Augmentation Mastopexy in Manchester
Breast uplift with implants in one operation, with a consultant plastic surgeon at Deansgate Hospital in central Manchester. From £8,950, with your exact price confirmed at consultation.
★★★★★ 5.0 from 275+ patient reviews
- Uplift with implants from £8,950 · uplift alone from £8,000
- Free consultation — £25 booking deposit, redeemable against your treatment
- One of the more demanding breast operations — consultant-led throughout
- Overnight stay where needed, and every follow-up included
- CQC registered hospital in central Manchester — surgery and aftercare in one place
Prefer to talk? Call 0161 470 9280
Book Your Consultation
Tell us a little about you and our patient team will call you back to arrange a time that suits.
🔒 Your enquiry is completely confidential. We will never share your details, and our patient team is discreet.
Augmentation Mastopexy
Breast Uplift with Breast Implants Manchester
Augmentation mastopexy, also known as a breast lift with implants, combines two distinct procedures into one surgical operation:
Mastopexy (Breast Lift): This corrects sagging breasts. Over time, factors like gravity, ageing, weight fluctuations, and pregnancy can lead to a loss of breast firmness and projection. A mastopexy repositions the breasts and nipples higher and tightens excess skin to create a more youthful appearance.
Breast Augmentation: This increases the volume of the breasts. Implants come in various shapes (round or anatomical/teardrop) and profiles to achieve a personalised result.
Augmentation Mastopexy
What is a breast lift with implants?
Treatment Overview
Augmentation mastopexy combines two operations in one: a breast uplift, which removes surplus skin and moves the nipple and breast tissue back up the chest wall, and a breast augmentation, which adds an implant to restore volume and upper pole fullness. It is the operation for a breast that is both empty and fallen — which, after pregnancy, breastfeeding or weight loss, most breasts are.
It is also the most technically demanding of the routine breast operations, and the one with the highest revision rate in aesthetic breast surgery. The reason is simple mechanics: the uplift tightens the skin envelope and pulls everything up, while the implant pushes outwards and downwards. The two forces work against each other, and the operation is a balancing act between them. Done well the result is excellent and lasts. Done by someone treating it as an uplift with an implant thrown in, it needs revising.
Which is why the consultation matters more here than almost anywhere else, and why we will sometimes recommend staging the two operations rather than combining them.
Do you actually need the implant?
There is a test worth doing before your consultation. Stand in front of a mirror and lift your breast with your hand into the position you want it to sit. If you like what you see, an uplift alone will get you there and you do not need an implant. If it still looks empty at the top, or narrow, or your bra cup gapes above the nipple, that emptiness is what an implant fills.
A good number of women arrive convinced they need implants when what they need is a lift, and a smaller number the other way round. Adding an implant that is not needed buys you a lifelong device, a replacement operation somewhere down the line, and a heavier breast fighting the lift you just paid for. We will tell you which group you are in.
Fuller and Higher, In One Operation
Augmentation Mastopexy Manchester at Deansgate Hospital
Deansgate Hospital is a CQC‑registered independent hospital in the centre of Manchester, with its own operating theatres, its own ward and its own resident medical cover overnight. Your augmentation mastopexy is performed by a consultant plastic surgeon on the GMC specialist register, who you meet at your consultation and who carries out the operation themselves.
For this operation in particular, continuity matters. It is the breast procedure most likely to need a small adjustment at some point, and where a revision is required for a surgical complication it is carried out here at no further cost to you rather than billed back. A clinic renting theatre time cannot make that offer, and most do not.
We are a few minutes from Deansgate and Oxford Road stations, with parking nearby, and we see patients from across Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire.
Uplift, implants, or both — and one stage or two?
Choosing the right operation
Your degree of breast ptosis decides the lift pattern, and your upper pole emptiness decides whether an implant belongs in the plan. Using Regnault’s classification: in pseudoptosis the nipple is still above the inframammary fold but the tissue has dropped below it, and an implant alone often corrects it. In Grade I the nipple sits at the fold and a small periareolar lift is usually enough. In Grade II the nipple is below the fold and a vertical lollipop lift is needed. In Grade III the nipple is below the fold and pointing downwards, which needs a full anchor pattern.
The second question is whether to do both operations at once. Most augmentation mastopexies are safely performed in a single stage, and that is what we do in the majority of cases. But where the lift required is very large, where the implant wanted is very big, where the skin is poor quality or heavily stretched, or where there has been previous breast surgery with scarring, staging the two operations three to six months apart gives a more predictable result and a lower revision rate. That is a surgical judgement, not a sales one.
