The 2025 ISAPS global survey shows breast lifts up 48 percent in a single year while augmentations slipped. Dr. Frank Agullo of Southwest Plastic Surgery explains the one exam that decides lift or implant, why the donut lift changed the conversation, and what the internal bra adds.

Forbes asked whether Motiva Preservé is the Rolls-Royce of breast implants and described a recovery of days instead of weeks. Dr. Frank Agullo walks through what those days look like at Southwest Plastic Surgery.

The two questions that open every breast reduction consultation, answered up front: the practice does not work with insurance and will refer you to a surgeon who does, and the surgery runs $11,000 to $15,000 depending on whether the internal bra mesh is used, with the operating room, anesthesia and two surgical bras included. Dr. Agullo explains what raises a quote and what recovery looks like week by week.

Most patients are surprised by one thing about a lift on its own.

Dr. Frank Agullo of Southwest Plastic Surgery explains breast implant illness, textured implants, going smaller, and what removal does to breast shape.

Dr. Frank Agullo explains breast reduction at Southwest Plastic Surgery: real pain relief, the weight question, the risks, and the recovery support that follows.