What is a "breast lift"?

What is a "breast lift"?

Steve Fallek (Plastic Surgeon & Medical Director, Face Focus Medical Spa, New York City) gives expert video advice on: Who can get a breast lift?; Who should not get a breast lift?; Is a breast lift painful? and more...

A breast lift is also called a mastopexy, "pexy" meaning "lift" in Latin. A breast lift is a procedure where patients have sufficient breast volume or breast tissue and just notice that the breast is sagging. What that means is they have excessive skin. A breast lift involves removing the skin and not removing any of the breast volume. This is different than a breast reduction, where both breast skin and breast tissue are removed.