Breast Lift
Breast lift (also known as mastopexy) is a procedure that is intended for women who have average-sized breasts but have sagged through time. There are a lot of reasons for why sagging happens. Years of nursing will take its toll on your breasts. This is why sagging is very common for mothers. However, there are women whose breasts are not contoured aesthetically even when they don’t have children or have not nursed any of their kids. Blame it all on gravity. Because of the weight of breasts, gravity will act on them by pushing them down. This will create sagging breasts. Older women are more vulnerable of having not so tight breasts because their skin has stretched out through the years and are no longer as elastic as it used to be. You would know if you have sagging breasts because your areola will grow larger. This is another problem which breast lift attempts to correct.
Undergoing a breast lift procedure is something that women go through because they want to improve their self-image. There are times wherein we judge ourselves according to what we see in the mirror. Although you should always stay positive as much as possible, sometimes this isn’t the case. There are women who lose their self esteem because they do not appear exactly as they did a few years back. If your social life and your ability to value yourself suffers because of the way your physically see yourself, going under the knife for a breast lift procedure will only bring out a net benefit by boosting your self confidence. This is, of course, given that you keep your expectations reasonable.
Candidates for breast lift procedures are physically and emotionally healthy women. The only thing that you have to understand is that the procedure may not have long term effects for women who have huge breasts. This is because the weight of her breasts will cause the sagging to continue even with the completion of the procedure. Also, women who are planning to have more children should reserve the breast lift procedure for after their youngest child is born. This is will keep you from having to do a second breast lift procedure because of the sagging that occurs due to the pregnancy and the nursing of your child.
Going through a breast lift procedure can have its risks since it is a major surgery. The key is that you find a surgeon who is qualified and competent enough. Complications may arise especially during the administration of the anesthesia as well as containing the bleeding. You should take your doctor’s instructions very seriously if you are to avoid any kind of complication from happening. Although you may develop scars after the procedure, you can help lighten up and thin out the scars with the help of special creams. Women should quit smoking months before undergoing the procedure in order for scars to be less evident. Another risk that the procedure poses is the loss of sensation of your breasts and nipples.
During the planning stages of the operation, you should talk to your doctor about the anesthesia that will be used. Complications can arise due to anesthesia. General anesthesia will knock you out for the entire procedure while local anesthesia only numbs out the section that will be worked on and leaves you groggy enough to not feel anything but still responsive to speech and touch.
There are a number of techniques for doing mastopexy. But the principle is that the skin below the nipple is removed and skin on top is stretched down. The nipple and areola are then re-positioned and the breasts are contoured properly.
After the surgery, you may have to refrain from doing anything strenuous for at least a week and that includes work. You can usually start getting up and walking after the second day. You can still breastfeed after the operation since ducts and nipples will not be affected by the surgery.
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