Breasts

Cosmetic breast surgery is a popular plastic surgery procedure for women who desire larger breasts, lifted breasts or smaller breasts.

Breast implant surgery, or augmentation mammoplasty, is performed by a cosmetic surgeon to enhance a women's body contour. Mammoplasty can be used to improve sagging post-pregnancy breasts, to make uneven breasts symmetrical or as reconstructive surgery after a former botched mammoplasty procedure. The out-patient breast implant procedure performed under general anesthesia typically lasts two hours. If a women wishes to merely boost up sagging breasts, she may choose to undergo breast lift surgery (mastopexy).

Women who feel as though their large breasts are unsightly or a physical burden their person, they may seek breast reduction surgery. Reduction of excess breast tissue not only improves a woman's motor capabilities and posture but allows her physician to better assess early signs of cancer such as lumps. During breast reduction surgery (reduction mammoplasty), a cosmetic surgeon re-contours and decreases the size of breasts.

Read on to learn more about breast augmentation, breast reduction and breast lift surgery, including breast implant recovery time, breast reduction recovery time and risks of mammoplasty surgery.