Breast Aesthetics and Breast Lift Surgery
Look at your breasts in the mirror. If your nipples are above your breast fold line, everything is fine. If it goes down to the level of this line, it can be said that you have mild breast sagging, and if it is below this line, you have severe breast sagging. This indicates that one day you may need breast lift surgery (you can also use the names mastopexy or breast lift surgery). In particular, nipples that point right down indicate the severity of the situation.
Breast Lift
Aesthetic Breast: Why Do Breasts Sagging?
There could be many reasons for this. There is a decrease in breast tissue due to hormonal reasons due to aging. This causes the breast to empty and sag. Breastfeeding mothers are also more prone to sagging. Breasts enlarge when full of milk and are discharged by breastfeeding. When this is repeated over and over, the breasts naturally sag. In addition, gravity pulls the breasts down, causing them to sag. In some cases, sagging begins at a very early age and is completely caused by the congenital weakness of the ligaments that carry the breast.
Are There Possible Solutions Without Surgery?
Unfortunately. There is no known method to recover sagging breasts yet. Do not think that the breasts are sagging due to weak chest muscles and that they will get erect with sports. Anatomically, the chest muscle and breast sagging are not related. You can make many improvements in your body with sports, but breast lift is not one of them.
Surgery: Cuts And Scars:
Breast lift surgery is actually an operation that gives very good results if done well. It is of course possible to reshape the breast, to completely remove the sagging, and to enlarge or reduce the breast at the same time. But the price of all this is the scars left on the breast. A surgical technique that can lift the breast without leaving a scar is not known yet.
The techniques used leave a scar that extends around the entire circumference of the nipple where it meets the skin and extending under the breast. This scar continues under the breast in classical techniques and continues on the lower fold line.
In newer techniques, this subtrace is not always done.
Generally, we can accept that the more saggy the breast, the longer the scars left.
What is the difference between breast lift and breast reduction surgeries? Basically, the only difference is that the breast tissue is removed and the breast is reduced in one, and only the sagging is removed in the other. Technically, both surgeries are very close to each other.
Who Should Have This Surgery:
In fact, the surgery can be seen as the conversion of one aesthetic problem (sagging) to another (trace). Therefore, this surgery may not be preferred for everyone. If the sagging of your breasts is moderate, if you think that you will be seriously disturbed by the scars, it should be considered again before having this surgery. But if you have severely sagging breasts and you say nothing can be worse than this, this surgery is suitable for you. At the end of the surgery, you will have erect and shaped breasts of the size you want.
How bothered by the scars is also a very personal matter. My observation is that my patients with saggy breasts do not worry about these scars as much as I expected. I have never had a patient who said that I was very unhappy with my scars because I did this surgery very selectively. But it should be kept in mind that this surgery leaves more scars than other surgeries, and the extent to which these scars will be evident will be related to the recovery factors of the patient.