Hybrid Breast Augmentation
- Private airport transfers (arrival & departure)
- Dedicated personal assistant throughout your stay
- All-inclusive accommodation with daily breakfast
- Premium aftercare and recovery support
What is Hybrid Breast Augmentation?
Hybrid breast augmentation is an advanced cosmetic procedure that combines traditional breast implants with autologous fat transfer (fat grafting) to achieve optimal breast enhancement results. This innovative technique allows surgeons to use implants for significant volume increase while using your own fat to refine contours, improve upper pole fullness, enhance cleavage, and create a more natural transition at the implant edges.
The Procedure
The procedure is performed in two stages during the same operation. First, fat is harvested via liposuction from donor areas such as the abdomen, thighs, or flanks. This fat is then processed and purified. Next, breast implants are placed through your chosen incision (typically inframammary, periareolar, or transaxillary) and positioned either under the breast tissue or under the chest muscle. Finally, the purified fat is strategically injected around the implant to smooth edges, fill in the upper pole, enhance cleavage, and create natural contours.
Ideal Candidates
Ideal candidates are women seeking breast augmentation who desire a more natural look and feel, have adequate fat stores for harvesting, want to address asymmetries or contour irregularities, desire enhanced upper pole fullness and cleavage, or are looking to camouflage implant edges for a seamless transition.
Benefits
- Enhanced Natural Appearance: Fat grafting softens implant edges and creates smoother, more natural-looking contours
- Improved Upper Pole Fullness: Addresses the common concern of lack of fullness in the upper breast
- Better Cleavage: Fat can be strategically placed to enhance cleavage between breasts
- Dual Body Contouring: Removes unwanted fat from donor areas while enhancing breasts
- Customized Results: Allows for precise sculpting and asymmetry correction
- More Natural Feel: The added fat layer creates a softer, more natural feel than implants alone
- Reduced Rippling: Fat coverage helps minimize visible implant rippling, especially in thin patients
- Long-lasting Results: Combines the permanence of implants with long-term fat retention (typically 60-80%)
Risks and Complications
Risks
- Fat Resorption: Not all transferred fat will survive (typically 60-80% retention); some volume loss is expected
- Standard Implant Risks: Capsular contracture, implant rupture, malposition, infection
- Calcifications: Fat necrosis can create small calcifications that may be visible on mammograms
- Asymmetry: Uneven fat retention between breasts may occur
- Extended Surgery Time: Longer procedure time increases anesthesia exposure
- Fat Embolism: Rare but serious complication if fat enters bloodstream
Important Considerations
- Adequate Fat Stores: Patients must have sufficient donor fat for harvesting
- Weight Stability: Significant weight fluctuations can affect results
- Smoking: Must quit smoking to ensure optimal fat graft survival
- Mammography Considerations: Inform radiologists about fat grafting history
- Multiple Sessions: Some patients may need touch-up fat grafting sessions
- Cost: More expensive than traditional breast augmentation alone
- Recovery: Longer recovery due to combined procedures
Frequently Asked Questions
Once you’ve paid a 30% deposit and have secured your surgery date. We recommend paying your outstanding balance as soon as possible so you can receive your surgery itinerary. But if you’re unable to pay straight away - we need it paid latest 30 days before your scheduled surgery date.
We ask that you pay 30% of your total invoice.
Receipts for payment do not happen automatically. A member of our team waits for the payment to hit banking and then have it feed to our accounting system. Generally this can take 2-4 days once you have sent your payment.
We always recommend having a credit card on hand or at least a debit mastercard or visa.
Also make sure you notify your bank you are going overseas. You can do this either via online banking, in branch or calling your bank directly. AMEX doesn’t require this.
Only breakfast is included but you can eat like a King in Thailand with some of the best restaurants in the world. Also feel is very affordable.
We do recommend you bring a protein powder and greens powder (any brand) with something like spirulina or wheat grass in it. This is because after surgery clients are generally not hungry and can become quite nauseous
Yes, you can. We accept all major credit cards however you’ll incur a 3% transaction fee. If you wish to pay via credit card we will send you a payment link.
Cancellation with 30 or more days’ notice: Cancellation before 30 days will incur an AUD 3000 cancellation fee.
Cancellation within 29 days or less: All surgery packages canceled less than 30 days before the scheduled surgery date will lose 30% of their total invoice price
Cancellation within 7 days: Cost of surgery is forfeited unless Azurite Package is rescheduled
Cancellation on the day of surgery: The cost of surgery is forfeited unless Azurite Package is rescheduled within the travel time window (departure flight window).
If a client decides to not proceed with a scheduled surgery during their stay in Thailand or another Azurite location, they will incur an additional hospital package fee if they choose to proceed with the surgery at a later date.
There are no refunds on surgeries that you choose not to proceed with if you are on a multi-surgery package due to the discount given.
Refunds will be given for medical reasons that are not pre existing.
Yes, you can bring one companion for free as your support person. However, to avoid additional charges generally the companion stays with you on the sofa bed at hospital. If your companion does not want to stay at hospital you will be invoiced additional nights to keep your hotel reservation while at hospital. Current rate is 150 AUD (but is subject to change)
At Azurite we use a select team of ISAPS accredited plastic and reconstructive surgeons and have made the decision to not be associated with a surgeon name, and results only. Full details of surgeon will be provided upon deposit payment made.
Yes, all of our packages include accommodation at our partner hotel the Chatrium Residence Sathorn. As a One Bedroom Deluxe Suite. If you require an additional room or a two bedroom you’ll be invoiced an upgrade fee.
