If you’re looking to improve the size, shape, or position of your breasts, cosmetic breast surgery is a great solution. With so many techniques available, you can achieve a perfectly perky and youthful look that many of us lose due to things like age, pregnancy, breastfeeding, or genetics.
Two popular cosmetic breast procedures are breast lifts and breast augmentation. While both can change the look and feel of your breasts, they have two different methods and end goals. Because of this, it can be tricky to know which can help you get the look you’re going for.
At Best Impression Cosmetic Surgery in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, our team, led by Vivian M. Hsu, MD, offers both breast augmentation and breast lift surgery. This month’s blog examines how each procedure works and how to determine which is right for you.
Breast lift surgery is a cosmetic procedure that aims to restore shape, volume, and fullness to breasts that droop or sag. Many things can cause your breasts to sag and your nipples to point downward, including significant weight loss, pregnancy, breastfeeding, aging, and genetics.
During a breast lift, Dr. Hsu can lift your breasts, reshape your breast tissue, remove sagging skin, and reposition your nipples and areolas. There are many different breast lift techniques that can give your breasts a more perky, rounded, and youthful appearance.
Breast augmentation — commonly referred to as a “boob job” — seeks to increase the size of your breasts by placing implants made of either silicone or saline underneath your breast tissue and chest muscles.
The implant size can be customized to fit the exact specifications you want. While silicone implants offer a more natural feel, saline implants are more cost-friendly and easier to monitor over time.
This cosmetic surgery can be helpful for you if you feel your breasts are small, flat, or asymmetric.
The type of cosmetic procedure you choose for your breast transformation ultimately depends on not only your concerns but also your anatomy and end goals.
A breast lift focuses solely on lifting your breasts higher on your chest, effectively addressing saggy or drooping breast tissue along with nipples that point downward. However, breast lift surgery can’t make your breasts larger. This procedure can only restore a youthful position.
The goal of breast augmentation is to increase the size of your breasts or make them more symmetric by placing implants, so this procedure alone can’t address sagging breasts.
If you have multiple concerns about the appearance of your breasts, you may want to consider combining the two procedures for total breast transformation. This allows you to achieve optimal breast fullness from the implants along with a youthful breast position from the lift.
To learn more about how we can help you boost your self-confidence with breast cosmetic procedures, schedule a consultation with Dr. Hsu by calling our office at (610) 272-8821 or using our online booking feature today.
