What does your hemoglobin level have to be to have breast augmentation?

Dear BrittyBaby22,every plastic surgeon has his own preoperative protocol which he recommends to his patients. I would suggest you to discuss this with your plastic surgeon.Daniel Barrett, MD
Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

13 HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL – A SAFE number – Surgery involves blood loss, the preop lab work several weeks or a month is important to know a starting point before surgery and to detect anemia. This way prompt detectioncan help correct this with supplements such as multivatimins (specially B complex) and iron. The goal is to have surgery at least with 13 Hb. This way recovery will be optimal and anemia symptoms are less likely to occur and lessens the chance (although rare) to have a blood transfusion in cases of severe blood loss. For breast implants, since the blood loss is not significant a Level above 11 can be an acceptable number.