Can a person have breast augmentation and gastric sleeve performed in one surgery?

Hello, thank you for your question. Technically, both procedures could be done at the same time. It is not recommended, because your breast will sag after you loose a lot of weight, even if you don't have a lot of volume, the best thong to do is have your granitic sleeve, and then think about your breast surgery after you loose all the weight and stabilize in a given weight, if you do it before, you will definitely have to do a breast revision after loosing weight. Another problem is mixing a gastrointestinal procedure with a clean procedure like a breast augmentation, and there could be a risk of infection afterwards, so don't put yourself at risk. Hope to have been helpful, good luck with your surgery 

Technically I guess you could have those two surgeries together. I would not recommend that. With the gastric sleeve they'll be entering your abdomen with scopes and filling it with air that can cause great discomfort. It was also can cause distortion of the abdomen which may not give the plastic surgeon the best landscape to judge your augmentation once this done. I would separate the procedures.Good luck.Earl Stephenson Jr, M.D., DDS, FACS

Thank you for raising the question about performing breast augmentation with another procedure.  It's a common question/issue.  While it is frequently safe to do a breast augmentation with many other procedures, I don't feel it makes sense to do both of these procedures simultaneously.  Any significant weight/body changes that would occur after a sucessful gastric (stomach) weight loss operation might negatively impact breast appearance even with implants.  There is likely to be significant breast changes and drooping even with implants in place.  In addition, a gastric procedure has a different sterility classification than breast implant surgery and theoretically could negatively impact the implants.  I would separate these two particular procedures.  I inform patients to reach a stable weight before any breast/body contouring for best results.  Good luck!