By: Julia Aidan
Submitted: 2011-02-25 21:58:18 | Word Count: 520
Generally, people get confused between breast lift surgery and breast augmentation surgery. With a breast lift surgery, your own natural breast is elevated and raised by extracting excess body fat and skin from the breast area, that elevates and tightens the breast to increase its look. Another name for breast lift is mastopexy. Nice candidates for mastopexy are going to be happy with the sizing of their breast but not the over-all appearance. The results are generally long term but how long will be decided by a variety of factors including any future weight loss or gain, age and future pregnancies .
Females of varied ages have breast lift surgery, and it can be executed before a woman has chosen to stop having children. Since the milk duct and areola are intact, it is possible to breastfeed the baby. To understand if you are a candidate for breast lift regarding size, use the pencil test. If you can place a pencil under your breast and it will hold there, your breasts are large enough for breast lift surgery.
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There are different ways to do breast lift surgery. The surgery is said to be custom designed to meet the needs of each woman. A full mastopexy is done for quite droopy breasts. While in mastopexy, the areolar structure is moved up on the breast. Breast implant surgery may be added to breast lift procedures. If the breasts are slightly ptotic, then crescent mastopexy is performed. The vertical scar procedure is carried out for women with saggy breasts. In acute cases of droopy breasts, a vertical technique that incorporates an anchor-shaped incision is employed. However, incisions near areola are to be done in every procedure in almost any shape.
Numerous hazards under breast lift surgery are:
Nerve Damage - Although extremely uncommon, nerve damage following a breast lift can lead to numbness or changes in the level of touch sensitivity to the skin.
Reaction to Anesthesia - Reactions can also vary from experience to experience. Sufferers waking up from anesthesia might feel hot or cold, nauseous, baffled, tired, or have severe emotional reactions.
Aesthetic Dissatisfaction - Scarring and asymmetry are the most common reasons for aesthetic dissatisfaction with the results of a breast lift.
Infection - Patient may often experience fu-like symptoms, like fever. Severe ache or inflammation that may last for a number of days could as well be an indication of a bacterial infection.
Poor Wound Healing - In some cases, it simply may take longer than usual for the wound to close, bruising to cease, and swelling to go down. In more acute cases, skin necrosis, or the death of tissue, and wound separation are feasible. But if you experience prolonged bleeding, pain, leakage of fluid, or anything abnormal then you need to consult your surgeon instantly
Your expected healing time after surgery should be about a week before you can return to work or other activities and about two weeks before you can become sexually active again.
