Can I Get a Breast Lift With Implants?

In 2010, I was interviewed for an article in New You magazine about the I.D.E.A.L Breast Lift technique that I created. Through the years, I’ve continued to use this approach for breast lift surgery – with and without breast implants – and I’m really proud of it. I wanted to share an excerpt of the article by Rochelle Nataloni in my latest blog.

Perk Up: Pregnancy, weight loss and aging can get the ‘girls’ down, but breast lift surgery can restore their joie de vivre

For 26-year-old Rachael L. (not her real name), breast lift surgery came to the rescue following a weight loss that left her with breasts that didn’t suit her otherwise fit and youthful body. “I had lost some weight that I had put on in college, and I wanted to be perkier again,” explains Rachael, who considered a breast lift (or mastopexy) for a little over a year before deciding to move forward with the procedure.

Rachael opted to have the surgery performed by Dr. Ted Eisenberg, a board certified plastic surgeon whose name is synonymous with cosmetic breast surgery in Philadelphia and the surrounding Delaware Valley.

Dr. Eisenberg’s practice is dedicated entirely to cosmetic breast surgery; he’s performed over 7,000 breast surgeries including lifts, augmentations, and a combination of the two. Because he focuses exclusively on breasts, he’s developed improvements to the conventional breast lift technique.

What to Expect First Week After a Breast Lift

“From small beginnings come great things.” – author unknown From resting and eating to lifting and love-making, here’s what you can expect – and do – from the first day after your breast augmentation or breast lift surgery to your first post-op visit one week later. Top tip: Listen to your body. RECOVERING How will you feel after getting breast implants? Women most often describe the feeling as discomfort, not pain. Those who have had children say they feel like they did when their breasts were fully engorged with milk after childbirth. Women who haven’t had kids describe the...

How to Choose Your Breast Implant Size

Through the years, I’ve answered hundreds of questions from women who come into my office for a breast augmentation consultation.  I’ve also answered more than 3,000 questions about breast implants posed by women on RealSelf, an online cosmetic surgery forum.

Although women say it in different ways, their most burning question before surgery is this: How do I know what size breast implants to get?

What to Expect After Breast Implant Surgery

When I call my breast augmentation patients the day after surgery or examine them at their first post-op visit, they want to know one thing: Is this normal?

They phrase that question in many different ways:

Is it normal for my implants to be so high?
Will my implants soften up and squish together?
Is it okay that one of my breasts is up higher than the other?
Is it too soon to be judging my final shape and size?
Did you give me the implant size I asked for? 

My answer to all of the above: Yes!

Saline vs Silicone Breast Implants

There’s an opinion asserted by breast implant manufacturers and by many plastic surgeons that silicone gel breast implants are better than saline breast implants. In my opinion, “It ain’t necessarily so.” I’ve performed more than 7,000 breast augmentation surgeries, many of them with saline implants. My patients who chose saline have reported a high degree of satisfaction; it’s been rare for a woman to request that I change her saline implants to silicone. Silicone gel implants may be stealing the spotlight, but saline breast implants still have much to offer. Here are seven...