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Breast lift with implants scars is avoided by optimizing incision line, gauging implant size and placement, and meticulous incision line suture repair. implants scars may develop in incision lines that are mandatory around the areola and a vertical incision that extends down the areola.
Fixing Breast Lift with Implants Scars
The variable incision line lies in the inframammary crease and its length is determined by how much breast tissue sagging is there. For example, if there is more sagging laterally than medially, then the incision length is longer along the lateral than the medial aspect of the breast. When there is minimal medial breast sagging, then no incision line extension will be visible along the medial breast. In the latter scenario, the incision will appear like a “J” rather than an anchor incision.
Regardless, all incisions are repaired using a comprehensive technique that utilizes three layers of closure including the mammary fascia as well as two layers of the skin. In addition, internal PDS sutures are used that are absorbable but only after three months. Three months of suture retention is critical as the incision line achieves 80% of its strength after three months. Cheaper sutures will only last six weeks at which time the suture line only has 40% of its healing completed. Finally, gauging implant size and placement is critical to avoid unnecessary tension on the incision line. Breast lift with implants scars is probably affected most by undue tension on the incision line.
Postoperative breast incision lines are managed to avoid breast lift with implants scars. This includes retaining specialized surgical tapes called Steri-Strips, that have several functions. First, they provide a barrier to touching of the incisions with your fingers. Your skin has protective bacteria that grow there routinely, called colonization.
If these bacteria get into your incision they can cause a localized infection. The second function of the Steri-Strips is to provide support for your incisions by acting like external sutures. However, the Steri-Strips are superior to stitches because they avoid breast lift with implants scars typically seen as hash marks.
