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title: "Breast Lift"
url: https://drturner.com.au/procedures/breast-body/breast-lift/
date: 2025-04-30
modified: 2026-06-27
author: "Dr Scott J Turner"
description: "A breast lift, known clinically as mastopexy, is a procedure that repositions and reshapes the breast tissue when it has begun to sag or sit lower than you'd like on..."
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# Breast Lift

A breast lift, known clinically as mastopexy, is a procedure that repositions and reshapes the breast tissue when it has begun to sag or sit lower than you'd like on the chest wall. The reasons women come in to discuss a lift vary considerably. Some have completed pregnancies and breastfeeding and find that the breasts no longer sit where they once did. Some have lost a substantial amount of weight and the skin envelope hasn't recovered. Some have always had a long-bodied breast shape that doesn't quite match their proportions. And some are simply navigating the changes that come with time.

Dr Scott J Turner is a Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) with over a decade in private practice. He has performed more than 1,000 breast procedures and consults from his Sydney clinics in Bondi Junction and Manly. The pages that follow walk through what mastopexy involves, how Dr Turner thinks about the decision between lift alone and lift with implants, what the recovery actually looks like, and an honest discussion of the scar trade-off that every breast lift patient should understand before deciding whether surgery is right for them.