Surgical Improvement of Augmentation Mastopexy
Augmentation Mastopexy – breast augmentation combined with a breast lift – is a procedure that not only adds volume to your breasts, but also aligns the breast tissue and the breast implant. When standing upright, your breast tissue should be centered on, or very slightly below the center of the implant.
Typical patients requiring this procedure are women who used to have very large breasts and have lost the volume either following massive weight loss, or after pregnancy. While less common, it is possible for some women to have naturally sagging/deflated looking breasts even though they never lost volume from their breasts.
This procedure requires careful surgical planning before surgery, and flexibility to adjust the plan during surgery because it is never 100% possible to predict how the breast tissue will sit over the implant. Thus all patients are seen before the surgery where I makes the surgical markings for the breast augmentation and a breast lift. A typical procedure involves first placing an implant into a sub-muscular (under muscle) or sub-glandular (over muscle) space. I then sit the patient up during the surgery and adjust my breast lift plan to fit the now augmented breast. This allows for the best possible cosmetic outcome for these select group of patients. Some surgeons chose to do a breast augmentation first and then do a breast lift later. This approach, on the other hand, allows me to get everything done in one session. Quicker results. Lower cost (compared to having to separate surgeries).
During your Breast Augmentation consultation at the Toronto Cosmetic Surgery Institute, we will examine your existing breast anatomy and discuss with you the options that may be available to improve your breast shape. However, the intention will not be to give you a perfectly symmetrical and perky chest, but a beautiful breast enhancement that gives the impression of a more symmetrical lifted breasts.
What if I do not want a lift?
Some would rather have somewhat droopy breasts than get the scars of a breast lift. Although I am biased, if I feel the breast lift scars are a better look than droopy breasts, I will let you know. If you still decline to get a lift, we are able to proceed with your understanding that your breasts will not be lifted. This is not the end of the road, however. If after several months you decide that the sagging bothers you to a point that are willing to have the scars of a lift, you are able to come back to us and get a delayed breast lift performed.