Breast lift

When you choose our clinic for your breast lift, you choose innovation and tried and tested advice. We work together with experienced Dutch surgeons, but also make use of international innovations and techniques. You will be supervised by certified and experienced experts and surgeons who have been trained abroad and are happy to offer their knowledge and skills in the Netherlands. As a result, Essential Aesthetics can help you get those nicer breasts, with the same techniques offered abroad, with expertise, knowledge and Dutch safety, but without the risks and long journeys.

What is GalaFLEX ®?

GalaFLEX® is a temporary, absorbable scaffold used to strengthen, stabilize and support weakened soft tissue. It was designed to provide support immediately after breast surgery, which allows your body to heal and create a healthy new tissue plane of primarily mature collagen.

GalaFLEX® scaffolds are made from a biologically derived polymer known as poly-4-hydroxybutyrate (P4HB™), which breaks downover time into CO2 and H2O, a process similar to absorbable stitches. This means that your body knows how to metabolize and completely absorb the scaffold safely and naturally.

GalaFLEX® scaffolds are offered in a variety of shapes for use in breast surgery procedures. Each GalaFLEX® scaffold is selected by your surgeon specific to your body’s shape and needs.

How does GalaFlex work?
During surgery, your surgeon will place the GalaFLEX® scaffold internal bra under your tissue.
The unique knit pattern of the scaffold encourages rapid cellular infiltration and the formation of new collagen which is a key component of healthy skin tissue. This newly formed tissue is pliable yet provides strength, support and stability to the elevated tissue.
After 18-24 months, the scaffold is essentially completely absorbed and eliminated from the body as water and carbon dioxide through natural physiologic pathways. No polymer metabolites remain after the degradation process is complete. The collagen tissue that remains is 3-4 times the original tissue strength.

BE GalaSTRONG
The GalaFLEX® Family of Scaffolds are used in patients who need additional support because of weakened or deficient soft tissue, in breast surgery procedures. The GalaFLEX® Family of Scaffolds are used in breast procedures such as reduction mammoplasty, augmentation and revision surgeries.
Patients seeking to strengthen and stabilize weakened tissue during breast surgery may be a candidate for GalaFLEX® scaffold.

GalaFLEX® Scaffold Integration

1 Month – Healthy cells grow into the scaffold.
7 Months – Mature collagen is prevalent and provides reinforcement to the elevated tissue.
1 Year – A new healthy tissue plane 3-4 times stronger than the original tissue remains as the scaffold absorbs.
1,5-2Years – The scaffold absorption process is essentially complete.

Actual results may vary

The Issue With Tissue
As we age so does our skin. After the age of 20, our skin loses about 1% of its collagen each year. This gradual loss of collagen is what causes skin to become thinner and less elastic, resulting in natural sagging and wrinkles.

There are many factors that can accelerate this effect, including:

Gravity Smoking
Weight loss Sun & UV exposure
Menopause (Causing an annual decrease of over 1% of skin thickness and 2% of collagen)
Pregnancy
Diet
Previous surgery (Scars only heal to 80% of their initial strength)

In most breast surgery procedures, compromised and/or weakened soft tissue is tightened. Unfortunately, the tissue itself will not be stronger and gravity may once again cause tissue to droop or sag. This is why many surgeons choose to use a soft tissue support scaffold like GalaFLEX®. Not only does it provide internal breast support to newly lifted and tightened tissue immediately after surgery, but it also allows soft tissue to heal stronger.

Why Soft Tissue Support Matters
Clinical studies show that within 10 years following surgery, between 32% – 48% of patients undergo a second surgery to revise their initial surgical results. The most frequent reason for revisionary surgery among aesthetic implant patients was the development of ptosis (42%) or sagging of the tissue.

How Do I Know If GalaFLEX® Is Right For Me?
Patients seeking to strengthen and stabilize weakened tissue during breast surgery may be a candidate for GalaFLEX® scaffold. Please consult your surgeon to discuss if GalaFLEX® scaffold may be right for you.

Here are some questions you may want to discuss with your surgeon:

• How would you describe the quality of my breast tissue?
• Do I have risk factors for weakened breast tissue?
• Will my tissue alone provide enough strength and support?
• Does my tissue need additional soft tissue support?
• Do I need a GalaFLEX® Internal Bra™?

GalaFLEX® scaffold is designed to lift, reinforce and repair soft tissue where weakness exists in breast surgery. GalaFLEX® scaffold internal bra provides soft tissue support for cosmetic breast procedures.

