BREAST LIFT PLASTIC SURGERY

About Breast Lifts

BREAST LIFT (Mastopexy) process involves removing excess skin and repositioning the remaining skin and nipples. A mastopexy, more commonly known as a breast lift, is a cosmetic surgery women choose raise and reshape sagging breasts.

The Breast Lift Surgery

The average breast lift, if preformed at your surgeons office based facility, will be usually be an outpatient surgery and take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours using a general anesthesia or local anesthetic combined with a sedative. If you are having your breast lift done in the hospital and plan to stay one to two days, again using a general anesthesia or local anesthetic combined with a sedative.

Breast Lift Side Effects & Risks

Wherever you decide to have your mastopexy performed you can be sure to experience some sort of side effect. This will be different for each patient, as all women of course have different bodies, and can range from a feeling of discomfort, temporary bruising, swelling to numbness, dry breast skin and permanent scars.

Some other risks that some women may experience are thick scars, excessive skin loss or infection. Some women who undergo a breast lift have been left with unevenly positioned nipples or to even have permanent loss of feeling in their nipples or breast altogether. This is why we at Preferred Consumer stress the fact that it of utmost importance to find a board certified plastic surgeon that you feel comfortable with before having your breast lift. re from several months to a year or more.

After Breast Lift Surgery

Once you've had your breast lift you should be feeling healthy enough to return to work in about a week, give or take a day or two. Most women stay away from any strenuous activities for up to a month. As for any scarring, fading can take anywhe

Please remember that once you have had a breast lift becoming pregnant, weight changes, aging and of course gravity itself, may cause new sagging to appear. Some women who choose to have a breast lift also have a breast augmentation at the same time to insure the results last longer.

Benefits of Breast Lift

The most appropriate candidates for breast augmentation surgery are those who are looking for improvement and not perfection. The cosmetic surgery procedure of breast augmentation can enhance one's breast size and shape, resulting in a more proportional figure. While the reasons may vary as to why one would seek breast augmentation surgery, some of the more common reasons include:

To increase the breast size, for a number of reasons including the perception that one's breast are too small;
To enhance the overall body contour, balance and proportions;
To achieve an enhanced appearance, size, projection, etc., following pregnancy and/or weight loss;
To restore appearance through reconstruction following breast surgery (i.e., mastectomy).

As with other cosmetic surgery procedures, the most appropriate candidates for breast augmentation surgery are those who are looking for improvement and not perfection. Additional factors such as being over eighteen years of age, possessing good physical and mental health, and being realistic in their expectations are additional considerations one should keep in mind while determining whether or not breast augmentation surgery is right for them.

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