With modern trends prioritizing rapid recovery and a more subtle, sexy appearance, one of the questions we’ve had recently is: Can breast preservation procedures be done with a breast lift?
And does it decrease your recovery time? The short answer is yes. For this reason and others, we believe breast preservation procedures in combination with breast lifts are going to become more and more common.
The big benefits of combining a preservation breast procedure with a breast lift are:
- Decrease recovery time — and you’re not going to feel the pressure and tightness of a sub-muscular implant.
- There’s going to be minimal trauma to the breast tissue itself, aside from the breast lift.
- You’re going to be able to have more control over the breast implant placement.
I think this is going to be key, because you’re preserving the natural ligaments, i.e., the natural ‘internal bra’, with the breast preservation procedure. And by doing this, you’re going to preserve as much of the natural strength of the breast as possible to support the implant and keep them in a great spot.
In the past, there was some hesitation by many plastic surgeons about putting a breast implant above the muscle in a breast lift, over concerns of preserving the blood supply. Using the preservation procedure, which does not cut into the blood vessels, which preserves the natural anatomy and ligaments of the breast, you can diminish that concern and focus on the breast lift.
The other reason that I think you’re going to see more and more breast lifts in combination with breast preservation procedures is that you’re able to give some of the functional fullness that patients want in that upper pole, medial cleavage, but you’re not having to use a large implant.
And so being able to support that implant, maybe use a smaller implant to achieve the end shape that you want of the breast, I think, is going to be absolutely key.
