Traditionally, excess skin and breast tissue were removed during a breast lift to shrink a floppy and deflated breast into a perky breast that sits higher on the chest wall. Over time as techniques have become more refined and the anatomy of the blood vessels of the breast were better understood, the technique of auto-augmentation has become more popular. “Auto-augmentation” takes the tissue that would have previously been discarded and it is redistributed and shifted in the breast to augment the volume of the breast. This uses your own tissue as an all-natural mini breast implant. There are different techniques for this whether or not you've had a previous breast augmentation with an implant in the past, so it’s usually an option for most.