Auto-augmentation is a way of lifting the breast and adding fullness to the upper part of the breast using your own tissue, without an implant. In this operation I reposition a section of your own lower breast tissue, keeping it attached to its own blood supply, and move it to
Recovery is where a good breast reduction (reduction mammoplasty) result is protected. The operation itself takes a few hours, but the healing process takes months. How you manage the first six weeks affects your comfort, your wound healing, and how your scars settle over the year that follows. Recovery varies
Some patients decide to have their breast implants removed and, in the same discussion, ask what happens to the shape of the breast once the implant is gone. For many, removing the implant on its own leaves a skin envelope that is larger than the breast tissue left behind, and
Combining two operations changes recovery. When I remove breast implants (explant surgery) and perform a breast lift (mastopexy) in the same operation, you are recovering from more than either procedure would ask of you on its own. This article sets out what that recovery involves, week by week, so you
Breast implant removal and replacement, also called implant exchange, is a surgical procedure to take out existing breast implants and place new ones in the same setting. In my practice, patients come to this for a range of reasons. An implant has reached the end of its working life. A
If you have breast implants, there may come a point where you decide to have them removed and replaced. In my practice, patients come to this for different reasons. An implant may have ruptured, and a ruptured implant usually needs to come out. Capsular contracture may have changed how the
Mastopexy with auto augmentation is a breast lift (mastopexy) that adds volume to the upper part of the breast using your own tissue rather than an implant. During the operation I raise a flap of your own breast tissue and reposition it higher on the chest wall, so the upper
A breast lift with auto augmentation (mastopexy with auto augmentation) does two jobs in one operation. It lifts the breast and repositions the nipple to a higher position, and it repositions your existing breast tissue, moved and secured as a flap, to add volume and upper pole fullness (1,2). Lower
If you are looking into a breast lift (mastopexy) but would rather not have an implant, you have probably come across the term “auto-augmentation.” It sounds like the operation adds size using your own tissue. In my practice I want to be clear from the outset about what this operation
Breast implants are among the most common devices used in surgery. One of those risks is a rare cancer called breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, usually shortened to BIA-ALCL. It is uncommon, it is linked mainly to breast implants that have a textured surface, and for most patients