Staged operation to breast suspension combined with implants for the treatment of breast ptosis
Objective To investigate the effect of staged breast suspension combined with prosthesis implantation in the clinical treatment of breast ptosis.Methods A retrospective analysis of 24 candidates with mild or moderate breast ptosis who underwent surgical correction in the author's hospital from November 2020 to December 2023 was performed,and they were divided into the simultaneous surgery group(n=14)and the staged surgery group(n=10)according to the surgical plan at that time.The simultaneous surgery group un-derwent breast implantation combined with breast suspension and Bi-loop mastopexy at the same time,while the staged surgery group underwent breast implantation in one stage and breast suspension combined with Bi-loop mastopexy in the second stage.The preop-erative and postoperative breast morphology indexes,complication rates,and patient satisfaction were compared between the two groups.Results In the staged surgery group and the concurrent surgery group,the differences in the preoperative and postoperative tho-racic breast spacing,nipple to the lowest point of the inferior crural wall spacing,and nipple to median distance were statistically significant(P<0.05).The incidence of postoperative complications was lower in the staged surgery group than in the concurrent surgery group(P<0.05).Satisfaction scores in the staged surgery group were higher than those in the concurrent surgery group and were statistically different(P<0.05).Conclusion The use of staged method of the breast suspension combined with implantation of prosthesis to correct breast pto-sis has obvious improvement of breast ptosis,good breast shape,and low complication rate and high satisfaction of candidates,which is a very good clinical therapeutic effect.
Breast ptosisBreast suspensionProsthesis implantationBi-loop mastopexy