Breast Lift

Also known as Mastopexy, this is a surgical procedure for raising and reshaping your breasts to make them firmer, rounder, and perkier. It helps you get an aesthetically pleasing breast shape. Mastopexy can be combined with enhancement or reduction.

Should you consider a breast lift?

Breast Sag

Breasts may sag due to several factors such as weight loss, pregnancy, breast feeding, gravity due to aging and lead to hanging or drooping breasts

Breast Lift

Breast tissues are reshaped/rearranged, the tissues are strengthened, the excess skin removed, thereby firming the breast and restoring a youthful appearance.

Considerations

Have your breasts lost its volume and shape? Do your breasts have large areolas and stretch marks? Are your breasts flat and elongated or pendulous? Do you have asymmetric breasts?

Which breast lift surgery should you choose?

Grade 1 ptosis

This is managed with breast augmentation alone or periareolar lift- (crescent or doughnut lift)

Grade 2 & 3 ptosis

This requires a Lollipop lift or anchor lift. In patients seeking for increase in volume, simultaneous augmentation with implant and breast lift is performed.

Crescent lift

This procedure involves removal of skin at the top of areola. This technique is reserved for minimal sagging.

Benelli/Doughnut lift

A doughtnut shaped incision is made around areola and excess skin removed and the skin sutured in purse string manner. This technique is suitable for mild sagging.

Lollipop lift

Vertical Scar Lift. An incision is made from breast crease to around the areola. This lift is for low hanging breasts or moderate ptosis.

Anchor lift

Along with Lollipop incision, an incision is extended along the breast crease. This technique is suitable for severe sagging.

Post operative care for breast lift surgery

Immediately after the surgery
  • Mastopexy is a day care surgery that means after the surgery in the morning, you will be discharged by evening or night on the same day.

  • You may feel some soreness, bruising, swelling in the operated area up to a week, which will be minimized with the aid of painkillers.

  • Scar reduction creams and moisturizers would be prescribed to keep the scars moist and supple.
The weeks that follow
  • Ensure that you don’t sleep on your face or tummy.

  • Avoid raising your arms above 30 degrees for 1-2 weeks.

  • You will be advised to wear a supportive bra 24/7 for a period of 4-6 weeks. Avoid underwired bra for 6 weeks.

  • Avoid lifting heavy weights beyond 3 kgs and exercises for 4-6 weeks.
Full recovery timeline
  • You will be taught lymphatic massages in the second week to be followed for a period of 6 weeks. This helps in healing process, softens the skin, reduces the lumps and bumps in the breast.

  • You can go back to work in 7 to 10 days.

  • Initially the breasts may appear a little unnatural, lifted high up. They  firm up with massages and over a period of 6-8 weeks after which they look natural & youthful.

You ask, we answer.

Breast Lift surgery is usually a day care surgery. It means that your surgery is scheduled in the morning, you will be discharged by evening or night on the same day.

You can go back to work in 7 to 10 days.

Like any other surgery, mastopexy may be associated with complications like bleeding and infection, altered sensations are usually temporary and return over a period of time. On some occasions, there may be a slight asymmetry of breast. Wound breakdowns can occur in diabetes and smokers or obese patients and requires prolonged dressings.

Seroma (collection of fluid), hematoma (collection of blood), may occur and they resolve on their own and may require aspiration or surgery of the collection, if huge.

You can resume exercises after 6 to 8 weeks.

Crescentic and Doughnut lifts usually don’t leave any scars. Standard and vertical lift might leave a very fine line scar on the underside of your breast. This can be avoided if you follow the scar modulation regime instructed by your surgeon in the postoperative period.

Usually most of the patients need only one lift in their lifetime. The results hold good usually for a period of 10-15 years. However, remember that the breasts age constantly and sag only with the rest of the body. 

In case of only breast lift, the cup size isn’t going to alter much as only excess skin is removed resulting in perky & curved youthful looking breasts.

In case of mastopexy with breast implant, the cup size will increase proportionate to your implant volume. For every 200gm of implant added, the size of the breast may go up by a cup size.

Yes, in women who have sagging breasts and want to have a more shapely breasts without implants, a procedure called Autoaugmentation (rearranging of lower pole tissues into the upper pole gives very good results) can be performed.