Beauty keeps changing its definition over time and with the hourglass figure trend, buttock augmentation/butt lift has become a very often sought procedure. A butt lift procedure reshapes and enhances your butts to improve your overall profile. This can be achieved either by fat grafting using your own fat (popularly known as Brazilian Butt Lift) or with buttock implants or a combination of both.
Buttock Implants
These are silicone prosthesis which can be placed in the subcutaneous/subfascial or intramuscular plane. The incision is placed either in the fold between the buttocks or in the gluteal crease so that it is hidden. Through this incision, space is created either above the muscle or into the muscle and the implant is inserted. It is important that the implant outline is not visible and so sometimes fat grafting is combined with the procedure to give a smooth transition. This is more so with subcutaneous plane implants. With intramuscular implants, the transition and results are more natural, but it is associated with greater chances of injury to nearby structures and bleeding. The implants are available in different sizes and Dr. Priya Bansal will guide you towards the right size and plane suitable to your proportions.
Although a safe procedure with great satisfaction rates, this procedure is associated with risks of implant extrusion, spillage, bleeding complications and wound infections. And thus implants are most appropriate for patients who have limited donor fat in their body. Butt implants are not an option for patients with saggy buttocks.
Brazilian Butt Lift
Brazilian butt lift refers to fat transfer to buttocks and is more preferable method of buttock augmentation as it gives more natural results and the results are longer lasting. Also there is the dual benefit of sculpting other body areas simultaneously. Dr Priya Bansal, board certified female plastic surgeon in Gurgaon, believes in the concept of hour glass shaping and achieving the desirable waist hip ratio of 0.7 or lower. Brazilian butt lift procedure involves three steps:
- Fat is harvested from areas of excess preferably lower back, abdomen and outer thighs so as to simultaneously carve out an hourglass figure. The fat harvest is done using power assisted large bore cannula which decreases trauma to fat cells and improves the fat quality.
- This fat is collected in a sterile canister where it is treated and purified with saline and sedimented to obtain pure quality fat. This entire system is a closed system avoiding any chance of contamination and infection.
- Purified fat is injected into the buttocks by the Expansion Vibration Lipofilling technique using power assisted system attached to a power pump. Usually 400-1100 ml of fat is required to be injected each side. This transfer is done through small 4-5 mm incisions in gluteal crease and so scars are small and inconspicuous.
With the fat transfer technique, some fat gets absorbed over a period of six weeks but whatever fat remains after this period lasts lifelong and is permanent. So some over grafting is always done to account for this loss.
Based on your aesthetic goals, availability of donor fat areas, body shape and proportions, your plastic surgeon will guide you which procedure is best for you and whether you are a candidate for butt implants or Brazilian butt lift.
