What Do You Know About The Semielastic Scarless Serdev Suture Breast Lift?

In order to achieve a breast lift, the material used must be strong enough to oppose the force of gravity.  A 34 B breast weighs approximately 1 lb.  Sutures by themselves do not have the strength to hold that amount of weight.  Breast lifts are based on using the skin envelope or internal suspension to create the force necessary to oppose gravity.  These techniques require incisions around the areola or incisions around the areola and in the inframammary folds.  Vertical incisions are impossible to hide and are not recommended.  There is a new technique "The Ultimate Lift" that transfers the weight to the underlying muscle.  Many patients are looking for the ideal procedure without scars but this does not exist at this time.

Best of Luck,

Gary Horndeski, M.D.

I agree with my colleagues and want to thank them for some really entertaining and honest answers!  Lol

Hi there-

I wish it weren't the case, but the unfortunate fact is that there are many people offering cosmetic surgery procedures (even some with legitimate plastic surgery training) who too easily resort to ridiculous gimmicks and cute names (the quick-lift, lunchtime lipo, naturalfill, etc) to attract patients and part them from their money.

Why do patients fall for these ridiculous gimmicks? Because you, like many other women out there, really want to believe that things that sound too good to be true can be achieved. The media attention to plastic surgery would make you believe that we are making "revolutionary" advancements on nearly a weekly basis, but common sense would tell you that a weekly revolution is not possible.

This media attention, and patients' desire to have something for nothing (a breast lift without scars or surgery), combined with the increasingly unethical and immoral behavior exhibited by some surgeons who are all too willing to say or do whatever it takes to attract more patients and take their money, creates a dangerous situation...

Please, please, please be careful. If I told you that I could sell you a "magic wrinkle-erasing mirror" for $2000 and that all you had to do is stare at yourself in the mirror for 30 minutes each day and after 6 months all of your wrinkles would be gone, would you send me your money? I hope not. I hope that you would laugh and dismiss me as the snake oil salesman that I would be if I did that... But the scary thing is that someone out there would send me money and believe it was true. Only after 6 months would they figure out that what I sold them didn't work and their money was long gone.

If I still haven't convinced you, you should know that here in my hometown of Orlando some years ago, an ER doctor calling himself a "cosmetic surgeon" actually had his medical license taken away after performing a procedure very similar to the one you are seeking on a patient- leaving her with chronic and debilitating pain, as well as ridiculous looking breasts.