Loss of skin elasticity, gravity and other factors such as weight loss, pregnancy and breast feeding ultimately affect the shape and firmness of your breast. Pregnancy and breast feeding may have significant and unpredictable effects on the size and shape of your breast.

Some patients may be unhappy that they have lost a significant amount of breast volume overtime. In such cases, implants inserted in conjunction with a breast lift can increase breast size at the same time as the shape and position of the breast are enhanced. A breast lift can performed at any age, but plastic surgeons usually recommend waiting until breast development has stopped.

If you are generally satisfied with their current size of their breast can have a breast lift procedure only for the purpose to raise and firm them, resulting in a more youthful contour. For others a combo treatment of breast augmentation and lift will satisfy your demand.

A common method of lifting the breast involves three incisions. One incision is made around the areola. Another runs vertically from the bottom edge of the areola to the crease underneath the breast. The third incision is horizontal beneath the breast and follows the natural curve of the breast crease. After the plastic surgeon has removed excess breast skin, the nipple and areola are shifted to a higher position.

The areola, which in a sagging breast may have been stretched, can be reduced in size. Skin that was formerly located above the areola is brought down and together beneath it to reshape the breast. The nipples and areolas remain attached to underlying mounds of tissue, and this usually allows for the preservation of sensation and the ability to breast feed.

Some of the potential complications include bleeding, infection and reactions to anesthesia. Following a breast lift, sometimes the breast may not be perfectly symmetrical or the nipple height may vary slightly. Minor adjustments often can be made at a later time. Permanent loss of sensation in the nipples or areas of breast skin may occur rarely. Reversionary surgery may sometimes be helpful in certain instances where incisions may have healed poorly.