Patient education
Sagging Breasts: Causes and Options
Written for someone deciding about their own body rather than studying the subject. If you read only one guide, read the second, because whether skin or volume is responsible decides what every other guide means for you.
All guides
10 guides
- What Patients Mean by Sagging Breasts: Empty, Heavy or LowUnderstanding
- Skin, Volume or Both: The Question That Decides the AnswerCauses
- How Breast Ptosis Is Graded, and Why the Grade Changes the PlanAssessment
- When Sagging Breasts Are a Medical Problem, Not an Aesthetic OneRed flags
- The Treatment Ladder for Sagging Breasts, From Support to SurgeryTreatment ladder
- What Each Option for Sagging Breasts Does Not AchieveLimits
- After a Lift: What Happens to the Shape Over the Following YearsAftercare
- When Not to Treat Sagging BreastsDeciding
- Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Lift or an ImplantPreparation
- The Honest Ceiling: What a Lift Cannot RestoreLimits
Start by finding out which of the two it is
Arrange an assessment. We will establish whether the skin, the volume or both are responsible, explain what each option can and cannot change, and set out the alternatives, including doing nothing.