There are multiple surgical techniques that can be used during breast lift surgery, and each one leaves different shapes of scars behind.
If you are searching for breast lift surgery in Liverpool, then one of our specialist surgeons at New Birkdale Clinic will provide you with a service that you will be happy with for many years following surgery.
Our surgeons have many years of expertise in performing all varieties of breast augmentation surgery. This includes enlargement, reduction, lifts, and areola surgery.
One thing that all of these treatments have in common is that they are surgical procedures. By choosing an experienced surgeon, you stand the best chance of receiving the best results, but you should still expect to encounter some form of scarring after your procedure.
Read on for more information on what you can expect in regards to your scarring after receiving a breast lift.
Do breast lifts always leave scars?
Unfortunately, yes, breast lift surgery will always leave behind a scar as it relies on creating an incision in the patient’s skin.
There are some forms of alternative breast lift surgery available at selected clinics that market their service as a ‘scarless breast lift’. This technique involves using ultrasound or, in some cases, electrical currents to firm up the skin surrounding the breast. However, this technique is limited in scope, and cannot produce the same level of mastopexy results as a more typical surgical technique could.
Fortunately, there are measures that you and your surgeon can take to minimise the risk of excessive scarring and help you recover faster. More experienced surgeons will often be able to produce more desirable results and this includes where scars are concerned too.
What’s more, breast lifts, and other breast surgeries where a patient is paying to improve their aesthetics, are hindered when patients receive large, visible scarring. That’s why it is important to minimise scarring and encourage best practices for healing post-surgery. This will help to leave scars that, when fully healed, are flat and white as opposed to raised and red.
If you would like to see examples of breast lifts before enquiring about a consultation, then please take a look at some of our breast lift before and after surgery pictures and read about the importance of taking good quality before and after pictures to use as comparisons post-surgery.
Breast lift surgical techniques
As mentioned, there are a number of different techniques that a surgeon may use when performing surgery. Each of these will leave behind different types of mastopexy scars in terms of size and shape.
Some techniques will only be eligible for certain patients where their case allows for it. Or, some surgeons may prefer to perform a specific surgical technique if that is what they specialise in and are capable of creating the best results with.
Some of the most popular techniques for breast lift surgery are as follows:
Lollipop
A lollipop lift is one of the most common types of breast lift surgery. The vast majority of people seeking treatment will be eligible for this procedure, and it is capable of producing great results.
With this procedure, a surgeon will create a vertical incision that runs up from the breast fold to the areola, then encircling the areola so that in total the incision resembles a lollipop.
The combination of the two of these incisions allows a surgeon to remove excess skin and excess tissue to leave the patient with lifted and firmer breasts.
Crescent
Crescent lifts are not a suitable type of breast lift treatment for everybody. This technique is only possible in patients who have minimal breast sagging due to the type of incision used.
Surgeons performing a crescent lift will make a very small incision above the areola, meaning that there will only be one small areola scar per breast.
Most often, crescent lifts are performed when a patient is seeking a very small lift as well as implants to make their breasts bigger and improve their shape.
Anchor
An anchor lift is reserved for patients who have the most excessive levels of breast sagging. Because of this, it is often infrequently used save from when it is necessary.
This procedure is so named because the incisions created, and therefore the scars left behind, resemble an anchor shape: a circular incision around the areola, a vertical incision from the areola to the breast fold, and then a horizontal incision across the breast fold.
Due to the amount of scarring that is caused by this technique, patients often prefer to receive an alternate form of treatment, with anchor lifts being the option only when it is needed for the best results.
Donut
A donut lift is unique when compared to other breast lift treatments. It is an option for patients seeking treatment for mild breast sagging, as well as receiving an areola reduction.
This is because the incision for a donut lift is circular surrounding the areola, where a lift can be performed alongside an areola reduction.
Donut lifts do leave behind noticeable scarring that completely surrounds the areola.
What makes breast lift scars worse?
You will have to follow your surgeon’s aftercare instructions in order to allow your scars to heal as best as they can. Typical aftercare includes not smoking or drinking alcohol after surgery, avoiding heavy lifting, and staying out of the sun.
If you expose yourself to UV without protection from sun cream, then this may affect the colour of your scar and make it more noticeable – especially if the skin around your scar tans because your scar tissue will not tan.
Breast lifts at New Birkdale Clinic
If you are experiencing dissatisfaction with the aesthetics of your body then don’t worry, you are not alone. We help many women just like you who are looking to improve their confidence in the way they look.
We can give you advice on the best way that you can improve the look of your breasts, so for more information then please contact one of our brilliant surgeons at our clinic and we can schedule you in for a consultation.
In this consultation, our surgeons can advise you on what treatment you will be best placed for and offer you some insight on what you can expect in terms of scarring post-treatment if that is something that is concerning you.
