a vertical alone.

What can be a valuable step is to bring photos of what you'd like your post-op results to look like.  Review them with your surgeon to best determine the appropriate surgery.

Also keep in mind that the transverse part of the scar is usually well hidden within the breast fold.

 

I hope this helps!

In my experience of more than a 25 years trying various techniques #TheLollipopLiftIsBest. You can use fat transfer instead of an implant though more than one fat transfer session may be required for your desired size.For years, Plastic Surgeons and their patients have desired to transfer unwanted fat from their tummy or thighs to their breasts. We are now are able to do this safely.If you have been considering a Breast Lift or improving your appearance after breast augmentation or Breast Reconstruction but are not comfortable with introducing artificial material into your body, you may want to look into the benefits of breast augmentation with fat transfer. An alternative to breast implants is fat transfer also known as fat grafting or lipoinjection. This technique allows women the option of enhancing the appearance of their breasts without the potential problems of saline or silicone implants such as hardness, rippling or rupture.Who is a candidate?Any woman who is healthyWomen with sufficient body fat for the procedureWomen considering breast augmentation who wish to be one cup size larger or lessWomen who have had breast augmentation or reconstruction but who lack fullness or have contour concerns. Fat transfer can further enhance and reshape your breasts while smoothing out visible or palpable edges of breast implants. This will disguise implant rippling and wrinkling.Women with normal mammography

Hi,

Fortunately, there is a better option than the traditional anchor scar to rejuvinate sagging breasts. The Ultimate Breast Lift is a new technique developed using engineering principles that requires an extensive background in mathematics to successfully perform. It uses an improved variation to the 'internal sling' lift. It accomplishes a long term lift by transfering the weight of your breasts to your pectoralis major muscles instead of relying on just the skin envelope. Women are very pleased with their natural results and are greatful about not having the dreaded and very visible vertical scar. Please take your time in researching all your options. This platform is a great start!

Best wishes,

Dr. H

Your a great candidate for a mastopexy (breast lift).  At the very least with a vertical and most likely and anchor type lift with significant reduction of areolar size.  Most importantly, will need internal rearrangement of your current breast volume to achieve the best shape provide long-standing support with Strattice Contour.

Although it is difficult or impossible to determine from a single frontal view, you appear to have tuberous features.  If so, a good peri-areolar lift with implants to fill the skin envelope and parenchymal (breast gland) remodeling will improve the shape of your breasts (less "sagging") and leave a scar concealed in the border of your areolae without a vertical lower breast component or a scar in the crease beneath your breast.  You admit there is not excess skin under the fold, only on top.  If so, skin removal should be on top to lift the breast, not on the bottom, leaving the area below the areolae unscarred.  See case 11 in the augmentation-lift portion of feelbeautiful.com gallery for an example.

Hello,

Even the guy who 'wrote the book' on vertical type mastopexy, Dennis Hammond, MD and his famous SPAIR technique, would end up giving you a J or L shaped vertical scar, essentially half an anchor.  The problem is the degree of vertical excess of skin that you have requires an excision that either forms an inframammary scar in the case of an anchor incision, or is taken up in a giant circle of skin around the areola in the case of a vertical incision.  I have seen too many people walk into my office with devastating deformaties from surgeons who've tried to do a vertical mastopexy on the wrong candidate.

I agree with Dr. Rand.  99.9% of my patients find the appearance of their breasts much more pleasing with the incisions after surgery, compared to how their breasts looked before surgery. If you cannot come to terms with scaring, you are much better off doing nothing at all. You should be skeptical of the 'internal sling' lift.  If it sounds too good to be true....

Best of luck!