Breast Lift Syracuse

“If your breasts are the right size but in the wrong place, it might be time to consider a breast lift in Syracuse.”

What Is Breast Ptosis?

Ptosis is the medical term for droop. For your breast, ptosis is assessed by noting how your nipple relates to the fold where your breast meets your chest wall.

Grade I: At the level of the fold.

Grade II: Below the fold.

Grade III: Pointing at the floor.

Typically, surgery can be expected to correct 1 grade of ptosis (i.e. Grade III becomes Grade II, Grade II becomes Grade I).

Choices

There are several options for breast lifting:

• Restoring volume with implants
• Removing excess breast skin
• Both implant and removal of excess skin

The popular benefit of implant surgery is the simplicity. The disadvantage (if you consider it one) is the implant.

The benefit of removing excess breast skin is that it is the most “complete” lift! The disadvantage is that there will be a scar.

If you desire a fuller figure, consider both removing excess skin & breast implant surgery. This combination procedure is called a breast augmentation with lift, or a breast lift with implants. It enhances breast size, reduces sag, and restores perkiness. Pairing a breast lift and augmentation also often only requires a single recovery period.

If you are already full figured, consider only removing excess skin using a breast lift without implants.

Implant (Augmentation) Option:

While this is the “simplest” choice, it does require placing a foreign implant into your body. For women with limited droop (Grade I and some Grade II ptosis), this is the most common treatment choice.

Removing Excess Skin

There are several ways to remove excess skin:

• Removing a “donut” of skin around the nipple.
• Removing a keyhole of skin around the nipple, with the leg of the key reaching from your nipple to your chest wall.
• Removing an “anchor” of skin, which in addition to the keyhole lift, removes a wedge of skin from beneath your breast.

“Donut” Lift:

The dark skinned area around your nipple is the areola. In the Donut Lift, a circle of skin is marked around the areola. After removing the skin, the incision is gathered around the areola, like a drawstring.

Your skin may be “lumpy” until healing is completed. Some changes in skin contour can be permanent. Because the skin of the areola is thinner, during healing, the areola can stretch, appearing larger than desired. Due to the scars, candidates for the Donut Lift often choose implant surgery instead.

“Keyhole” Lift:

This removes both excess skin around your nipple (like the donut lift) and a wedge of skin from the nipple to the fold where the breast meets the chest wall. This technique is the most common skin reducing breast lift performed. About 15-20% of women may need “touch up” surgery.

“Anchor” Lift:

If your breast is extremely “droopy” (Grade III ptosis), you may require the anchor lift. The scars are the same as for patients undergoing breast reduction surgery. While this is the most “complete” lift, it requires the longest incisions.

Scars can range from as thin as a pencil line to as thick as the pencil.

Surgery

Like augmentation only, breast lift surgery is performed as an outpatient procedure, usually under general anesthesia.

Complications of Surgery

Complications include bleeding, infection, scarring, implant malposition, and the possible need for additional surgery. Other complications are possible, but less likely.

Post-Operative Care

For all treatment choices, you will use your old bra as part of your initial dressing. Absorbent gauze is placed over any incisions. Like all surgery, some oozing is expected for the first several days of breast lift recovery. Older (stain-tolerant) comfortable clothing is recommended.

You can shower the day after surgery. Most patients can return to work within 1-2 weeks. While complete healing can take up to 1 year, most patients feel their breast have a “natural” feel in approximately 3 months.

Breast Lift Cost

Determining the price of mastopexy surgery means looking at the details of each case. The exact price of your breast lift will depend on the amount of tissue removed, the techniques used, and the total time required to perform the surgery.

Arrange a Consultation

To find out more about getting a breast lift in Syracuse and what it can do for you, contact us and request your consultation with board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Denis Branson.

 

I suppose the best compliment you can give a surgeon is referrals and returning for more. I had a few procedures eight years ago and will visit again this year. I travel from the South to see Dr. Branson. He is always learning new technology and techniques and I believe is a leader in esthetic surgical renewal (ahead of his time) My colleagues in Los Angeles (botoxed stiff) could only say how well rested I looked and that my skin was radiant. They had no clue of all that was done. And that’s just what I wanted. Can’t say enough great things about Dr. Branson’s work.