Patient education
Breast lift vs augmentation: the guides
Eight guides to the comparison between a breast lift and a breast augmentation, from telling position from volume to the cases in which neither operation is the answer. Written for someone deciding, not someone studying.
All guides
8 guides
- Breast Lift or Augmentation? Reading Your Own ShapeDeciding
- What a Breast Lift Changes, and What It CannotLift
- What Breast Augmentation Changes, and What It CannotAugmentation
- Implant Lifetime: Why an Implant Is Not a Lifetime DeviceRevision
- Recovery After Breast Surgery: Work, Exercise and TimeRecovery
- Sensation and Breastfeeding: What Cannot Be PromisedLimits
- What Drives the Cost of Breast Lift and AugmentationCost
- When Neither a Lift Nor an Implant Is the Right AnswerNeither
Lift, augmentation, or neither?
An assessment begins by naming the finding rather than the operation: position, volume, or both. We will say plainly what each operation would change in your case, what it would leave exactly as it is, and what we would advise if neither were the right answer for you.