Can I Get Large Implants to Avoid Lift? (photo)

Large implants make the breasts large but do not lift the breast. It is very likely that if your skin and tissues are thinned and deflated, that you will not be able to support such a large implant without some type of additional procedure such as a lift or acellular hammock.  Large implants can cause thinning and problems down the road. Consider carefully before proceeding and discuss these issues in detail with your plastic surgeon. Best of luck.

Hello Kriswill,

If you are paranoid about your nipples ending up in some strange postition, then don't get big implants without a lift!  It is difficult to give you a truly fair assessment with only photosgraphs to look at, but you will not be happy with large implants overfilling the upper poles of your breast while the nipple and lower breast tissue remain low and sagging. It's a misunderstanding that big implants can some how rotate breast tissue into a higher position on the mound.  In fact, with ever larger implants, the nipples will more likely remain below the meridian that divides the top from bottom of the breast.

Please read my blog on breast lifts.

Best of luck!

Using a large implant to treat sagging breasts does not usually work.  One way to check for yourself is to see where the bottom of your breast attaches to the chest wall.  if the breast or if the nipple hang below this point then most likely you will need a lift.  This is mainly because the implant usually cannot be placed below the fold of the breast.  So, if you simply put an implant and do not do a lift then the drooping tissue will likely be hanging lower than where the implant is on the chest.