Breast Lift Surgery - What You Should Know About It

One of the common cosmetic surgery is breast lift surgery which is also known as mastopexy. Breast lift surgery is a complex breast improvement procedure that lift and re-shape sagging or drooping breasts. The breast lifting can be done with the insertion of breast implants or without it. It will all depend on the anatomical factors and the requirements of a patient.

Only 1 treatment is needed for the breast lift and the result is long lasting. The breast lift surgery will take about 2 to 4 hours to perform. The surgery can be done using local anesthesia or general anesthesia in a surgical suite or in a hospital.

The length and the number of incisions for the breast lift surgery will normally be determined by the extent of the breast lift. So the more breast lift a patient require, the more incisions she will have. So, if a patient who require considerable lift, she is most likely will not be a suitable periareolar incision candidate. She will be an anchor incision candidate.

The periareolar incisions are among most well-known incisions which surgeons used to put in implants during a breast augmentation. The incision, made at the surrounding edge of the patient’s nipple where the nipple meet the adjoining breast tissue. The scarring from a periareolar incision is almost unseen, because it merges well with the natural skin color transformations.

There are 3 incisions which form an anchor shape (thus the term ‘anchor incision’) in one breast lift surgical technique.

1. The initial incision is made around the areola and extending above it and this will create new location for the nipple.

2. The second incision is made vertically, right from the nipple and down to the base of the breast.

3. And the third incision is made underneath the breast just on top of the fold below the breast. These incisions will create flaps whereby the surplus skin shall be removed.

The surplus skin could also be removed because the areola and the nipple have been located to an upper location on the breast. The position of the nipple is usually placed it shall be vertically even with the lower crease in between the chest and the breast.

The skin which was before located on top of the nipple is then moved down to the surrounding of the nipple and sewn up beneath the breast. The areola and the nipple stay attached to the underlying breast tissue, the related nerve and blood supply thus reducing the odds of sensation loss.

Certain patients, different techniques may be suitable which could include the omission of the horizontal incision alongside the breast bottom therefore reducing the number of scar after the breast lift surgery.

A woman who has small breast and small degree of droopiness, a circle series of incisions may be used for her breast lift surgery, which with this method, the horizontal and vertical incisions are omitted.

What You Should Consider About Large Breast Implants

The continuous development of breast augmentation has documented some problems with most large breast implants. The large breast implants will bottom out eventually. This happen because of a difference between the size as well as the weight of the implant and what one's patient breast tissue can bear.

Hence, present-day sizing theory of breast implant, is that the implants chosen must not considerably weakens the soft tissue and also the ligament support of the patient’s breast. This step will sometime come between what a patient desire and what the surgeon might recommend.

Despite the fact that many women already have a very suitable breast size in mind for their body, there are some women who favor a larger breast result. Under these conditions, the surgeon may be caught between what the surgeon thinks is a good size for the patient and what the patient prefer.

This is mainly due to the fact that the patient may not have an understanding about the possible long term repercussion of a larger breast. In a breast augmentation, the ultimate result is to ensure that the patient is happy with the result and to avoid future correction surgery.

Therefore what is the perfect choice for breast implants size or what is the safest large breast implants size?

A good rule of thumb is not to have the breast implant base width go beyond that of the patient's natural breast. Every breast implants have a width at the base when put flat on a table that will grow wider as the volume of breast implant becomes bigger. In the event the implant begins to become wider than the patient’s breast or the chest well, it will get into the patient's axillary space and it will hinder the swing of the arm.

What's more, large breast implants that gets excessively far to the side will affect the recovery whereby the recovery is going to be very hard. If this happens, it will cause the downsizing of large breast implants as well as tightening the pocket later very difficult.

Lastly, the satisfaction of breast augmentation is conclusively the mixture of the end size and the shape that is accomplished. Large breast implants may be suitable if the widths do not go beyond the natural breast base width.