I had a breast lift and my stitches opened up in many places. Is this normal? (photos)

Thank you for your question.This is not uncommon when it comes to breast lifts or reduction. There is a significant amount of tension on the skin after it is tightened. I would continue to follow the care instructions from you surgeon. These openings tend to heal very well.

While it is not unusual to have nipple areola/skin separation after a standard mastopexy, and it's not necessarily true that the closure of this wound may lead to an infection.If you were my patient (and yes I have had such wound separations just like all plastic surgeons), I would numb the area around the skin separation and put a few well placed staples to approximate the wound edges.  The beauty of staples is that they don't strangulate the tissue leading to unwanted scarring, they don't close the wound entirely engendering an infection, but they do take the tension off the suture line letting it heal by secondary intention with minimal to no scarring.My old boss used to say, fibroblasts make better tightrope walkers than they do broad jumpers which means when the staples bring the edges of the wound together, the fibroblasts (wound healing cells) can heal the wound faster and with less scarring than when the wound edges are apart.