Bethesda Butt Lift doctors
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Joseph Michaels, MD
Bethesda Plastic Surgeon
11404 Old Georgetown Road Suite 206 , North Bethesda |
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Nia Banks, MD, PhD
Washington DC Plastic Surgeon
8116 Good Luck Road Suite 215, Lanham |
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Eric Chang, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
8860 Columbia 100 Parkway Suite 206, Columbia |
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Douglas L. Forman, MD
Bethesda Plastic Surgeon
11210 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda |
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Roger J. Friedman, MD
Bethesda Plastic Surgeon
11210 Old Georgetown Rd 11210 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda |
Recent Answers
Patients often complain that surgical butt lifts leave them with flat buttocks that look elongated and unnatural. To solve this problem, while performing a surgical lift some doctors "fold" existing fat and tissue back into the buttocks, using them to round out the newly tightened skin. If this procedures works so well and is safe, why don't all doctors use it? Also, is there a special name for this type of lift?
As you alluded, not all buttock lifts are the same. Although a buttock lift that just involves the excision of skin will help correct the ptosis or drooping of the buttock, it will often leave the buttock flat and shapeless on lateral view. Now this is often fine if you are a man, but most woman want to maintain a shapely buttock contour. The goal is to have the point of maximum projection opposite your pubic bone. To acheive this, instead of excising this tissue, it is rotated inferiorly into a pocket made to give maixmum projection oppoiste the pubic bone. This procedure is called a buttock lift with auto-augmentation. This is an advanced body contouring technique and may not be performed by all plastic surgeons so you have to specifically ask what your palstic surgeon will be doing during your procedure. This procedure adds additional operating room and potential surgeon costs to the procedure.
I'm so confused. Several board certified plastic surgeons have told me butt lifts should never be done with the incision in the crease because it disrupts the shape of the buttocks, the skin eventually hangs loose from buttock to back-of-thigh with no demarcation between them, and it looks deformed and hideous. Others have told me they do it all the time with great results and that putting the incision in the crease is the best procedure because the scar is virtually hidden there. Who is right?
The gluteal crease is very difficult to recreate and an incision in the area can disrupt the crease blunting this border between the buttock and the posterior thigh. The two main issues with an incision in the crease is that it won't actually give your buttock a true lift and second it will often be visible in a bathing suit. Depending on how much of lift is required, an incision similar to a lower body lift can be used. This incision runs across the top of the buttock, but can be easily designed to be hidden below the underwear line. If a minimal lift is required, an incision can be hidden on either side of the intergluteal cleft (groove between the buttocks).