Facelift and Breast Lift in One Procedure?

You can certainly have both procedures performed at the same time.  The surgery should take no more than six hours total.  If the surgery takes longer than six hours, I will usually perform them separately.

You can definitely do these procedures at the same time.  The only thing that I strongly recommend at my surgical facility is to stay overnight if the surgery is longer than 8 hours. For your recovery, it may be nice to only have the downtime all at once.  Good Luck!

Multiple procedures can be combined in the same operative room setting as long as the operative time does not exceed 6 hours.  The same surgeons or a team of surgeons can work together to improve both your face and breast appearance.  

If you are healthy and do not smoke it is safe to do these procedures in the same operative setting safely. I prefer to do these in healthy patients only and in non-smokers only. The procedures would be done in an outpatient day surgery setting with a one or two overnight stay. The facial dressing would be removed prior to going home after the second night’s stay.  

Yes, one can combine a face lift and other cosmetic surgery, such as breast lift, in the same operation. Benefits include having only one recovery time and anesthesia. However, splitting the procedures may be more appropriate if the operative time would be too long. Much more commonly combined cosmetic procedures with a face lift include, fat injections, eyelid surgery, and brow lift.

 

It is not uncommon for patients to have more than one cosmetic surgery procedure at a time. As I exclusively specialize in faces, I will perform blepharoplasty and facelift, or rhinoplasty and facelift, in a single procedure. One important issue is surgical time, where in my hands, few surgeries ever take more than 3 ½ hours, which helps speed up recovery and reduces risk. Another issue is specialization by your surgeon, where the natural separation is between faces and body work. In my office, my associate will perform the breast or other body work while I perform the facial work, assuring patients of the shortest surgery time and having work by specialists in that area.

Hi there-
There are two reasons why combining procedures may not be in your best interests:

Because the postoperative requirements of one procedure conflict with those of the other (for example, you could not combine a buttock lift with a tummy tuck because you will need to be in a reclined position for a while after your tummy tuck, and your butt lift would prohibit you from being on your back side in order to get the best results).
Because the length of operation would be so long as to elevate the risks of the procedure beyond what is reasonable for elective surgery.

There is no reason I can think of that your facelift would compromise the outcome of a breast lift, or vice versa. So in this regard, you should be okay.
However, depending on the details of the breast lift, the details of the facelift, and who is doing them on you, the surgery MAY or MAY NOT be too long to consider safe.
In my practice, I try to limit the time my patients spend under anesthesia to less than 5 hours, because while we don't have a "magic number" beyond which the risks dramatically increase, we do know that after somewhere between 4 and 8 hours of surgery the risks of scary things like blood clots in your legs go way up.
Talk to your surgeon about how long he/she anticipates you being asleep, where and how you will be recovered from surgery, and whether it would be in your best interests to separate the two.
It's really all about the relative risk- in my hands and in my opinion, your risks from separating the two (assuming you are having a full facelift) and going to sleep twice are lower than the risks you take being asleep for a very long time.

Great question. These two procedures can often be combined, but there is a limit to how many hours you should be under anesthesia. There is a wide range of facelift procedures available, and some of the more involved ones take many hours on their own to perform. However, at your age, I am guessing that your face procedure is likely to be on the more minor side, so it is probably fine to have your breast surgery done at the same time. Two surgeries with one recovery period is often a great way to go for patients who don't have alot of down time.

Depending on your surgeon's speed and surgical plan, these procedures can probably be combined into one procedure. In general, we recommend limiting the amount of time under general anesthesia for elective, outpatient surgery to 6 hours or less. If he can get both done under that amount of time, then, by all means, it is safe to proceed.

There are many options for both with combined surgery typically ranging from 3-7 hours depending on the extent of the procedures as well as the possible need for breast implants.
Risks of being under general anesthesia can increase with the length of time. Although both can be performed at one sitting, it may not be the best option depending on the procedures required and your overall health.
Learn more about what are the best procedures for you prior to making a decision.