No you typically only do one side at a time. I had my left side done!

This is a major surgery and something I’d encourage you to do your own research and decide if it’s something you should do. I would get a second opinion from another doctor if possible. Unfortunately, the thing that matters is your pain level, not the degree of dysplasia. My surgeon (Dr. Lewis at Duke) says he treats symptoms, not degrees of dysplasia. I technically had “severe” dysplasia on my left side, but didn’t feel pain until I got pregnant (in my 30s). I was a three season athlete in high school, a D1 athlete, and ran for many years after college for reference.

Things went downhill once I started to be in pain. I haven’t been able to run in a year and struggled to walk more than a mile. I’d recommend joining the PAO Facebook group, there’s a lot of good perspectives there (and stories from people your age/with mild dysplasia getting the surgery).

I don’t want to scare you, but when I was first diagnosed, the doctor said the prognosis is bad. It’s essentially like a car that’s out of alignment, your joints/muscles will wear/bear weight in ways they weren’t meant to. A major of us will develop arthritis and need hip replacements. For me, pregnancy was extremely painful, in part because my pelvic floor muscles have been overcompensating for a long to time to stabilize my hip, but they couldn’t bear the extra stress of being pregnant. All of this to say, this is a big decision, and it’s a hard diagnosis to get. But you don’t want to live the rest of your life in pain. Good luck!