Breast lift, also known as mastopexy, is a procedure to reshape the breasts in order to restore a more youthful breast appearance. Breast drooping, or ptosis, is a condition that is hereditary in some women, but more commonly results from changes that occur after pregnancies, weight loss, or aging. In women with ptosis, the breast skin envelope is typically stretched larger than it needs to be and the nipple is positioned on the lower half of the breast contour. Patients who have substantial breast tissue volume and ptosis may benefit from mastopexy alone. Other patients with ptosis and smaller breast volumes often benefit from the addition of breast implants to the mastopexy procedure in order to achieve upper pole breast fullness. Breast implants may either be positioned under the chest wall muscle (subpectoral) or over the chest wall muscle (subglandular). There are several variations of the mastopexy procedure. The circumareolar mastopexy is the most common breast lift performed by Dr. Chatson and it results in a scar that is limited to the outer margins of the areola. Other techniques require a circumareolar incision as well as a vertical incision beneath the areola. Patients with an even larger degree of breast ptosis and tissue laxity require the traditional mastopexy procedure which involves incisions around the areola, below the areola, and across the inframammary fold beneath the breasts.

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