Over time, the links between the chest tissue and the front chest wall limp due to age, pregnancy, gain or loss of weight, gravitation, and structural or genetic causes, resulting in saggy breasts. These sagging breasts can be treated by a Breast Lift operation. This operation is usually performed when the breasts get shrunk due to breastfeeding after being enlarged during pregnancy, or when breasts sag and lose their aesthetic appearance. The nipple is turned downwards and sags in case of sagging breasts. At the same time, asymmetries and differences in the breasts can be corrected by performing a breast lift operation.
Before Breast Lift Operation
- The doctor must meet with the patient and discuss all the situations and make the decision accordingly.
- Mammography and ultrasound imaging should be done for patients over the age of 40, for patients who had any risk factors detected in the breasts previously like breasts lumps, or in case of the patient’s near-relatives have breast cancer situations.
- The surgery takes about 1-3 hours depending on the procedure will be performed.
- The patient should tell the doctor about the medicines she is taking. If these medicines affect the surgery, the patient should stop taking them for a certain period before the surgery.
- If the patient is a smoker, it’s recommended for her to quit smoking before the surgery to speed up the recovery process.
Breast Lift at a glance
Procedure: Breast Lift
Duration: 1-2 hour
Stay: 2-day hospital 4-day hotel
Anesthesia: General
Recovery: 7 days
Scars: under the breast, armpit, the nipple
Results: final result 3-6 months
Does the implant used in
breast lifting?
Placing implants differs depending on the size and structure of the patient’s breast. If there is no excessive sagging and the size of the breast tissue is suitable for placing the implant, we can obtain a lifted breast by only placing an implant. However, in case the breast size is significantly shrunk, only breast lifting may be insufficient. In this case, performing both breast lifting and implants placed in the same operation can provide size gain to the breast.
Before & After
Take a look at some of the results from our previous patients
Individual results may vary
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How Does Breast Lift Operation Done?
Mild sagging:
The breast is lifted by making a small incision around the nipple. The intervention is performed through the nipple by reassembling and rising the chest tissue to the top. We obtain a lifted breast.
Moderate Sagging:
If there is sagging or excessive skin in the lower part of the breast, the skin is extracted from that area to reassemble and tighten the breast. A downward extended scar will be seen under the nipple.
Significant sagging:
Certain techniques are used in this case and in the end of the operation a scar with the shape of a straight line goes down from the nipple or with the shape of an inverted (T) letter will be formed.
Because of the thinned and sag being of both, connective tissue which holds the breast and the tissue of the milk glands, the incision will be down from the nipple.
The nipple is suspended upward after tissues reassembly. Surgical drains which take the blood out in order to prevent the blood gathering inside the breast are placed after the operation.
Before Breast Lift Operation
- The doctor must meet with the patient and discuss all the situations and make the decision accordingly.
- Mammography and ultrasound imaging should be done for patients over the age of 40, for patients who had any risk factors detected in the breasts previously like breasts lumps, or in case of the patient’s near-relatives have breast cancer situations.
- The surgery takes about 1-3 hours depending on the procedure will be performed.
- The patient should tell the doctor about the medicines she is taking. If these medicines affect the surgery, the patient should stop taking them for a certain period before the surgery.
- If the patient is a smoker, it’s recommended for her to quit smoking before the surgery to speed up the recovery process.
After Breast Lifting Operation
- It is enough for the patient to stay one night in the hospital after surgery.
- Surgical drains are taken out in the 2nd day after surgery depending on the situation.
- It is recommended to wear a bra without an underwire for the first 3 months after surgery
- Breast lift surgery’s scars take its final state in about 1 year, as time goes by it takes the colour of the skin.
- Exposing the incision to the sunlight must be avoided until the surgical incision becomes white.
Even if there were pains on the first day after the operation, these pains can be easily determined as the patient will spend her first day after the operation in the hospital.
- The patient can return to her work within 7 days depending on the level of sagging.
- It is recommended to avoid heavy movements for the first three months.
- We should not forget that it is possible for breasts to sag again after the operation due to birth-giving, weight gaining and loss dramatically.
- It is possible to get swelling, numbness of the nipple and a difference in the colour of the chest skin, but all these symptoms are temporary.
- Because of the protection of milk channels and glands during the breast lift surgery, there will not be any problem in milk production.
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FAQs
After breast lift surgery, is it possible for the breast to sag again by losing weight, etc.?
Breast lift surgery does not stop aging, breasts continue to change shape by the natural aging process. However, this process is regressed slightly with breast lift surgery. During breast lift surgery, the breast and adipose tissue are lifted with tight stitches. Over time and with excessive weight loss, this fat and breast tissue shrinks and may cause some sagging.
Why breasts sag?
Breasts sag due to pregnancy, gaining or losing weight excessively and quickly. Aging, and some genetic factors.
Will be there milk production problems after breast lift surgery?
Because milk glands and ducts are not damaged during breast lift operation, women can give birth and produce milk without any problems.
After how long can I have a breast lift after giving birth?
Women can undergo breast lift surgery at the end of breastfeeding periods.
