Baltimore Breast Augmentation with Lift
Breast augmentation with a lift combines two transformative goals in one procedure: restoring lost volume and elevating the breasts to a more youthful position. Whether changes in your shape stem from breast development, pregnancy, weight loss, or aging, this surgery helps bring your breasts back into natural balance with the rest of your figure.
Dr. Michele Shermak offers breast augmentation with lift for women seeking natural-looking enhancement guided by expertise and experience. With over 27 years of surgical excellence, she tailors each procedure to the individual, helping patients in Baltimore achieve a more balanced, proportionate, and confident silhouette.
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Breast augmentation, an enhancement procedure, may be strategically combined with a breast lift to achieve rejuvenated, fuller breasts, a tighter, lifted skin envelope, and more optimally positioned nipples.
Breast augmentation with lift may also help treat congenital breast asymmetry. Dr. Shermak uses saline or silicone breast implants, depending on patient choice, in a broad range of sizes and textures.
The lift improves perkiness, and the implant improves the cleavage. Breast augmentation with lift is especially beneficial for women whose breasts have lost both volume and elasticity. This procedure is often part of post-pregnancy or post-weight-loss restoration.
On the day of surgery, you’ll be placed under general anesthesia after Dr. Shermak meets with you to review the procedure and perform surgical markings. Dr. Shermak begins by making carefully planned incisions—typically around the areola and down to the breast crease. Implants or transferred fat are then placed to restore volume.
The breast tissue is lifted and reshaped through an individually tailored approach in which excess skin is removed, the nipple is repositioned, and symmetry is achieved for a more youthful look. This is an outpatient procedure, and you’ll go home the same day with a support bra in place.
This procedure is ideal for women with sagging (ptosis), deflation, or stretched breast skin who want to enhance their breasts’ position and size.
It's often used to address post-pregnancy or post-weight loss changes, congenital asymmetry, or breasts that naturally sit low on the chest. Some of Dr. Shermak’s patients are teenagers who are uncomfortable with breasts that are sagging and/or asymmetrical.
This combined surgery offers a more complete transformation than augmentation or lift alone.
Patients enjoy fuller breasts with better shape, improved nipple placement, and a more youthful profile, all with one surgery and recovery process. This procedure may be performed in a single stage to optimally provide comprehensive breast shape, size, and positional improvement.
A larger implant will not necessarily lift the breasts and a lift may not be enough to improve breast shape and proportions. Good candidates for breast augmentation with lift are women in good mental and physical health who do not smoke or vape, and have breasts that have lost their fullness and shape from pregnancy or significant weight loss, or who have congenital breast ptosis, or sagging.
Many of Dr. Shermak’s patients present after a history of breast implant surgery, who desire improved breast position and a wide range of sizes, from downsizing to upsizing. Procedures are individualized to meet patient goals. Clients should have realistic ideals for their outcome, hoping for improvement that matches their body type. Dr. Shermak will review surgical incisions and postoperative photos of women who have undergone this procedure so her patients are fully informed and expectations are set.
Surgery is performed on an outpatient basis. One may experience temporary discomfort, swelling, or numbness. Most women resume regular activities and return to low-impact exercise after 1-2 weeks.
Heavy lifting is discouraged for at least a month. Dr. Shermak and her team will provide detailed care instructions and a compression bra to support the healing process. Healing is checked at post-operative appointments, and Dr. Shermak remains available to offer extra support throughout the entire recovery phase.
Breast augmentation with lift delivers both aesthetic enhancement and physical renewal, offering a fuller, perkier, and more youthful breast appearance. Patients enjoy a smoother silhouette, better cleavage, and improved balance between the breasts and the rest of the body, all while keeping proportions natural and harmonious.
Beyond visual improvements, many women experience a meaningful boost in confidence and comfort. Clothing fits more attractively, bras offer better support without gaps or spillage, and posture may subtly improve as weight is more evenly distributed. Whether your breasts have changed after pregnancy, weight loss, or simply over time, the results of breast augmentation with lift help restore not just your shape, but your sense of self.
The way you look and feel directly affects your self-confidence. Thanks to her extensive experience as a skilled breast surgeon, Dr. Shermak has treated many patients in Baltimore who underwent breast augmentation with lift, improving both aesthetics and quality of life.
Dr. Shermak has been recognized by her patients and colleagues for providing excellent breast surgical care. In addition to treating patients in Baltimore for breast augmentation with lift, Dr. Shermak also cares for many patients who undergo abdominoplasty, body lift, fat grafting, and facial plastic surgery procedures. Please visit these pages to learn more about the other cosmetic procedures offered.
We invite you to call Dr. Shermak’s Baltimore plastic surgery office at (410) 616-3000 to schedule your personal, comprehensive consultation today.
During the initial consultation, you will discuss with Dr. Shermak what you would like to improve so she can understand your expectations and determine the best way to achieve the desired result. Surgery is customized to your desires and needs. You can also learn more about the procedure by visiting our online before-and-after photography page.
Yes. Dr. Shermak carefully plans the size and shape of the implant to complement your anatomy and meet your goals. Her goal is always balanced, natural-looking enhancement to result in predictable outcomes for her patients..
In some cases, fat transfer may be used as an alternative to implants for augmentation. However, the volume increase is generally more limited and less predictable when fat is used alone.
Yes. This procedure is often part of a comprehensive mommy makeover or as a post-weight-loss surgery treatment. It addresses volume loss, sagging, and nipple position in one procedure.
There will be scars, but they are placed strategically—often around the areola, vertically down to the breast crease, and under the breasts—and tend to fade significantly over time.
Implants can last for many years, often 10–15 or more, and the lift’s effects are long-lasting, especially when combined with stable weight and proper support.
Adding implants to a lift can improve cleavage and elevate the breast footprint beyond what a lift can achieve. While initially a lift may demonstrate improved cleavage fullness this effect will disappear over the course of 6 months to a year and the upper pole of the breast will return to its baseline.