One Stage
Both operations in a single anaesthetic. One recovery, one set of fees, and the result visible from the outset. Appropriate for the majority: moderate ptosis, a sensible implant size, and good skin quality. Slightly higher revision rate than either operation alone, which we quote honestly at consultation.
Two Stages
Implant first and lift three to six months later, or the reverse. Two anaesthetics and two recoveries, but far more predictable where the lift is large, the implant is large, the skin is poor or there has been previous surgery. Each stage is quoted separately. We recommend it where the anatomy calls for it, and we will explain why.
To find out which grade you are, whether an implant belongs in your plan, and whether one stage or two is right for you, book an augmentation mastopexy consultation in Manchester on 0161 470 9280 or enquire online. You will be examined and measured, and told plainly.
Am I suitable for augmentation mastopexy?
Things to consider before a breast lift with implants
The ideal candidate has breasts that are both fallen and deflated, a stable weight held for six months or more, a completed family, good general health, and realistic expectations about scars. The classic presentation is a woman a few years after finishing breastfeeding, who has lost volume from the upper part of the breast and gained loose skin at the bottom, and who cannot solve it with a bra.
You should wait if you are planning further pregnancies or significant weight loss, both of which will undo the result. Smokers are asked to stop for at least six weeks either side of surgery: this operation combines a tight skin closure with a foreign body underneath it, and smoking raises the risk of both wound breakdown and implant loss substantially. We will not operate on a current smoker.
You should also be clear-eyed about the implant. It is a device, not a permanent fix. It does not have a fixed expiry date, but a proportion of implants need replacing at some point in a lifetime, and if you have this operation in your thirties you should expect further breast surgery at some stage.
Size Discipline
The single commonest cause of a disappointing augmentation mastopexy is an implant too large for the lift. A heavy implant in a freshly tightened envelope stretches it back out, drops the breast, widens the scars and undoes the work. Your surgeon will give you a size range your tissue can carry, and it may be smaller than you hoped.
Scars Are Certain
Every uplift scars: around the areola, usually down to the fold, and often in the fold itself. They fade substantially over twelve to eighteen months but they are permanent. Anyone offering a lift with implants and no scar is describing an augmentation, which is a different operation with a different result.
What Augmentation Mastopexy Can and Cannot Do
Realistic outcomes
It can raise the nipple to or just above the level of the inframammary fold, reduce a stretched areola, remove loose skin from the lower pole, restore upper pole fullness that your own tissue no longer provides, narrow a wide breast and improve mild to moderate asymmetry. Most patients describe the result as looking like their own breasts at their best, rather than like someone else’s.
It cannot make a breast permanently immune to gravity, ageing, pregnancy or weight change. It cannot fix cleavage that is determined by how far apart your breasts sit on the chest wall, which is skeletal. It does not correct a significant chest wall or rib asymmetry, though it can camouflage it. And it does not remove the possibility of further surgery later — between the implant and the lift, this is an operation you should expect to revisit at some point in a long life.
Augmentation Mastopexy Cost Manchester
From £8,950
Augmentation mastopexy — a breast uplift with implants, both sides — starts from £8,950 at Deansgate Hospital. For comparison, a breast uplift alone starts from £8,000, breast enlargement alone from £5,950, implant removal with an uplift from £8,950 and implant exchange with an uplift from £9,500.
The fee covers your surgeon, your anaesthetist, the hospital, your stay, dressings, and all routine follow-up for twelve months. Implants are included within the price.
Where the operation is staged over two sittings, each stage is quoted separately at your consultation. Revisions will be chargeable.
Finance options are available. You will be given a fixed written quotation at your consultation, with no obligation.
Your Augmentation Mastopexy Journey
Breast Uplift with Implants, Step by Step
Every augmentation mastopexy at Deansgate Hospital follows the same path: a full surgical consultation with the consultant who would operate, Regnault grading and implant sizing, a cooling-off period, a second planning appointment, surgery in our own theatres, and twelve months of included follow-up. Here is what each stage involves.
You are examined standing and lying down. Your surgeon measures the sternal notch to nipple distance, the nipple to inframammary fold distance, breast width and base diameter, skin quality and stretch, and the degree of upper pole emptiness. Those measurements place you in a Regnault grade, which determines the lift pattern, and they set the range of implant widths your chest can carry.
