PurposeTo evaluate the results of breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer by using polyglactin 910 absorbable mesh. Patients and methodProspective case series of patients undergoing conservative breast surgery using polyglactin 910 mesh. Patients were included if the size of resection made a favourable aesthetic result unlikely. The study was conducted in a tertiary hospital during the period 2010-2015. ResultsA total of 46 women underwent this technique. The mean age of the patients was 57 years. Postoperative morbidity occurred in two patients (4.3%) due to surgical site infection, which required mesh removal in one and was resolved with intravenous antibiotics in the other. In three patients (6.5%), total mastectomy was performed because delayed pathological analysis revealed margin involvement. There were no difficulties in the radiological follow-up, or radiological recurrences in the breast parenchyma, although a cutaneous recurrence was detected at the lumpectomy scar. Patient assessment of the aesthetic result was favourabe. ConclusionsReconstruction using polyglactin 910 mesh in selected patients is an easy, decisive, and rapid technique. Patient and physician assessment was favourable.