Bellesoma Breast Lift and Explant

I have had 3 sets of breast implants in the past 15 or so years at a cost of over $30,000 and I never achieved what I hoped for: beautiful breasts. After all of that I thought my best chance for a good result would be explant and lift, and I posted that question with some photos here on Realself.com. One of the replies to my question came from Dr. Gary Horndeski, who recommended the Bellesoma breast lift. He said this method of lift would give me volume in the upper pole of the breast and bring them closer together to create nice cleavage. That was exactly what I hoped to achieve but never did with each augmentation and revision! It sounded too good to be true.
Fast forward a few months. I am now one week post op from my surgery with Dr. Horndeski, and the results are everything I hoped for and more. It hasn’t even really sunk in yet that I finally have the beautiful, perky, youthful breasts I’ve wanted for so long. I wish I had known that Dr. Horndeski and his Bellesoma method existed years ago, I never would have gotten my second or third set of implants.
Dr. Horndeski’s staff is awesome. They are very good at helping out of town patients travel to Houston. They are available, knowledgeable, and kind.
I hope that anyone considering implant revision, explant, or breast lift will come across this review and look into the Bellesoma method. If I had learned about it sooner I would have avoided unnecessary procedures and saved myself a lot of money and disappointment.

I thought I would post an update since I continue to heal, and they just look better and better. I’m 5 weeks post op in these pics (surgery Jan 8, 2019 and pics taken Feb 11, 2019). I’m thrilled with my results, and there is no better feeling than finally being happy with my body and comfortable in my skin. I have some puckering at the edges of my incisions that will probably require a little revision, but it gets better every week. I only wish I had done this sooner.

I should start by saying that I’m still thrilled with my breasts overall, and I would get a Bellesoma lift again in a heartbeat. Dr. Horndeski is brilliant and he gave me a more beautiful result than I could have hoped for.
However, there have been some issues with my incisions that are still not resolved. Unfortunately I think I’m going to have to see a different surgeon and have another procedure to get an acceptable outcome. After the initial procedure I was left with large “dog ears,” which is puckered skin at the ends of the incisions. My skin was stretched from many years of large implants, so it’s not surprising that I was left with excess skin after the procedure. I’m sure Dr. Horndeski wanted to make the incisions as short as possible. So I went back six months later, fully expecting the revision to be super easy, but as it healed in the weeks to follow I realized it looked sloppy and incomplete. I’m now one year out from the initial procedure and six months out from the revision, and it hasn’t improved in that time. When I wear a bra the excess skin folds onto itself and low cut tops show the deformity. I’ve consulted with another surgeon to remove the excess skin and hopefully that will fix the problem. I wish I would have gone somewhere else six months ago, but I couldn’t have known. I would still recommend this procedure wholeheartedly. But I would add that you should expect to need a revision in six months after the scar has fully contracted, and if you have the means to do it with a different surgeon you may get a better result.