Implant sizing is done properly, not by eye. You will try sizers in a bra, look at the profile options, and discuss plane — under the muscle, in front of it, or dual plane — and shape. Your surgeon will give you a size range and explain why a larger implant would compromise the lift. This is the conversation where the honest surgeons and the accommodating ones part company.
You go away with written information, a fixed quotation and a cooling-off period, and a second appointment before surgery to confirm the plan.
You are marked while standing, because the position of the new nipple is judged against the inframammary fold and gravity, and that relationship disappears the moment you lie down. Under general anaesthetic, the implant pocket is created first — usually over the muscle although sometimes under— and the implant placed. The skin envelope is then tailored around it using a periareolar, vertical or anchor pattern depending on your grade, the nipple and areola are transposed upwards on their own blood supply, and the areola is reduced. The breast tissue is secured internally rather than relying on the skin to hold the shape.
The sequence matters: getting the implant in first means the lift is tailored to the actual volume rather than a guess. The operation takes two and a half to three and a half hours. The procedure is a day case and so you leave the hospital the same day.
Week 1. Tightness and pressure rather than sharp pain, well controlled with simple painkillers, and more of both than after an uplift alone because of the muscle. Surgical bra day and night. No lifting above shoulder height, no driving, no pushing or pulling. You have a dressing change at 1 week.
Week 2. Swelling and bruising begin to settle and you are reviewed in clinic at week 2. Desk-based work is usually possible at the end of this week or the start of the next. The breasts will look high, tight and too firm — that is the expected appearance at this stage, not the result.
Weeks 3 to 6. Light walking only — nothing that raises your heart rate or blood pressure. No chest or upper body training, no running, nothing that bounces. The support bra stays on around the clock for six weeks. This is the single instruction patients most often cut short and the one that most affects how well the lift holds against the implant.
Weeks 6 to 12. Most restrictions lift. Gym returns including chest work, and you can move into an underwired bra once your surgeon says the tissues have settled. The implants drop and soften into the pocket and the breast takes its real shape — the change between six weeks and three months is substantial and reassuring.
Months 3 to 12. Scars redden and firm between three and six months, then fade and flatten over the rest of the year. Silicone gel or tape from full healing. The final shape is judged at six months and the final scar at twelve to eighteen.
Augmentation mastopexy carries the risks of both operations it combines, plus the interaction between them, and it has the highest revision rate of the routine breast procedures. You should hear that plainly rather than discover it later. Revision most often means a small adjustment — a scar revision, correcting a nipple that has settled slightly high or low, or addressing asymmetry — rather than starting again.
From the lift: delayed healing where the scar lines meet at the T-junction, altered or reduced nipple sensation, asymmetry, fat necrosis, and scars that widen or thicken. From the implant: capsular contracture, rippling, malposition, rotation of a shaped implant, and the eventual need for replacement. Rare but serious: implant loss through infection or wound breakdown, and nipple loss, both strongly associated with smoking and with very large lifts.
You should also know that breast implants are associated with two rare conditions, BIA-ALCL and breast implant illness, which your surgeon will discuss with you and which form part of the consent conversation for any implant operation. You will be given written information on both, and on the implant manufacturer’s own warranty and registry details.
Implants do not prevent breast screening, but tell the mammography service you have them so the images are taken and interpreted correctly. Breastfeeding is often still possible but cannot be guaranteed.
Deansgate Hospital is a registered independent hospital in central Manchester with its own theatres, ward not a clinic renting theatre time from someone else. Your consultant plastic surgeon is on the GMC specialist register, you meet them at consultation, and they perform the operation themselves.
Because this is the breast operation most likely to need an adjustment at some point, aftercare being included rather than billed is the practical difference here. Follow-up appointments, dressing changes and any revision required for a surgical complication are covered by the quoted fee. Your implant details are registered and recorded, and we remain your point of contact for as long as you have them.
Augmentation Mastopexy
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does augmentation mastopexy cost in Manchester?
Augmentation mastopexy — a breast uplift with implants, both sides — starts from £8,950 at Deansgate Hospital. Implants are quoted separately because the choice is yours and prices vary by manufacturer. For comparison an uplift alone starts from £8,000 and breast enlargement alone from £5,950. The fee covers your surgeon, anaesthetist, the hospital, your stay and twelve months of follow-up. Finance options are available.
