Two-fers in Breast Surgery

Many women who desire better breast shape require restoration of volume and also elevation due to excessive sagging or what we call ptosis.

This can be a very challenging situation for a plastic surgeon and, believe me, experience DOES matter.  

A recent article discussed doing both operations together.  The overall re-operation rate is 23.2%- this was 20% for primary cases and 30.9% for secondary cases.  The most common complication was hard encapsulation, then poor scarring and recurrent ptosis.   

The re-operation rate of 23.2% is higher than either procedure performed independently.  Again careful patient selection and the experience of the plastic surgeon can go along way to making the combined-one stage procedure safe and effective.