For People That Have Breasts That Don't Fit Their Self Image A Breast Lift May Help



Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

by Dave Stringham
LookingYourBest.com

There are few internationally recognized plastic surgeon who are known throughout the world for their outstanding abilities to create shapely, beautiful breasts. At their plastic surgery offices, they perform breast lift surgery for discriminating patients. A mastopexy, or breast lift, is a cosmetic surgery procedure designed to provide the same role as a properly fitting bra would, namely supporting the breast in an uplifted position. In turn, that would reveal more shape, fullness, and cleavage. A breast lift typically removes only the excess and loose skin, as compared to a reduction mammoplasty, which cuts away and reduces the actual tissue of the breast tissue besides reducing the skin.

From around the world, many women have chosen to receive a mastopexy, particularly those whose breast contour and shape does not fit the image they hold for themselves. Body image is a vital part of feeling normal, good, and desirable. Many women compare themselves to that of their cultures' idea of beauty. Often women with sagging breasts with stretched, loose skin are unhappy with their physical appearance. These changes can be a result of genetics, pregnancy, aging, weight loss, or any combination of those things.

The ideal candidate for a breast lift procedure, or mastopexy, is a person who is uncomfortable with the amount of sagging and loose skin on her breasts. The ideal mastopexy patient is also free of any troubling pre-existing medical conditions including diabetes, skin/connective tissue disorders, heart disease, hypertension, etc.

There are many mastopexy centers that offer several techniques to reshape and lift the breast and reposition the nipple. The amount of loose skin and sagging, the size of the breasts, and the patient expectations will all help determine the extent of the mastopexy incisions. You may also reduce the size of your areola (the pigmented area around the nipple) if you desire.

A "keyhole" or "anchor" shaped incision is the standard technique used for a mastopexy. The scars/incisions for this procedure extend in three basic areas: Horizontally along the area of the fold or crease under the breast extending for a variable length; from the areola in a vertical direction down to the fold or crease under the patient's breast; Entirely around the areola (the pigmented area around the nipple).

A minimal scar mastopexy procedure brings together several newer techniques aimed at reducing scars. A circumareolar or "donut" breast lift results in a scar that is only around the areola (the pigmented area around the nipple). The "lollipop" or circumareolar-certical mastopexy type of incision produces a scar that extends from around the areola and vertically down to the natural crease that is under the breast.

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Dave Stringham, the President of LookingYourBest.com writes about plastic surgery in Miami, Florida and cosmetic breast surgery procedures like miami breast lift, breast augmentation, breast reconstruction, breast reduction, and male breast reduction.
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