Breast Lift / Reduction

Dr. Richard Hamilton performs breast lift / reduction procedures at his Adelaide, Australia practice.

Dr. Hamilton: “A breast lift or mastopexy is an operation to correct sag in the breasts. Many women, after having been pregnant, with large breasts during the breastfeeding phase, and after that’s finished, they’re left with saggy breasts and sometimes empty breasts. A mastopexy is designed to lift those breasts. Broadly speaking, we’ve got two types of patients requiring a mastopexy. Maybe even three. We’ve got those with a moderate amount of sag, and they need a lift and a bit of extra bit of volume, and for those patients I can offer a breast augmentation combined with an internal lift, which is a procedure I’ve learned from an esteemed colleague in Romania. This produces remarkable results with only the five-centimeter scar in the fold under the breast. This is really a great development. Then we’ve got those patients who require a lift and extra volume, but they’ve got too much skin. So what we’ve got to do is tailor the breast, lift the nipple up, refashion the skin envelope, and put in implant to give them extra volume and perkiness, which will give them a long-term and stable result. The final group includes those who have got sag, but they’ve got enough volume and all they need is a breast lift. Reposition the nipple, refashioning of the skin envelope, and breast parenchyma, and they’ll get a lovely result too. A breast reduction is for patients who have got oversized breasts and they are usually troubled by neck pain, shoulder strap indentation, backache, they have difficulties fitting into clothes and they feel bad about themselves. What we can do is a breast reduction procedure, which repositions the nipple, lifts the breasts, reduces volume, and reshapes the breast, and it gives them a beautiful-shaped breast that is sometimes even better than what they had previously. So that’s a great operation and a universally satisfying to patients who have had a breast reduction procedure at Hamilton House. The recovery is quick, patients have their stitches out at two weeks, they can go back to work after two weeks.”