What if You Don't Have Enough Fat for Brazilian Butt Lift?

What if there isn't enough fat in your stomach or thighs to for Brazilian Butt Lift? How can you still get a bigger butt without implants?

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Brazilian Butt Lift in Thin Patients

Hi there- I have had some excellent outcomes in patients who, for a few months before surgery, went on weight gain diets. Once the body accumulates a bit of fat, we are able to transfer as much as possible to the buttock, with a pleasing improvement in shape and a new proportion. The patient than loses the excess weight, but keeps the new shape (in other words, you will get smaller after you lose the weight, but the new shape and proportion of your buttock to the rest of you is maintained)... more

Gluteal Reshaping

Brazilian butt lift involved remove fat from the body and injecting the fat back into the desired gluteal area. Some patients may be better candidate for this procedure than other patients. Some patients may have more fat to inject than others. What is important is the liposuctioning as well as the injecting of the fat. Contouring the gluteal area with liposuction is just as important as the amount of fat that is injected. So you may still get a nice result even if you think you may not... more

Weight gain for Brazilian Butt Lift

When planning the surgery is extremely important to let your plastic surgeon to what your ultimate goals are for the size and shape of your butt. In our practice, if the patient does not have just enough fat for the goal that she is considering we recommend that the patient gain 10 to 15 pounds before the surgery. This will give us more tissue in fact work with and will help us reach the goal that she is interested in. If the patient is extremely thin or if extra weight gain is not an... more

Not enough fat for Brazilian Butt Lift

It is very rare that one cannot find fat pockets accumulated in certain area to empty and transfer to the buttocks. The love handles, thighs, and back are such areas were fat can be harvested and the body is sculpted.

Then don't do it

This is one of the worst operations we do, in my humble opinion. I have been in practice over 30 years and find buttock augmentation to be something I have no desire to do. Sometimes some well planned liposuction can help re shape the buttocks - but adding fat and implants to them is usually not the best.

Not enough fat for Brazilian Butt Lift

With careful operative design and knowing how fat metabolism works, a surgeon can give you a very good buttocks enhancement. Your present fat stores are distributed into fat cells in a specific pattern that gives your body its shape. The amount of fat is determined by calorie intake, your metabolic rate, and your energy expenditures. Even if you take out some fat, as long as the caloric intake, metabolic rates, and energy expenditures don't change the amount of fat will come back to what... more

Not much

If you don dot have fat ,then you will get less result. Buttick implants and injectable material have high risk of complications. Combination of lipo and fat grafting will work.

Kamran Khoobehi, MD

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New Orleans Plastic Surgeon

There is no substitute for fat yet.

IF you do not have enough fat, there is littel you can do. However, the results of a Brazilian Butt Lift are often enhanced by doing agressive liposuctionin the small of the back and in the hip regions to create the illusion of a bigger buttock. Fillers are not a realistic option.