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

Bulgarian "cosmetic surgeon" Dr. Serdev is performing what amounts to "thread lifting" of not only breasts, but faces, chins, buttocks, thighs, foreheads, etc. Virtually any part of the human body that sags can be "lifted" with these elastic suture puncture-only lifts. There is a reason these so-called "lifts" are performed and "taught" predominantly by "cosmetic surgeons," not real plastic surgeons. These are the Dermatologists, General Surgeons, OB/GYN doctors, and physicians of other specialties that have little or no training in plastic surgery, and often very little true surgical training of any kind!

Innovation? Hardly!

New? No way!

Does it really work? Depends on what you mean. It certainly does make money for the practitioners, and usually does not harm patients, except in their wallets!  

Results? Minimal to NONE! (especially if you do it on someone who didn't need it in the first place)

Cost? How much are YOU willing to pay for the Emperor's clothes?

There is a reason that properly-trained (6-7 years of surgical and plastic surgical training AFTER medical school) and American Board of Plastic Surgery-certified plastic surgeons do not perform this technique and instead utilize "traditional" techniques. They aren't "traditional" at all; they are ethical, appropriate, and represent state-of-the-art procedures that really work and provide results that last. And yes, scars are needed, and there is a percentage of patients that will have nipple numbness. Everybody wants "something" for "no risk," no scars, and of course, "low cost."

Barnum and Bailey had it right when they provided sideshows that exhibited bearded ladies, "real, live memaids," and other such spectacles to take money from a gullible public. There really is a sucker (actually lots of them) in every crowd! Don't fall for this brand of snake oil! See ABPS-certified plastic surgeons and get the real deal. Best wishes!

Thanks for your question -

In our Bay Area practice we frequently perform traditional and short scar / vertical scar mastopexy (breast lift).

The challenge with this procedure for many patients is the scar and plastic surgeons have been working for decades to find ways to minimize the scar while keeping the powerful and long lasting results of traditional lift techniques.

Unfortunately, no one has nailed a scar free technique.  Suture techniques have been tried in other areas (facelift, buttock lift, etc.)  Most of these techniques have been abandoned as reliable alternatives to traditional surgical techniques.

I would doubt that a suture technique would produce a long lasting change.  In addition, the concept of suture techniques in breast lifts makes even LESS sense than these same techniques in facelifts because with many breast lift candidates you really have an excess of skin that won't change.

I hope this helps!