“Where do they cut for a breast lift?”

Depending on skin excess and level of ptosis, may have a vertical incision or a vertical and inframammary line incision.

There are multiple options for incision for a breast lift. After evaluation, your surgeon can recommend treatment options best suited to you, and yes, sometimes no treatment or surgery is needed.
Best wishes.

The breast lift scar looks like an anchor. The scar will end up being a fine white line after 3-6 months of healing

There are many surgical approaches to performing a breast lift, also known as a mastopexy. However, most approaches at least involve an incision, or cut, around the areola, called a periareolar incision. A popular mastopexy, called a vertical mastopexy, includes both a periareolar incision as well as a vertical incision extending down from that toward the inframammary fold. This combination of cuts is also called a lollipop mastopexy. Finally, for significant skin excess requiring maximum control of the breast skin envelope to achieve the lift, there may also be a horizontal cut along the breast fold, called the inframammary fold. So, this scar pattern is called an anchor scar pattern or inverted-T. For this most extensive scar pattern for a mastopexy, you achieve contour at the cost of more scars, but these are easily concealed in swimwear or in a bra.

Nirav B. Patel, MD, JD, FCLM

Depending on your skin quality and aesthetic goals the incisionswould be one of following:
• Periareolar incision: made around the outer perimeter of the areola (nipple).
• Vertical or lollipop incision: made around the areola and vertically down to the breast crease.
• Anchor-shaped incision: uses the periareolar and lollipop incisions as well as a third incision that extends horizontally underneath the natural breast crease

Yes. Look up the anchor approach