Can I Get a Breast Lift Without Removing my Nipple Piercings?

All metal piercings need to be removed before surgery for the use of an electrocautery in the operating room. If your piercing is close to the surgical site as in your case with the nipple rings, we remove them before surgery, have them sterilized during and reinsert immediately after surgery under a sterile dressing. Breast of luck. 

I always recommend to my patients that a foreign body like a piercing be removed temporarily before surgery. At the appropriate time, these can be re-inserted. See what preferences your PS has. Best wishes, Dr. Aldo.

The presence of nipple piercings will not interfere with breast lifting or reduction surgery.   For sterility reasons, they should be removed during surgery. Best wishes.

These devices cannot be sterilized, and do conduct electricity. The infection rate and the burn risk are both unacceptably high, and I doubt you would find a board certified plastic surgeon willing to participate in an experiment that has already been done and has failed. 

Best wishes. 

All body piercings need to be removed before any surgery.  They are a source of infection and could conduct electricity used during the procedure and cause a burn.  It is a common misbelief than piercing holes will close up immediately when the piercings are removed.  This is not true, they do not close up.  You will be able to reinsert your piercings easily once the surgery is over.