Breast Lift
(Mastopexy)
Breast Lift in Athens
At Pittman Plastic Surgery in Athens, GA, we specialize in transforming your natural beauty with expert breast lift procedures. Under the skilled hands of Dr. Ed Pittman, a board-certified plastic surgeon, we rejuvenate your silhouette by restoring youthful perkiness to breasts affected by loss of elasticity. Our mastopexy surgery aims to rejuvenate and enhance your natural contours, restoring firmness to the breasts and boosting your self-confidence. Embark on a transformational journey with us and revitalize the youthful shape and lift of your breasts.
What is Breast Lift?
A breast lift, or mastopexy, is a cosmetic procedure aimed at elevating and reshaping sagging breasts. It involves the removal of extra skin and tightening the nearby tissue to restore the breasts to a firmer, perkier appearance, to create a more youthful breast contour.
How Does Breast Lift Work?
A breast lift, or mastopexy, works by raising and reshaping breasts that have lost their shape and firmness over time. During the procedure, a surgeon removes the extra skin that causes the sagging and tightens the surrounding tissue. An incision is typically made around the areola to excise the excess skin. If there’s significant drooping, the nipples may be moved to a higher, more natural position. After the necessary adjustments, the surgeon stitches the skin together resulting in more youthful-looking, uplifted breasts. The surgical techniques and incisions can vary, so discussing your specific goals and options with a plastic surgeon is essential to determine the best approach for you. Wearing a special bra supports healing and helps maintain the new breast contour.
Benefits of a Breast Lift Treatment
A breast lift provides several benefits that enhance both the appearance and feel of your breasts. Post-surgery, you’ll notice your breasts looking firmer and sitting higher on your chest, which results in a more youthful appearance. This procedure is especially helpful for women who have experienced changes in their breasts due to factors like weight fluctuations or pregnancy, helping clothing to fit more flattering as it restores lost volume.
Key benefits of a breast lift include a rounder shape and more symmetrical positioning, leading to a visually appealing bustline. The surgery can also resize and reshape enlarged areolas and nipples to complement your renewed breast shape, contributing to a sleeker profile.
Breast Lift vs. Other Treatments
Breast enhancement procedures, often referred to as mammoplasties, encompass a variety of surgical techniques aimed at altering the breast’s appearance:
-A breast lift, or mastopexy, is surgically undertaken to elevate and firm up drooping breasts.
-For those desiring larger busts, breast augmentation, also known as augmentation mammoplasty, offers a solution to enhance breast size and balance.
-Conversely, breast reduction, or reduction mammoplasty, provides relief for women who experience discomfort from overly large and heavy breasts by reducing their size and alleviating associated neck and shoulder pain.
-Meanwhile, breast reconstruction serves as a restorative procedure for women who have undergone a mastectomy as part of their breast cancer treatment, reconstructing the breast shape post-removal.
In comparison breast lifts stand apart as a popular option for those not necessarily looking to alter the size of their breasts but rather to correct the positioning and improve contour, resulting in a more youthful and uplifted breast profile.
Candidates for Breast Lift
A Mastopexy, or breast lift, is performed to lift and reshape your breasts. Nursing, pregnancy, gravity, and significant weight gain or loss can cause breasts to lose their firmness and shape over time. A Breast Lift addresses this sagging and inevitable loss of self-confidence.
Your surgeon can also remove excess skin and restore enlarged nipple-areolar complexes to a smaller size, while re-positioning them on the breast. Breast lifts are commonly performed in conjunction with Breast Augmentation surgery, to give you fuller, more youthful breasts.
Breast Lift PROCEDURE
A Breast Lift procedure is performed under general anesthesia. Surgery will typically take two to three hours at our private, fully accredited AAAHC Surgical Facility, offering our patients comfort and convenience, while also saving them time and costs associated with hospital-based surgeries.
Breast Lift rECOVERY & RESULTS
For the first month after your procedure, you will be placed under restrictions on any strenuous upper-body or exercise activity. It is also required for patients to wear a surgical bra consistently for several weeks post-surgery. You can go back to work in one week but must avoid strenuous activities for 1 month. Your scars from the procedure will fade over the course of several months to a year.
Before, during, and after
What To Expect Before a Breast Lift Treatment
Before your breast lift, Dr. Pittman will guide you through a detailed consultation to align with your personal goals and determine the best approach. A thorough health assessment will be conducted with comprehensive lab tests. To mitigate potential bleeding or bruising risks, patients are asked to refrain from taking aspirin anti-inflammatory drugs and all herbal supplements.
