Breast Lift and Breast Lift with Implants

Perth, Western Australia

Breast lift is a surgical procedure designed to revise and reshape sagging breasts, which can include breast implants.

Who is a Candidate for a Breast Lift?

• Sagging breasts with loose stretched skin, especially after pregnancy.
• Loss of upper breast fullness and firmness.
• Nipples are usually below the breast crease and pointing downwards.
• Large nipples and areolae.
• Desire for a firmer, more youthful appearance of the breasts.

 

The Procedure

 

1. Breast Lift

• General anaesthesia is used and the surgery takes about three hours.
• Incisions depend on the size and contour of the breasts.  Usually the incisions are located around the areolae and in a vertical line extending down from the nipple and sometimes along the lower breast crease.
• Excess skin is removed and the breast gland is lifted to a higher position on the chest wall.
• The nipples and areolae are elevated to a higher position and sometimes reduced in diameter.
• Soft, small drains may be used for one day to remove excess fluid.
• The skin incisions are sutured with buried dissolvable sutures.

2. Breast Lift with Implants

• If upper fullness and more size are desired, an implant can be inserted at the same time.
• The breast implants used are cohesive gel, which can either have a round or anatomical (tear drop) shape.  The implants may also have a smooth or rough (textured) surface.
• The breast implants are inserted into a pocket either directly under the breast on top of the muscle or behind the muscle.

3. Recovery after a Breast Lift

• You will usually stay in hospital overnight and go home the next day.
• You can shower over the dressings, the day after surgery.
• Most patients experience mild pain for the first two days that is mostly gone by the third day and easily controlled by medications.
• Swelling is mild to moderate for the first week, after which it disappears.
• Usually only very mild or no bruising.
• Resume many activities within the first week and most activities by at least three weeks.
• No sutures to remove as they are all dissolvable.
• Off work for approximately one to two weeks, depending on the surgery and the activity of your work.

4. Results from a Breast Lift

• Elevated, full breasts with an improved shape.
• Firmer breasts with upper fullness.

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