Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Blog | Dr. Linderman

Combining plastic surgery procedures is actually a fairly common practice. In certain situations, it's even encouraged. For example, if you'd like to have a mommy makeover involving work on your breasts as well as a tummy tuck, it makes sense to have these procedures done at the same time.

Advantages to Combining Procedures

There are several advantages to combining plastic surgery procedures. Hospital costs and anesthesia fees will be reduced, since they're only charged once instead of multiple times as they would be if you had the procedures performed separately. In addition, recovery time is reduced, and your final results will be even more dramatic.

Disadvantages to combining procedures are minimal, but should be discussed with your doctor. If the procedures take longer than around six and a half hours, complications with your anesthesia become more likely. Multiple procedures also have a slightly higher risk of complications.

Overall, the possibility of combining procedures should be discussed in detail with your physician. Dr. Richard Linderman believes combining procedures to usually be in the best interests of the patient, but this decision should be made based on your individual needs and considerations.

To discuss the possibility of combining plastic surgery procedures, please contact Dr. Linderman at 317-848-5400 to schedule a consultation at our Indianapolis, Indiana offices.