What is augmentation mastopexy?
It is a breast uplift (mastopexy) and a breast enlargement (augmentation) performed together. The uplift removes surplus skin, raises the nipple and reshapes the breast; the implant restores volume, particularly the upper pole fullness that lifting alone cannot create. It is the operation for a breast that is both fallen and deflated.
Do I need implants as well as an uplift?
Only if you want more volume or upper pole fullness than your own tissue provides. Try this at home: lift your breast into the position you want with your hand. If you like what you see, an uplift alone will get you there. If it still looks empty at the top or your bra gapes above the nipple, that is what an implant fills. Adding an implant you do not need means a lifelong device and a heavier breast working against the lift.
Why does this operation have a higher revision rate?
Because the two halves pull in opposite directions. The uplift tightens the skin envelope and raises everything; the implant pushes outwards and downwards. Balancing them is the skill of the operation, and small adjustments afterwards are more common than with an uplift or an augmentation alone. Revision usually means a minor correction — a scar, a nipple sitting slightly high or low, an asymmetry — not starting again. We quote the honest figures at consultation.
Should it be done in one operation or two?
Most are safely done in one, and that is what we do in the majority of cases. Staging three to six months apart is better where the lift required is very large, the implant wanted is very big, the skin is poor quality or heavily stretched, or there has been previous breast surgery with scarring. It is a surgical judgement and we will explain ours.
Where will the scars be?
That depends on your Regnault grade. A small Grade I lift can be periareolar — a scar around the areola only. Grade II usually needs a vertical or lollipop pattern, adding a line from the areola down to the fold. Grade III needs an anchor, adding a horizontal line hidden in the fold itself. All are permanent, red and firm for three to six months, then fading over the following year. Most are concealed by a bra or bikini top.
What size implant can I have?
A range determined by your chest width, your breast base diameter, your skin quality and how much lifting is needed — not by a cup size you name. Too large an implant is the commonest cause of a disappointing result: it stretches the envelope you have just tightened, drops the breast, widens the scars and brings the revision forward. Your surgeon will give you a range and explain the ceiling.
Where is the implant placed?
Usually dual plane or submuscular, meaning partly or wholly beneath the pectoral muscle. That gives better soft tissue cover over the upper edge of the implant, less visible rippling and a more natural upper pole slope, which matters more in a lifted breast where the tissue has already thinned. Your surgeon will discuss the options and the reasoning at your consultation.
How long do I need off work?
Two weeks for a desk-based job. Four to six weeks for physical work or anything involving lifting and reaching overhead. Driving at around two weeks, once you can perform an emergency stop without hesitating — check with your insurer. Full gym including chest work at six weeks.
Can I breastfeed afterwards?
Often yes, because the nipple and areola stay attached to the underlying tissue with their ducts and blood supply intact, and an implant beneath the muscle does not sit in the milk-producing tissue. But it cannot be guaranteed, and some women find their supply reduced. If you are planning a pregnancy soon it is usually better to wait, both for this reason and because pregnancy will change the shape the surgery has just created.
How long will the implants last?
There is no fixed expiry date and modern implants are not designed to be replaced on a schedule. In practice a proportion need replacing at some point, for rupture, capsular contracture or a change in the breast around them. If you have this operation in your thirties, plan on the likelihood of further breast surgery at some stage. Your implant details are registered and recorded here.
Do you see patients from across Greater Manchester?
Yes. Deansgate Hospital is in Manchester city centre, minutes from Deansgate and Oxford Road stations, with parking nearby. We see patients from Salford, Stockport, Altrincham, Bolton, Wigan, Warrington, Cheshire, Lancashire and further afield. Consultations are in person with the consultant who would perform your surgery.
Thinking about a breast lift with implants?
Augmentation Mastopexy Manchester
Augmentation mastopexy asks a straightforward question with a less straightforward answer: is your problem position, volume, or both? Getting that right — and being told honestly when a smaller implant, or a staged plan, or no implant at all is the better surgical decision — is worth far more than a headline price.
Before committing to any procedure, do your research: check that your surgeon is a consultant plastic surgeon on the GMC specialist register, ask how many augmentation mastopexies they perform and what their revision rate is, ask to see their own results, and find out where the operation is carried out and who looks after you if something goes wrong at two in the morning. Then book a consultation with us in Manchester on 0161 470 9280.