Breast reduction, Lipo 360 & BBL + chin, arm, and full back lipo - One surgery or 3 months apart?

Question

I want to get a breast reduction, lipo 360 & BBL + chin, arm, and full back lipo. I’m trying get to opinions on what would be better Option 1: all together in one surgery Option 2: breast reduction + chin lipo in November and then lipo 360 BBL + arm and full back lipo in February Which would be a better result?

Yasemin Aydinli, MD · Answer

Whether this can be done in one session depends on a detailed medical assessment, blood results, weight, smoking status, clotting risk and the expected duration of anesthesia all matter, and that decision belongs to your surgeon after the full evaluation. Combined surgery is done routinely, including in my own practice, and I frequently combine breast surgery with liposuction and a BBL in one operation for healthy patients. There is one thing I always warn those patients about, and you should know it too. After a fat transfer you need to keep pressure off your buttocks for a few weeks, which normally means lying on your front, and after a breast reduction you cannot lie on your chest. Combined, you end up on your back, pillows under the thighs protect the fat only up to a point, and the extra pressure can reduce how much of the transferred fat survives and can shift some of it. Patients who accept that trade do fine, patients who want the maximum from their BBL sometimes prefer to do it as a separate stage. Either way, the choice should follow your medical evaluation, not a general rule.

Mats Hagstrom, MD (license on probation) · Answer

Personally, I would split this into two procedures.There are a lot of variables to take into consideration.
A lot of this has to do with how extensive or aggressive each of the procedures is going to be.Ask your provider to show before and after pictures of previous patients who had this much surgery done in one session.
 You should also consider that One surgeons are doing this much surgery in one session surgeon fatigue becomes a real, and the temptation to cut becomes very real.
I suggest you have a few in person consultations with other plastic surgeons in your community.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom MD

Breast reduction, Lipo 360 & BBL + chin, arm, and full back lipo - One surgery or 3 months apart?

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