Contact & consultation

Arranging an assessment

Outpatient appointments are booked through the hospital on the numbers below; international patients can ask for Michael Yu. Bring a list of your current medicines, including anything that affects clotting, your weight history over the past two years, any previous breast imaging or surgery records, and a written description of what bothers you. If you have been offered a plan elsewhere, bring it: reviewing a plan is a legitimate reason to book.

What the assessment measures

Where the nipple and areola sit relative to the fold beneath the breast, and whether the upper half of the breast is full or has emptied. Breast base width, which sets the widest device a chest can carry without visible edges or distortion; tissue pinch thickness, which decides how much coverage there would be; skin quality and elasticity; chest-wall symmetry; weight stability; and whether any breast imaging or family history makes a diagnosis the first question rather than an operation.

Asking about the plan

Ask what each operation would change in your case and what it would leave exactly as it is. Ask whether a lift is needed at all, which incision pattern it would require and what the scars would look like; if a device is proposed, which plane it would sit in, what surveillance it commits you to, and what would happen if it failed. Ask what a revision would involve and who would do it. And ask what would make this the wrong operation for you — a surgeon who answers that question specifically is assessing you rather than presenting to you.

Before you commit

No decision needs to be made at the first appointment, and no operation is required by any calendar. Take the plan away, read it against the guides on this site, and come back with questions. A discount that expires, or pressure to book before an assessment is complete, is information about the clinic rather than about your breast.