• Where do they cut for a breast lift?

I am a 22 year old female. I want to know where do they cut for a breast lift?

6 Answers

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Poughkeepsie, NY

Depending on skin excess and level of ptosis, may have a vertical incision or a vertical and inframammary line incision.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • New York, NY

There are multiple options for incision for a breast lift. After evaluation, your surgeon can recommend treatment options best suited to you, and yes, sometimes no treatment or surgery is needed.
Best wishes.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Sarasota, FL

The breast lift scar looks like an anchor. The scar will end up being a fine white line after 3-6 months of healing

  • Plastic Surgeon | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Marietta, GA

There are many surgical approaches to performing a breast lift, also known as a mastopexy. However, most approaches at least involve an incision, or cut, around the areola, called a periareolar incision. A popular mastopexy, called a vertical mastopexy, includes both a periareolar incision as well as a vertical incision extending down from that toward the inframammary fold. This combination of cuts is also called a lollipop mastopexy. Finally, for significant skin excess requiring maximum control of the breast skin envelope to achieve the lift, there may also be a horizontal cut along the breast fold, called the inframammary fold. So, this scar pattern is called an anchor scar pattern or inverted-T. For this most extensive scar pattern for a mastopexy, you achieve contour at the cost of more scars, but these are easily concealed in swimwear or in a bra.

Nirav B. Patel, MD, JD, FCLM

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Beachwood, OH

Depending on your skin quality and aesthetic goals the incisionswould be one of following:
• Periareolar incision: made around the outer perimeter of the areola (nipple).
• Vertical or lollipop incision: made around the areola and vertically down to the breast crease.
• Anchor-shaped incision: uses the periareolar and lollipop incisions as well as a third incision that extends horizontally underneath the natural breast crease

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • New York, NY

Yes. Look up the anchor approach

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