When getting a mommy makeover, how do I know if I need a breast lift or implants?

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When contemplating cosmetic surgery of any kind, it’s natural to feel a little nervous about what you can expect through the recovery process and onward to the final result. Patients who are anticipating a more ambitious, complicated, or combination procedure are more likely to be worried about the expense, recovery, outcome, and possible complications. During a recent Instagram Live session with the founder and Chief Medical Officer of Atlantic Coast Aesthetics, Dr. Thomas Pane, a viewer asked: “When getting a mommy makeover, how do I know if I need a breast lift or implants, and if I have a breast lift, how many cup sizes will I lose?” This is a great question because it allows Dr. Pane to cover a lot of ground and a lot of facets of cosmetic surgery at once, to give a more comprehensive answer.

With regard to implants, specifically, the need or lack thereof for them will depend on a couple of factors. When you combine a breast lift with implants, this is one of the higher complication rate procedures ACA does. With that said, our rate is pretty low.

If you have what is known as grade 3 ptosis of the nipple, where the nipple is pointing at the floor, that’s too much drooping to do an implant at the same time as a lift. The key determining factor is in how high you’re raising the nipple area. If it needs to be raised more than about 6-7cm, especially when implants are done at the same time, there can be problems such as sagging of the breast over the implant, and then the implant has to be redone.

Another, more serious problem is that things can break down and lead to a healing problem. In many cases, this is relatively minor. The tissue breaks down and then reheals, but not quite as intended. One of the more serious versions of this is the exposure of the implant. That doesn’t usually happen in cases where patients avoid cigarettes after surgery or the surgeon doesn’t try to push too hard to make the implant/lift combination work.