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Bringing Shape and Fullness Back Together
Breast augmentation with lift is designed to create a complete, cohesive change in the shape of your breasts.
By combining two complementary procedures, Dr. Joseph T. Cruise can refine how your breasts sit on your chest while creating the fullness and proportion you want.
For women considering breast augmentation with lift in Orange County, Dr. Cruise can evaluate what your anatomy will allow and develop a surgical plan that feels distinctly your own.
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Also called augmentation mastopexy, this procedure combines breast lift surgery with breast implants. The lift removes excess skin, reshapes the natural breast tissue, and raises the nipple-areola complex. The implant adds volume, projection, and upper-pole fullness.
Each part has a separate purpose. A lift improves position and shape without reliably replacing lost volume. Breast augmentation fills the breast but cannot properly raise tissue that has settled below the breast crease. Together, they give Dr. Cruise greater control over the full breast contour.
A breast lift with augmentation can improve sagging, lost breast volume, stretched skin, downward-pointing nipples, enlarged areolas, and asymmetrical breasts.
It can also rebuild fullness through the upper breast and create a rounder breast mound that feels better balanced with your frame.
Combining the procedures allows Dr. Cruise to consider position, volume, symmetry, and proportion as one design. Benefits may include:
You may be a good candidate if you want to increase breast volume and correct sagging during the same surgery. Candidates should be healthy, at a stable weight, finished breastfeeding, and comfortable with the incisions required for a breast lift.
A lift alone may be enough when your natural breast tissue provides the volume you want. Breast augmentation surgery may be sufficient when the nipple remains in a youthful position.
When It Makes Sense to Wait
We may recommend waiting if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, actively losing weight, or planning another pregnancy soon. An unresolved breast symptom, abnormal mammogram, or active breast cancer evaluation also needs to be addressed before elective breast surgery.
During your breast augmentation consultation, Dr. Cruise evaluates your breast tissue, skin elasticity, breast crease, degree of breast ptosis, nipple position, and chest wall. You will discuss breast implant size, profile, and saline or cohesive silicone gel options.
The lift incision may circle the areola, extend vertically to the breast crease, or continue along the crease. Dr. Cruise reshapes the breast tissue, raises the nipple-areola complex, and places the selected implant, so both parts of the procedure create one balanced shape.
Breast Augmentation With Lift Results
Your breasts will look fuller and sit higher immediately after surgery. Early swelling and tightness make them appear firmer than the final result.
As the implants settle and your tissues soften, the breast shape becomes more natural.
Your results can last for many years, although pregnancy, aging, and weight fluctuations can change the breasts again.
Expect to spend the first several days resting. Soreness, swelling, bruising, and tightness are normal, and prescription pain medication can keep you comfortable.
You will wear a surgical bra to support your breasts and protect the incisions.
Most patients return to desk work in about one week. Heavy lifting and upper-body exercise remain restricted until Dr. Cruise confirms that you are ready.
Cost depends on your lift technique, breast implant choice, anesthesia, facility fees, and surgical plan. Cruise Plastic Surgery provides an individualized quote after your consultation. Financing is available for qualified patients.
Combining breast lift and augmentation requires careful balance between skin removal, nipple position, natural tissue, and implant volume. Dr. Cruise considers how these elements will work together as the breasts heal and settle.
As a board-certified plastic surgeon with more than 20 years of cosmetic surgery experience, he brings technical precision and an artistic understanding of proportion to every procedure. He will be direct about the incisions you need, the implant that fits your tissue, and the result you can realistically expect.
Yes. If you like your current volume and mainly want your breasts raised, a lift may be enough.
An implant may fill mild laxity, but it cannot reposition a nipple below the breast crease. A lift is needed when the breast tissue must be raised.
Fat grafting may provide a modest increase in volume. Breast implants create a more predictable change in size, projection, and upper fullness.
Yes. Many patients include both procedures in a mommy makeover. Dr. Cruise will determine if combining them is appropriate for your health and surgical plan.
Contact Cruise Plastic Surgery in Newport Beach to meet with Dr. Cruise and receive a recommendation shaped around your body, preferences, and desired result.
