Benefits & Risks of Breast Uplift Surgery
You need to make an informed choice about whether the potential benefits of breast uplift surgery justify these inevitable risks. For more information, please select Breast Uplift Surgery
• Internal bruising occasionally occurs and may require removing some stitches on the breast to wash out the bruising from beneath the skin. This has no effect on the long term outcome of breast uplift surgery.
• Alteration in nipple sensation is pretty common in the short term with patients experiencing decreased or increased sensitivity which can persist for 2-3 months. In the vast majority of patients this improves as the operation is designed to preserve some nerve supply which allows sensation to return.
• Breast uplift surgery does leave scars on the breasts. These will usually go through a phase of being a bit red and firm initially, but will usually improve gradually over several months.
• Scarring will also occur inside the breast. This should be taken into account when undergoing screening mammograms. For more queries please select Breast Uplift Surgery
• Some patients do succeed in breast feeding after uplift surgery. If you would like to breast feed in the future, you should ideally consider deferring surgery until you have finished having your family.
• Wound healing on the breast is usually quick and uneventful but very occasionally the junction of the “T” scar underneath the breast may take slightly longer to heal than the rest of the stitch lines.
• Very rarely there may be loss of a small amount of the skin margin of the areola of the nipple. This usually only occurs in patients who are heavy smokers
