Do I need a lift with my implant? (Photos)

Like many, your perception is that a breast lift will make you look fake, which is not the case. A breast lift is designed to make your breasts look normal after placement of an implant. Your breasts sag and are asymmetric, which would be made worse by an implant. What you want is normal, and hopefully, pretty breasts. The lift is necessary.

After I measure and discuss goals with my patients, we then look at pictures of women (my patients) with similar measurements with different size and style breast implants. They then get to choose what looks right for them. They also get to see what they would look like when the breasts have fully dropped and fluffed and in clothes. You get to see actual results and the surgeon's experience and not a virtual idea of what can be achieved. Women tell me that this process is very helpful in determining what size and style breast implant is right for them. Mildly Sagging Breasts: If your breasts are mildly droopy, a saline or silicone gel implant placed behind the pectoral muscle might help create the illusion of perkiness. That’s because as the implant fills out the top of the breast, it also fills out the bottom, making it look as if the nipple has moved higher. It hasn’t. You can always get a lift later if you feel you are not perky enough when fully settled and healed. Dr. Ted Eisenberg, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and Author. RealSelf Distinguished Hall of Fame Inductee. Philadelphia, Pa., USA

One breast sags more than the other. You can have just implants, but you will have more perkiness and upper breast fullness if you have a lift and place the implants behind the muscle.