Decide Which Particular Breast Lift Procedure is Right for You - By: Dave Stringham

There are a couple of internationally renowned surgeons that are known throughout the world for their outstanding ability to create beautiful, shapely breasts. At their practices, they performs breast lift surgery for discriminating patients. A breast lift, or mastopexy, is a surgical procedure designed to perform the same role as a properly fitting bra, namely supporting the breast in an uplifted position, revealing more fullness, shape, and cleavage. A breast lift generally removes only excess and loose skin, as compared to breast reduction, which reduces the amount of actual breast tissue besides skin reduction.

Additional considerations must also be understood in deciding which particular breast lift technique will be used. The circumareolar or "donut" mastopexy is reserved for minimal type lifts and will tend to decrease projection making the breast somewhat rounder and flatter across the front. This may be especially desirable to breast lift patients with overly pointed or projected breasts to start with. The addition of the vertical incision, while mandatory in some cases, will tend to add some projection to the breast. Hence, the initial shape, projection, and amount of sagging of the breast must all be taken into consideration as well as the wishes and expectation of the patient before making a final decision as to which technique is to be used.

There are also those women who wish additional fullness to the upper aspect of the breasts, more than what can be achieved by breast lift alone and those who desire breast enlargement/augmentation concurrent with their breast lift procedure. For these women, a breast implant may be placed at the same time as the breast lift procedure. A smaller, more conservative implant would be used for additional upper breast fullness whereas a larger implant would be used for overall breast augmentation.

"Auto" breast augmentation with the breast lift procedure is a newer technique to help maintain fullness in the upper portion of the breast using your own tissues. One of the problems very common with many breast lift procedures performed alone is a flatness or lack of fullness in the upper area of the breast. This deficiency in the upper breast area occurs gradually over several months as the repositioned breast tissue settles and succumbs to gravity. Some surgeons refer to this as "bottoming out" of the breast. "Auto" augmentation is a procedure that uses a portion of the internal breast tissue, left connected to the chest wall and its blood supply, which is then passed up and under a two-inch bridge of pectoralis muscle and secured. This acts to keep fullness in the upper breast and acts as a small, "natural" breast implant.

About the Author

Dave Stringham, the President of LookingYourBest.com writes about plastic surgery in Miami, Florida and cosmetic breast surgery procedures such as miami breast lift, breast augmentation, breast reconstruction, breast reduction, and male breast reduction.

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