Breast Lift
A custom breast lift reshapes and lifts sagging breasts, restoring youthful position, firmness, and natural symmetry without altering your authentic self.
A custom breast lift reshapes and lifts sagging breasts, restoring youthful position, firmness, and natural symmetry without altering your authentic self.
For women looking to counter the effects of pregnancy, nursing, weight shifts, or aging, a breast lift (mastopexy) in Austin, TX, offers a way to raise sagging breasts, tighten stretched skin, and restore youthful firmness. Dr. Tosan Ehanire, a board-certified plastic surgeon at Align Plastic Surgery, approaches breast lift surgery through a partner-led, holistic lens. Drawing inspiration from her familial roots tied to Nigeria's iconic Igun Eronmwon bronze-casting guild, and backed by elite training at top universities like Johns Hopkins, Dr. Ehanire treats every procedure at Align Plastic Surgery as a fine art. By blending custom surgical planning with evidence-based scar care protocols, she subtly enhances and elevates your breast profile in Austin, TX.
A breast lift, or mastopexy, is a cosmetic surgery procedure designed to reshape the breast, eliminate redundant skin, and elevate the position of the nipple and areola.
Over time, gravity, childbearing, nursing, and significant weight loss cause skin elasticity to diminish. As a result, a woman's breasts lose their youthful firmness, the nipples fall below the inframammary fold (the breast crease), and the entire areola may stretch, resulting in enlarged areolas.
During your Austin breast lift consultation, Dr. Ehanire evaluates your medical history, breast tissue volume, and skin quality to recommend the ideal surgical technique to fit your goals.
Specialized Breast Lift Techniques
Periareolar (Donut) Lift: Ideal for minor sagging or simple areola reduction. A circular incision is made strictly around the perimeter of the entire areola to lift mild tissue laxity.
Vertical (Lollipop) Lift: Designed for moderate breast changes and tissue sagging. A vertical lift involves an incision around the areola and straight down to the breast crease, allowing Dr. Ehanire to reshape the underlying breast tissue matrix and excise extra skin.
Full (Anchor) Lift: Surgeons prefer an anchor lift (inverted-T incision) for significant skin redundancy or larger breasts. Incisions run around the areola, down the vertical center, and horizontally along the inframammary fold, allowing for maximum skin removal and dramatic reshaping.
Breast Lift with Augmentation or Reduction: While a mastopexy changes position and shape, it does not significantly change the size of your breasts. If you desire greater fullness, a breast lift can be paired with breast implants or natural fat transfer. If you wish to address physical back pain caused by heavy breasts, combining a lift with a breast reduction reduces weight while restoring an elevated profile.
On surgery day, your procedure is typically performed as an outpatient procedure under general anesthesia in an accredited surgical facility. Dr. Ehanire begins by meticulously marking surgical lines while you are comfortably standing, mapping out the precise new nipple position and natural breast contour.
Once anesthesia is administered, the surgeon makes the pre-planned incisions to access the underlying tissue. Rather than merely pulling the breast skin tight, Dr. Ehanire resculpts and lifts the internal parenchymal tissue, shifting the nipple and areola upward while maintaining their vital blood supply and nerve connections. Excess skin is removed, and the remaining skin is drawn taut around the newly formed, elevated breast mound. Incisions are closed in multi-layer, tension-free sutures, and a soft surgical bra is applied. The entire surgical procedure lasts between 2 and 3 hours, and most patients rest in recovery before returning home the same day.
With a breast lift Austin patients can correct a variety of age-related, post-pregnancy, and structural changes affecting the bust line:
Elevates breast tissue that has descended below the lower breast crease.
Repositions nipples and areolas so they face forward rather than pointing downward.
Resizes and reshapes an enlarged areola to fit naturally with the new breast volume.
Eliminates loose, stretched skin resulting from nursing, weight gain, or losing weight.
Corrects noticeable differences in height, position, or skin elasticity between left and right breasts.
A breast lift directly targets the primary breast mound, the nipple-areola complex, the lower breast skin envelope, the inframammary fold, and the surrounding tissue along the upper chest wall.
Our Austin breast lift offers profound aesthetic and emotional benefits, restoring natural youthful breast contour and balance.
Elevating the breast mound recreates a firmer appearance and fuller upper-pole projection, allowing clothing, swimwear, and unpadded garments to fit beautifully.
By keeping the nipple and areola attached to their underlying central vascular stalk during relocation, Dr. Ehanire preserves natural blood supply and normal nipple sensation for most patients.
While a breast lift requires visible incisions, Dr. Ehanire utilizes multi-layer closure techniques and strategic placement. Supported by her evidence-based scar protocols, incision sites are actively managed before and after surgery to heal as thin, flat, and discreetly as possible across all skin complexions.
Ideal candidates for a breast lift are healthy women seeking to correct drooping breasts, low nipple placement, or loose skin.
Good Candidates Include:
Who May Not Be an Ideal Candidate:
Preparing for recovery following a breast lift ensures a comfortable healing process as your new breast contour settles into place.
While initial improvements in position and shape are visible immediately after surgery, your final breast lift results unfold over 2 to 3 months as swelling resolves and tissue adapts smoothly to its new foundation. The result is a firmer, lifted appearance that moves naturally with your body.
Because redundant skin is permanently excised, the results of a breast lift are enduring. While your breasts change naturally with aging and gravity over time, your restored baseline will permanently keep your breasts higher and firmer than if you had never undergone the procedure.
A breast lift requires a skilled plastic surgeon who combines deep reconstructive knowledge with a refined artistic eye for natural human geometry. At Align Plastic Surgery, board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Tosan Ehanire approaches every mastopexy with clinical rigor and human empathy. Grounded in her ancestral heritage as part of the historic Igun Eronmwon bronze-casting guild of Benin, Nigeria, and refined through elite surgical training at Duke, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Florida, Dr. Ehanire respects natural form.
She listens attentively to your goals during your initial consultation, evaluates your options with care, and prioritizes your health and natural-looking results throughout the process.
A breast lift primarily changes position, shape, and firmness rather than volume. While removing extra skin can make breasts appear slightly smaller and pert, combining a lift with breast implants increases size, while combining it with a breast reduction creates smaller breasts.
Yes, any procedure that removes excess skin requires incisions. Depending on whether you undergo a donut, vertical, or anchor lift, scars will reside around the areola, vertically down the breast, and along the breast crease. Dr. Ehanire uses evidence-based scar protocols to help incisions heal as thin, flat, and discreetly as possible.
Because Dr. Ehanire keeps the nipple and areola attached to underlying glandular tissue and blood supply, many women are still able to breastfeed after surgery. However, any breast surgery carries a small risk of impacting milk production.
A breast lift repositions sagging tissue and removes stretched skin to address drooping. Breast implants add volume and projection using silicone or saline devices. Patients experiencing both deflation and sagging frequently combine both procedures.
Breast lift cost varies depending on surgical complexity, the technique used (vertical vs. anchor), and whether it is combined with implants or fat transfer. Our practice provides a clear, itemized quote during your private consultation.
Dr. Ehanire recommends waiting at least 3 to 6 months after completely stopping breastfeeding before undergoing a breast lift. This allows your hormones to normalize and your breast tissue volume to stabilize.
