Mastopexy

Mastopexy (Greek μαστός mastos “breast” + -pēxiā “affix”) is the mammoplasty procedure for correcting the size, contour, and elevation of sagging breasts upon the chest. In a breast-lift surgery to re-establish an aesthetically proportionate bust for the woman, the critical corrective consideration is the tissue viability of the nipple-areola complex, to ensure the functional sensitivity of the breasts for lactation and breast-feeding. The breast-lift correction of a sagging bust is a plastic surgery operation that cuts excess tissues (glandular, adipose, skin), overstretched suspensory ligaments, and excess skin from the skin-envelope, and transposes the nipple-areola complex higher upon the breast hemisphere.

In surgical practice, mastopexy can be performed as a discrete breast-lift procedure and as a subordinate surgery within a combined mastopexy–breast augmentation procedure; moreover, mastopexy surgery techniques also are applied to reduction mammoplasty, the correction of oversized breasts. Psychologically, mastopexy to correct breast ptosis is not indicated by medical reason, but by the self-image of the woman; that is, the combination of physical, aesthetic, and mental health requirements of her Self.

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