Kent V. Hasen, MD

Many women are in need of both increased breast volume as well as a lift.  The combination of breast augmentation and breast lift in a single surgery is definitely more technically challenging with a higher complication rate and revision rate of either surgery alone, but most the time it can achieve excellent results.  One can look at it this way, if you decide to break the surgeries up into 2 sessions, you are having 2 surgeries 100% of the time.  If you do the 2 surgeries together, you have a higher rate of revision surgery than either alone, but your chances of an additional surgery is only 15-20% of the time.