Breast augmentation is a popular procedure for enhancing volume and achieving a fuller, more balanced breast appearance. However, in some cases, breast implants are not enough to achieve the desired results. Factors such as sagging caused by aging, weight loss, or pregnancy can affect the overall appearance of your breasts, making augmentation alone insufficient to meet your aesthetic goals. By combining breast implants with a breast lift, you can restore both volume and a youthful, lifted shape, ensuring a more comprehensive transformation that achieves your desired goals. Breast augmentation, commonly known as a “boob job,” consistently ranks among the top five cosmetic surgical procedures performed annually. This procedure involves the placement of saline or silicone implants to enhance breast volume and shape. Beyond increasing breast size, augmentation can create more defined cleavage, correct asymmetry for a more balanced appearance, and significantly boost self-esteem. Additionally, breast augmentation plays a crucial role in reconstructive surgery, helping individuals restore their confidence and sense of femininity after a mastectomy due to breast cancer. A breast lift, or mastopexy, is a surgical procedure designed to raise and reshape sagging breasts, restoring a more youthful and lifted appearance. Over time, factors such as aging, pregnancy, breastfeeding, weight fluctuations, and gravity can lead to a loss of skin elasticity, causing the breasts to droop. A breast lift addresses this by removing excess skin, tightening the surrounding tissue, and repositioning the nipple and areola to a more natural and elevated location. This procedure enhances the firmness and contour of the breasts, improving overall symmetry and balance. Whether you’ve always had smaller breasts or have experienced a significant loss of volume due to pregnancy or weight loss, breast augmentation with implants can help enhance your breast size and provide the fullness you desire. However, adding volume alone may not always achieve the results you’re aiming for. Factors like weight loss, pregnancy, or aging can lead to excess skin, sagging breasts, and downward-pointing nipples—issues that can only be effectively addressed with a breast lift. By combining breast implants with a lift, you can achieve fuller, firmer, and perkier breasts that align with your enhancement goals and restore a youthful, balanced appearance. While many women can achieve their breast enhancement goals with breast augmentation and implants or a breast lift alone, the combination of these procedures can often provide more comprehensive breast enhancement results. In addition to these results, a combination procedure offers additional benefits that include: If you’re thinking about breast enhancement, the team at Kramer Plastic Surgery is ready to assist. Alongside Dr. Kramer, we’ll work with you to develop a personalized breast enhancement plan that aligns with your goals, including both breast augmentation and a breast lift combination, if necessary. Contact us today at 208-344-4900 to schedule a consultation and take the first step toward achieving your desired look. Author: Dr. Jonathan Kramer A board-certified plastic surgeon in Boise, Dr. Jonathan Kramer believes that plastic surgery goes well beyond what we see physically, and that it can bring profound life-changes. He earned his MD at Emory University and completed a two-year plastic surgery fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.
Breast Augmentation: When You May Need to Add a Lift
What Is Breast Augmentation?
What Is a Breast Lift?
How Can a Lift Enhance Your Breast Augmentation?
Benefits of Having a Combination Procedure