Clinically proven

• Comprehensive portfolio of biocompatibility testing reviewed by FDA and Notified Body during regulatory approval process for P4HB products.
• Produced by a safe biological fermentation process, standard in pharmaceutical production. Not of animal origin, Not synthetic.
• P4HB devices implanted in more than 3 million patients worldwide.
• P4HB extensively researched with more than 60 clinical and scientific publications.
• GalaFLEX® does not interfere with diagnostic mammograms or ultrasound techniques.

Intended Use

• The GalaFLEX® Family of Scaffolds is intended for use, as an adjunct to sutures, for the reinforcement and repair of soft tissue where weakness exists and where the addition of a reinforcing material is needed to obtain the desired surgical result in patients undergoing breast surgery.
• The GalaFLEX® Family of Scaffolds is designed to be used in patients undergoing soft tissue repair and reinforcement in medically necessary breast surgery procedures where the existing soft tissue is deficient to support the surgical repair.
  Examples of such breast surgery applications include reduction mammoplasty and breast revision surgery to correct a medical condition.
• The GalaFLEX® Family of Scaffolds may also be used in cosmetic breast procedures.

We advise you to remain realistic and not expect perfection. Your surgeon should take a number of factors into account when assessing your mastopexy or breast reduction, such as:

• Your existing breasts;
• The position of your nipples;
• Your age;
• Skin texture;
• Your own anatomy;
• Healing properties and your general health.

These will influence the outcome of your breast surgery.
Breast lift is a reliable and safe procedure. The result is immediately visible after the procedure. But keep in mind that your breasts will be wrapped in compressive bandages after the surgery, so you won’t be able to see your new breasts immediately. Your breasts will also be swollen at first. The end result is visible around 6 months later. The scars will have discolored after a year and will barely be noticeable anymore.

Like all surgeries, breast lifts involve risks and there is a risk of complications. The risks and complications include:

• Unsightly scarring
• Bleeding (haematoma)
• Infection
• Poor wound healing
• Changes in (the sensation of) the nipple, temporarily or permanently

The first step to more beautiful breasts is a consultation with our plastic surgeon. This involves no obligation. You don’t have to decide right away, but you can. The surgeon will listen to your wishes and expectations and then look at the possibilities with you. Each body is different which is why it is important in order for the surgeon to give you the best advice, to see your upper body. Keep this in mind and wear comfortable clothing to your consultation. If you have photos or pictures of the breasts you want, take them with you and show them to the surgeon. Based on your wishes and the photos, the surgeon can also assess whether your expectations are realistic. The surgeon will guide you in choosing the best procedure for you.

The surgeon will ask you about your health, but also about your medical history. Share as much as you can, the details can be important for your own safety and for achieving the best results. The surgeon will tell you honestly whether he or she thinks it is wise to perform the desired procedure and will go through it with you. After this conversation and possible examinations, the surgeon may decide that it is not in your best interest to have the surgery. The surgeon will then look at other possibilities with you. Take this opportunity to ask about other treatments or wishes you have. Our surgeons can give you important information about all our treatments.

Feel free to do some follow-up and research of your own on the internet.

Once you have decided which treatments you want, a care team member will give you a price quotation based on the doctor’s advice. It is often possible to make an appointment for the procedure immediately after the consultation. If you decide to take the next step on your journey to a more beautiful you, you will receive all important information in a patient information document.

Should you still have questions after the consultation, the care team will be happy to help you. You can ask your questions via e-mail, telephone or WhatsApp.

We are delighted to guide you on your journey to lifted, prettier or balanced breasts.

• Breast lift/ Mastopexie from € 4.900
• Postoperative scar treatment 125 euro per zone

Use the free (and obligation-free) consultation, to ask any questions you may have. The doctor will examine, together with you, the possibilities that best suit your body. Should you want another appointment after this one or need more information, we would be delighted to oblige. This is your body we are talking about, you deserve the best so make that appointment. Essential Aesthetics is proud to have already helped so many patients on their journey to a more beautiful body and is honored with a satisfaction score of no less than 96%. [Read the reviews here]

Now it is your turn! Book a free personal consultation with one of our care team specialists via 070 220 2222. Because you are essential to us.

The second consultation with your chosen surgeon costs € 50 and is then deducted from the cost of the surgery. Even if you do not go forward and book a treatment with us after the second consultation, you will still have received, for € 50, an extensive and medically sound consultation which will provide you with a lot of information, and a valuable basis for any subsequent steps.