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“Beverly Hills Surgeon Leslie Howard Stevens performs the procedure and says its slow to catch on because of the steep learning curve for doctors. Bruce Cunningham, chief of plastic surgery at the University of Minnesota, said he doesn’t do it because It adds an unnecessary level of complexity. Houston surgeon Thomas Biggs, president-elect of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, says he prefers another new lift procedure that uses a loop of pectoral muscle as a sort Internal underwire. The technique requires an incision around the areola as well as a small incision toward the outside of the breast- A block of breast tissue is hoisted up, hooked through the loop of muscle and stitched into place.

A study in the Journal of Aesthetic Surgery this month reported that nearly all of 1,521 women who had the procedure were satisfied with the result four years later; When a woman puts on a bra, shes pushing breast tissue upward, says Dr. Biggs, one of four authors of the study. Were doing exactly the same thing.

As with the mesh procedure, not everyone is a good candidate for the muscle technique. Dr. Biggs, who has performed the procedure about 100 times, says he only uses It on women who needless than 600 grams of breast tissue removed, so women with large breasts arent good candidates.
Doctors say neither procedure interferes with breastfeeding or mammograms. The downsides: Theres far less research on either technique than on traditional lifts and few doctors In the U.S. perform the surgeries. The cost is about the same as traditional lifts, which range from $5,000 to $8,000.

Women with mild sagging may be good candidates for other procedures that have less scarring and can be half the cost. Surgeons can lift the breast by excising a crescent shape of skin from just above the areola. Another procedure cuts away a swath of skin around the areola and uses a purse-string suture to pull the skin toward the areola. Manhattan surgeon Paul R. Weiss says that to reduce scarring, he sometimes performs a vertical breast lift, which uses a vertical incision.

Other doctors say many patients are willing to put up with scarring because they just want to, look good in their clothes and eliminate bounce. Even so, they say, women should be realistic, because no procedure can defy nature permanently.”