What To Expect During a Breast Lift Treatment
During breast lift surgery, the patient will be given general anesthesia. The procedure is expected to last around 2-3 hours at our accredited surgical facility. Dr. Pittman will skillfully reshape the breast tissue to improve its contour and firmness. The nipple and areola will be repositioned to a more youthful and natural-looking height, and if necessary, the areola size can be reduced. Excess skin will be removed to compensate for any loss of elasticity. The operation concludes with meticulous suturing for a smooth, tight finish that enhances the breast’s new shape.
What To Expect After a Breast Lift Treatment
Post-breast lift, it’s normal to experience some swelling and tenderness. Take prescribed pain relief as needed and wear a support bra. Keeping incision sites clean and following care directions ensures a smoother recovery. Typically, you can resume light activities within days, with sutures removed after 5-10 days. Avoid strenuous actions like heavy lifting. Follow-up appointments are vital to monitor your healing progress, which includes reduced swelling and fading scars over the following weeks.
Frequently Asked Questions
A mastopexy (breast lift) surgery is a permanent procedure. However, we cannot stop the aging process and the normal aging process, including gravity, will affect your breast in the future.
Ptosis (sagging) is extremely normal. Some of the more common reasons that women experience breast ptosis is pregnancy, breast size, genetics, and the aging process.
Yes! A common combination is to combine a lift with a breast augmentation by inserting an implant. This is only for those individuals that want more fullness in their breast to accompany their lift.
A breast lift procedure doesn’t increase the volume of your breasts, but it reshapes and raises them. Due to age, weight changes, or pregnancy, breasts might sag or droop. This surgery removes excess skin and lifts your breasts, making them look firmer and potentially more noticeable. Hence, although their size remains unchanged, they may seem fuller and more youthful post-lift.
While breast lift surgery is generally safe, it’s important to understand that like any surgical procedure, there may be potential risks and complications involved. These can include the rare likelihood of infection and adverse reactions to anesthesia. Under the care of an experienced, board-certified plastic surgeon such as Dr. Pittman, these risks are significantly reduced, ensuring the highest safety standards are met during the procedure.
Most women retain feeling in the nipple and areola area after the procedure, and breastfeeding is still possible for those who undergo a breast lift.
Several varieties of breast lift techniques are available to address various levels of sagging. Among them, the crescent lift is particularly suited for individuals with minimal sagging—it requires just a small incision along the top half of the areola. For cases of mild droopiness, the peri-areolar or “Donut” lift might be recommended, which involves a circular incision around the areola creating a single scar. On the other hand, the vertical or “lollipop” lift is an option that works well for more pronounced reshaping. This method uses two incisions: one encircling the areola and another stretching vertically to the breast crease, forming a pattern akin to a lollipop. The choice of technique depends on the extent of lift needed as well as the breasts’ unique size and shape.
Breast lift surgery typically involves making cuts around the nipple area, vertically down the breast, or in an anchor-like pattern that extends under the nipple and along the breast’s natural crease. With precise closure techniques and proper care during the healing process, these scars often become much less noticeable over time. The visibility of the scars after healing can vary, with some individuals finding them to be minimally visible, depending on the skin type.
FROM OUR PATIENTS
“My results…. I was a stage “3 drooper” going in…. breastfeeding had wrecked my breasts and I am too young to be seeing what I saw in the mirror.
I didn’t think that I could go into this expecting to look like a 20 year old again but let me tell you, I was wrong.
My breasts are better now than they ever were and I can’t believe it! Not only that, they don’t look unnatural at all… they are perfect!!!!!! Dr. P is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!”
“Dr. Pittman and his staff were totally professional, positive, and caring during my pre-op visits, surgery, and aftercare visits.
Having surgery is never easy, but they did a great job of putting me at ease and explaining what was going to happen and what to expect during recovery and as I continued to heal.
I highly recommend Dr. Pittman to anyone who is considering plastic surgery. I had both a breast reduction/lift and upper and lower eyelids done during one surgery and couldn’t be happier with the results and the skill and care of this surgeon and his outstanding staff.”
“I just wanted you and Dr. P to know how much I appreciate the care I was given during my recent surgery!
I was a little nervous (ok… A lot nervous!) regarding the invasiveness and stitches involved with the “lift”, but I must say I was astonished at how quickly I felt completely back to normal!
In fact, my biggest challenge has been to dial it back a notch and remember I’m still ” recovering”. “
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