Over time, your breasts may start drooping, due to too much skin or too sagging skin. Exercises to strengthen the pectoral muscle unfortunately have no effect on drooping breasts, because the problem lies in sagging skin and not a sagging muscle. Does it bother or annoy you? Then a breast lift - also known as mastopexy - may be a solution for you. In this article, I would like to give you more information about it.
What causes drooping breasts?
Pendulous breasts occur if you have lost a lot of weight, after breastfeeding, or simply because the elasticity of the skin decreases with age. Topless sunbathing accelerates the ageing process, just as an ill-fitting bra due to insufficient support can also cause stretching or sagging of the skin and thus pendulous breasts. In general, less firm or drooping breasts (also called breast ptosis in a medical term) are often an ageing phenomenon. As the years pass, the elasticity of the skin decreases and the mammary gland starts to sag. In this, we distinguish mild, moderate and pronounced breast ptosis. With a breast lift the bosom is made firmer and tighter again.
What is a breast lift?
In a breast lift, I remove the excess breast skin. I make an incision (incision) around the nipple and possibly also - depending on how much excess skin there is - a vertical incision below the nipple. I then attach the drooping mammary gland to the chest, after which the skin around the gland is modelled. It is possible to slightly reposition the breast through the same opening during surgery enlarge with a breast implant or your own fat. This makes the breast somewhat fuller and less skin needs to be removed. An additional advantage is that it keeps the upper pole filling of the breast beautiful. After breast lifting and possible augmentation, the wounds are sutured with a very fine thread, which dissolves on its own after about a week and a half. The operation takes place under general anaesthesia or under sedation (intoxication).
