When your breasts start to droop … the breast elevator

The ravages of time affect buildings, our car, nature, but certainly also our bodies. Due to a combination of gravity and the changed composition of our breasts, sooner or later they start drooping. Fortunately, with a breast elevator, we can elevator and firm your breasts.

Why do breasts start drooping sooner or later?

No matter how well you train your pectoral muscles, these exercises are useless anyway to prevent the drooping of your breasts. That’s because: a breast is made up of glandular tissue, fatty tissue and skin. When you’re young, you tend to have more glandular tissue. As you get older, the glandular tissue gradually disappears after pregnancies and menopause. Proportionally, more fatty tissue remains, which – unlike muscle tissue – you cannot exercise. In addition, the skin loses its elasticity.

As a result, gravity does its work and the breast starts to droop. The only way to counteract this natural process is a breast elevator. This involves both lifting and firming the breast.

When to choose a breast elevator?

Are you (still) happy with your cup size, but think your breasts are drooping too much? Then a breast elevator (or mastopexy) is a good option. In particular, if your nipple has sagged to the level or lower than your inframammary fold you are eligible.

Not only do you find that your breasts droop too much, but you would also like a larger cup size? Then we combine the breast elevator with a prosthesis. This can be done in the same procedure or afterwards.

As an alternative to the silicone prosthesis, you can also opt for lipofilling. This involves inserting your own fat removed from your abdomen into the breasts. However, the predictability of this augmentation is less than with a prosthesis. Also read our blog about lipofilling.

How does a breast elevator work?

In a breast elevator, we raise the nipple, remove excess skin and rearrange the glandular tissue to create the most beautiful breast possible.

The scar left by this procedure depends on the extent of the breast elevator. For a limited breast elevator, a donut pexie or periareolar pexie is sufficient. This procedure can be done under local anesthesia and results only in a circular scar at the edge of the areola. In a full breast elevator under general anesthesia – when the breasts droop more – we must raise the nipple and remove more skin. This creates a vertical scar under the areola. If there is very much excess skin, a horizontal scar in the fold may be necessary with what is called an anchor scar or inverted-T scar.

Wondering if a breast elevator is an ideal procedure for you? Then come and have a free consultation at Duinbergen Clinic.