Breast Lift
Mastopexy lifts and reshapes sagging breasts by removing excess skin and tightening surrounding tissue.
Breast Lift near you
Charles
Lee, MD
David
Kahng
Peter
Ashjian, MD
Debra
Stafford, MD
Robert
Schlenker, MD
John
Diaz, MD
Lily
Lee, MD
William
Rahal, MD
Jaime
Schwartz, MD
Nima
Naghshineh, MD
Andre
Panossian, MD
Mark
Solomon, MD
Gordon
Sasaki, MD
Kevin
Ruhge, MD
Samuel
Golpanian
Mohammad
Khosravi, MD
Amir
Tahernia, MD
Armen
Vartany, MD
Elise
Min, MD
Jay
Orringer, MD
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Mossi Salibian, MD
Brent
Moelleken, MD
Kelly
Killeen, MD
Saul
Berger, MD
Joel
Aronowitz, MD
Stuart
Linder, MD
Michael
Hakimi, MD
Bruce
Kadz, MD
Tsung-Lin
Tsai, MD
Andre
Marshall, MD
Marc
Mani, MD
Gabrielle
Davis, MD
Obaid
Chaudhry, MD
Joseph
Minniti, MD,
John
Layke, DO
Faryan
Jalalabadi
Stewart
Wang, MD
David
Kim, MD
Daniel
Barrett, MD
Joshua
Jacobson, MD
Gary
Motykie, MD
Breast Lift: making the decision
What the price actually covers
Honest risks
- Scarring that fades over 12+ months
- Temporary sensation changes
- Some settling of the result over the first year is normal
Are you a good candidate?
- Sagging or deflation after pregnancy or weight change
- Done having children ideally (pregnancy can undo it)
- Non-smoker — smoking seriously impairs healing here
Six questions for every consult
- Are you board-certified, and in what specialty? (Verify it — don't just ask.)
- How many of this exact procedure did you do in the last 12 months?
- Can I see before/afters of patients with my anatomy or skin type?
- Who handles complications, and what's your revision policy and fee?
- Where is the procedure done, and is the facility accredited?
- What results would you consider realistic for me — and what won't this fix?
Verify before you book
A mastopexy raises the breasts by removing excess skin and tightening the surrounding tissue; it can also reduce an enlarged areola. What it does not do, in the ASPS's own words, is significantly change the size of your breasts or round out the upper part. If the goal is fullness as well as position, the operation that fits is a lift combined with augmentation; if the goal is smaller and lifted, a lift with reduction. Knowing which of those three you actually want before the consultation makes the conversation — and the quotes — comparable.
Source: American Society of Plastic Surgeons — Breast Lift ↗Single-stage augmentation-mastopexy asks one operation to do two opposing things: increase volume while shrinking the skin envelope. A systematic review pooling 23 studies and 4,856 cases put the total complication rate at 13.1% and reoperation at 10.7% — the most common issue being recurrence of the sagging itself (5.2%), ahead of poor scarring and capsular contracture. The authors' conclusion was that with careful patient selection the rates are acceptably low. The honest framing for a patient: one-stage surgery is legitimate and common, and it carries a real chance of a second trip to the operating room — ask your surgeon their own revision rate and policy.
Source: Khavanin et al., Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2014 ↗The post-pregnancy body keeps changing for up to a year, and after breastfeeding ends it can take four to six months for breasts to settle into their final size and shape. ASPS surgeons advise postponing a lift, augmentation, or reduction until you're confident the change has stopped — operating on a moving target risks a result that no longer fits within months. If more children are planned, the same logic applies in the other direction: a later pregnancy can undo the lift.
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Breast Lift: common questions
How much does a breast lift cost?
ASPS puts the average surgeon's fee for a mastopexy at $6,816, before anesthesia and facility charges; all-in it's typically $7,000–$12,000. Adding implants at the same time — an augmentation-mastopexy — increases both the surgeon's fee and the implant cost, but is far cheaper than having the two operations separately. The main cost variable beyond that is the degree of lift needed, because it determines the incision pattern and the operating time.
What's the difference between a breast lift and an augmentation?
They solve different problems and people often arrive asking for the wrong one. A lift removes skin and raises the nipple to reposition the breast on the chest wall — it changes position and shape, not size, and can slightly reduce apparent volume. An augmentation adds volume with an implant but does little for position; putting an implant into a breast that needs lifting usually produces a larger version of the same droop. If you want to be both higher and fuller, that's both operations, and doing them together is one recovery and one facility fee.