Mastopexy (Breast lift)

Mastopexy is a surgical breast lift that allows you to solve the problem of breast ptosis, restore the volume of the mammary glands, and perform aesthetic correction of the nipples and areolas.

Indications for mastopexia

The main indication for surgery is loss of elasticity of the breast skin, ptosis of the mammary glands due to sudden weight loss, pregnancy or breastfeeding. Especially important for women is breast lift after childbirth, when breast prolapse is inevitable in many cases.

It is important to note that breast augmentation and breast lift are not interchangeable operations: mammoplasty does not solve the problem of breast ptosis, but only restores breast volume using implants.

Therefore, the surgeons frequently recommend to perform mastopexy with endoprosthetics - that is, to do a breast lift and augmentation mammoplasty at the same time. The result of such an operation gives a more pronounced aesthetic effect: the placement of implants makes the breast more attractive and voluminous, and the correction of the breast shape makes the breast tighter and pulls it upward. After the operation, the function and erogenous sensitivity of the breast are preserved.

Breast lifting methods

With any variant of breast lift, the essence of breast correction remains the same: the effect is achieved by removing excess skin and moving the nipple-areola complex upward.

Breast lift can be performed using the following techniques:

• circular access (around the areola)

• circumvertical approach (from the areola to the inframammary fold);

• T-shaped access (vertically along the circumference of the areola and further along the breast fold).

The most optimal technique is determined by the surgeon depending on the degree of breast ptosis of the patient and on the following factors:

• breast size and shape;

• the condition of the nipple-areola complex, desires towards correction;

• elasticity of the breast skin;

• volume of tissues to be removed.
  

When carrying out mastopexy, the surgeon always tries to get minimal tissue trauma, because the main purpose of breast lift is the beauty of the breast, its appearance.