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
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
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
In my practice, some patients who already have breast implants decide to have those implants exchanged for new ones and, at the same time, want the position of the breast and nipple lifted. Doing both in the one operation means removing the existing implants, placing new implants, and performing a
Removing and replacing breast implants at the same time as a breast lift (mastopexy) is a combined operation, and the recovery is different from either procedure on its own. In my practice I see patients who are having their existing implants exchanged for new ones and, in the same operating
Apronectomy carries one of the higher wound complication rates of any body contouring operation I perform. Published series report overall complication rates ranging from 13.8% in large database reviews to 56% in post bariatric cohorts, with wound healing problems, seroma and infection making up most of that figure rather than