If you are looking for high, tight, round, full breasts, this is really technique and surgeon dependent as well are the complications. The full breast lift takes about 2 hrs to perform. Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of breast lifts each year. Then look at the plastic surgeon's website before and after photo galleries to get a sense of who can deliver the results. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
Hi Young2fly, I would absolutely not recommend the "ultimate breast lift." As you can tell from most of the plastic surgeon's responses, this is not a new operation and it is more of a marketing term. I find using the term not only unprofessional and even unethical, but the surgery itself sub-ultimate. The "ultimate breast lift" describes an operation where the breast tissue is contoured internally, and incisions are limited to around the areola as well as a long horizontal. No vertical incision is used. Internal contouring is done with many types of lifts, not unique to the "ultimate" lift. It is the lack of a vertical incision that apparently has motivated the author to use the term "ultimate." Lets analyze this. Traditionally. three incisions are used to perform a standard breast lift. The periareola, the vertical, and the horizontal. In an attempt to decrease both the number of incisions along with improving the quality of the incisions different breast lift procedures have been developed. It is an accepted fact by the consensus of plastic surgeons that the incision that is most problematic is the horizontal incision. In fact, it is also recognized that the vertical incision usually heals the best. That incision, often, is inconspicuous and extremely difficult to see once the healing process is complete. Even if the horizontal incision turns out to heal well the ends of it will always be exposed in a low cut dress and a revealing bathing suit top. Also, the vertical incision helps give projection to the breast. Breast lifts without the vertical incision tend to be a bit flat in the region of the nipple areola despite the internal shaping. This can be seen on the side views in the before and after photos for the "ultimate" breast lift. To use the term "Ultimate,." implies that there is no better lift. That is not only arrogant, but false. Good luck, Ary Krau MD FACS
