Breast lift and breast reduction

Need for the procedure

Sagging and/or excess breast volume
Breast ptosis and/or hypertrophy.

In both cases, a certain amount of skin will have to be removed. When the gland is too large, the necessary amount will be removed; when, on the contrary, it is flattened and spread out, it will be gathered together.

In both cases, I will rebuild a high, round mammary gland. It will most often be temporarily anchored to the pectoral muscle, and wide arm movements are not advisable for a few days. The procedure will of course be performed under general anaesthesia, and one to three days at the clinic will be necessary.

Effects of the procedure

If you are concerned about the possible effects of surgery on the mammary gland, it is important to know that current detection methods make it possible to distinguish between possible small post-surgical glandular calcifications and images suspicious of a tumour. After a clinical breast examination, it is essential from a certain age to have a pre-operative mammogram and ultrasound to make sure that everything is normal.

During the procedure, the state of the mammary gland can be examined more closely, and a cyst or suspicious fragment can be sampled, the removed fragment being examined by the pathologist under the microscope.
Very large studies have been carried out to determine whether surgery could promote the later development of breast cancer. They have always concluded that it does not, pointing out on the contrary that a number of small early cancers have been discovered or removed thanks to the cosmetic operation.
Reducing the volume of a large gland also proportionally reduces the risk of a later cancer, not to mention the fact that the constant pulling of overly heavy breasts is in itself a factor of irritation for the gland.

Overly heavy breasts also often cause poor posture and back pain, in addition to the difficulty of finding clothes. There is therefore less reason to worry about scars in this case, as the aesthetic benefit will in any case be significant.
The question of scars regains its importance in less severe cases, particularly minor ptosis, slight sagging of the breasts: the pros and cons must be weighed, and sometimes the operation should be forgone.