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Inverted "T" Breast Lift and Breast Augmentation

Inverted "T" Breast Lift and Augmentation Indications

The inverted "T" breast lift and breast augmentation is for women with moderate to severe breast ptosis. The inverted "T" mastopexy is widely used for combined mastopexy and augmentation procedures. With this design, the scar is the shape of an up-side-down "T", with scars in the middle and across the base of the breast. Like nearly all methods of breast lifting, this procedure also results in a scar around the areola. This technique is also called a Wise pattern mastopexy and an Anchor pattern mastopexy.

Inverted "T" Breast Lift and Augmentation Technique

For women with excess skin at the lower part of the breast, this is often the most powerful mastopexy and augmentation technique, as much of the lower and central breast skin is removed. After the excess skin is excised, the breast implant is placed through a deeper incision at the base of the breast. In addition to skin removal and tightening, the deep layer of breast tissue is often sutured together to shape the breast, as well. Finally, the areola is slid into a higher position and the skin is closed around the areola, down the center of the breast and across the breast fold. The final scar is like an anchor or inverted "T", with a scar around the areola, straight down the center of the breast to the breast fold and across the base of the breast. The length of the scar in the breast fold varies according to the degree of skin excess at the lower aspect of the breast.

Inverted "T" Breast Lift and Augmentation Recovery

This technique typically does not cause puckering of the skin around the areola (as does the areolar lift), but it does leave the breast implants very high on the chest, and the bases of the breasts tight and flat. Within a few weeks from surgery, the skin expands, the implants drop and the breasts begin to assume a nice appearance.

Inverted-T breast lift & augmentation design

With an inverted "T" breast lift and augmentation, the skin is removed around the areola and in the middle and lower portions of the breast. The breast implant is inserted under the pectoralis major muscle, through the incision at the base of the breast.

Inverted-T breast lift with breast implants

Immediately after the inverted "T" breast lift and augmentation, the implants are high on the chest and the bases of the breasts are tight and flat.

Inverted-T breast lift & augmentation results

Several weeks after an inverted-T breast lift and augmentation, the skin has stretched and softened and the implants have settled to the bases of the breasts. The scars are around the areolas, down center of the breasts and across the bases of the breasts forming an inverted "T" or "anchor" shape.