TABA breast augmentation procedure offers select patient group scarless breast enhancement.

AUGMENTATION mammaplasty; MAMMAPLASTY; BREAST; PATIENTS; SURGERY; SURVEYS

The article reports that a limited population of abdominoplasty patients who also desire breast augmentation can have the procedures performed together without scars on or around the breast. The combined procedure, transabdominoplasty breast augmentation (TABA), prevents the need to make an incision on or near the breast because the breast augmentation is approached through the abdominoplasty incision. Most patients with second-or third degree breast ptosis would probably benefit more from a combination of augmentation and mastopexy than from TABA. Rates of 50 percent or greater improvement ranged from 80 percent to 95 percent in all groups at weeks two and four, but by week eight, only 55 percent of women treated with the lowest dose still exhibited that degree of response.