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Butt Lift vs. Brazilian Butt Lift?
asked 3 years ago by ms76 in West Palm Beach, FL
Latest answer by Larry S. Nichter, MD, MS
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I recently lost 100lbs and even though I have hips, my butt kind of deflates and sinks in. I was interested in getting a Brazilian Butt Lift, but two plastic surgeons have said to do a Butt Lift (even though I don't have much sagging), and they can overlay the fat on my hips on top of fat in order to not get flat buttocks. Does this sound right or should I pursue the Brazilian Butt Lift?
17 answers to Butt Lift vs. Brazilian Butt Lift?
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Butt Lift vs Brazilian Butt Lift
A Brazilian Butt Lift is a body contouring procedure that reshapes the buttocks (makes them somewhat larger) and reshapes the midsection (liposuction of the abdomen, flanks, and lower back). Butt Lift on the other hand is a much more invasive surgery where the butt skin and fat are lifted (pulled up as if pulling up pants). This procedure is more appropriate for patients that have sagging skin such as after a massive weight loss.
If you really lost 100 lb it is...
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How to know if you need Butt Lift or Brazilian Butt Lift
You need a Butt Lift if you have an excess of skin and a lack of fat which is causing your butt to sag.
You need a Brazilian Butt Lift if you have fat in other places of your body, but not in your Butt.
If you have lost a lot of weight, and the skin sags, it would take an enormous amount of fat injections to plump out your buttocks area. In such cases it might be better to do a butt lift, preferably a Lower body lift, and you will see a great improvement in your figure.
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Butt Lift vs. Brazilian Butt Lift vs Buttock Implants
There are many option to have a more shapely butt. The key to making the right decision lies in the hands of a board certified plastic surgeon who will examine you and determine which procedure is best for you. You need to listen to their advice as they are the experts and examined you whereas our comments have limited application without an exam.
This is a good forum however to let you and others know their options. They include a Brazilian Butt Lift if there is adequate fat available...
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Butt lift vs brazilian butt lift
If you lost 100 lbs. and your buttocks has deflated, you may need to have the excess skin removed as in a traditional butt lift and could also consider having the Brazilian butt lift (fat injected into the buttocks) at the same time. This procedure could help improve the sagging and replace the volume that was lost. The fat could be harvested from the tissue that was removed in the traditional lift and, therefore, would not cause excess sagging elsewhere...
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Butt Lift / Lower Body Lift vs. Brazilian Butt Lift
After 100 lb. weight loss, a “butt” lift or lower body lift definitely seems like it would be the better procedure. In this case the buttocks not only has lost significant volume but there is probably quite a bit of sagging not only of the buttocks skin but also of the skin of the lateral and posterior thighs. A “butt” lift will improve all of these areas. An auto augmentation of the buttocks is often performed as part of the lower body lift and involves rotating...
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Max Polo, MD
Miami Plastic Surgeon
Miami Plastic Surgeon
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Butt Lift or Brazilian Butt Lift?
Congratulations on the weight loss. I can't offer an opinion without a proper examination, but It would be unusual for you to lose that much weight and still be a good candidate for a Brazilian butt lift. It may be possible for you to get the best of both procedures by doing a butt lift in combination with some fat grafting. Just remember:
a Brazilian butt lift doesn't actually lift, it reshapes, improves contour, and adds volume
a butt lift actually lifts, reshapes...
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Mark Preston, MD
Columbus Plastic Surgeon
Columbus Plastic Surgeon
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Deflated butt = no place for fat grafts.
Although overly simplistic, with your outstanding weight loss, sagging or deflated buttocks tissues provide little recipient area for proper fat transfer. Each fat graft globule must be surrounded by living, healthy tissue in order for this tissue to provide oxygen and nutrients to allow the grafts to heal and survive long term. Simply pumping the fat beneath the loose skin will not work!
Excessive skin laxity after weight loss usually requires some sort of skin removal, usually via...
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A Butt Lift is a Butt Lift
After 100 lbs weight loss you most likely have very inelastic buttock skin as well as poor buttock volume. The Brazilian Butt Lift is a term that denotes the use of both implants and fat transfers for buttock reshaping. Don't get fixated on the terminology but focus on the result you want and the experience of your surgeon. Sometimes after massive weight loss there may be redundant circumferential abdominal and flank skin requiring treatment. That excessive...
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Joseph Kurt Bivens, MD
Orange County Plastic Surgeon
Orange County Plastic Surgeon
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Butt Lift or Brazilian Butt Lift?
Both procedures improve the appearance of your buttocks. After 100lb weight lost,most likely you will required skin excision to get rid of the extra skin.To improve the shape I commonly preform butt augmentation with fat grafting at the same time. These two procedures in my opinion will give you the best aesthetic results.
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Buttock lift or Brazillian Buttock Lift (fat transfer).
Congratulations on your 100 pound weight loss! If you have relatively good skin tone and minimal to moderate loose skin. the Brazilian buttock lift with fat transfer can give excellent results. With such a massive weight loss, the buttocks can look deflated and droop. If there is a great deal of skin laxity, a buttock lift which elevates and tightens the buttocks is the best option.I frequently combine the two procedures with fat transfer performed at the same time as a buttock lift...
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Andrew Lyos, MD
Houston Plastic Surgeon
Houston Plastic Surgeon
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But lift versus Brazilian Butt lift
Patients today have many effective ways to contour the Butt. Exercise may improve the shape and tone of the underlying muscle. However, if you continue to have stubborn areas of fat these can be used to your vantage. A Brazilian Butt lift can help contour your abdomen and torso by performing liposuction and then using the fat that is collected to enhance the appearance of your butt.
In your case, after a significant weight loss, you most likely have a large amount of skin and fat...
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To Lift, or to Brazilian Butt Lift? That is the Question
Hi there-
The details of the procedure for any individual patient will depend on the patient's starting appearance and anatomy, the patient's desired goal for appearance, and their preferences for recovery. In order to achieve any one particular patient's goals, we have even combined a minor buttock lift with Brazilian Butt Lifting for maximum benefit.
In other words, you shouldn't think of it as an "either this or that" proposition, but rather as a question of, "how do...
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Butt Lift VS Brazilian Butt Enhancement
Butt lift implies that there is too much skin laxity. with deflation of the buttock and excess skin. There is skin folds and general wrinkling of the skin. Then you need a butt lift which means skin excision.
If your skin is taut and no laxity, but you have a flat butt, then you need a Brazilian Butt Lift by fat transfer.
You can do both procedures at the same time.
Samir Shureih, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
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Brazilian Butt Lift and Butt Lift
It's really hard to know which procedure you need without seeing what you have left. It's great that you lost 100 lbs, Congratulations! But, what is more important as I'm sure you can imagine, is what you have left. If you have a lot of wrinkling of the skin on your buttocks, or overhang, then it would probably be better to do the skin tightening procedure. If you don't have either of these problems, then the Brazilian Butt Lift would probably be a better option as long as you have enough...
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Butt Lift vs Brazilian Butt Lift
After 100lbs weight loss, I'd be more willing to bet you are a candidate for a Butt Lift via skin removal rather than fat grafting (the Brazilian Butt Lift). If you carried so much weight and then lost it, you are both deflated and your skin tone is likely poor. It would take a large amount of fat grafting to "fill things up" and create a tight / toned butt. With skin excision, your surgeon can reset the tone of all the skin on your buttocks, and can actually conserve volume if...
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Michael A. Bogdan, MD
Dallas Plastic Surgeon
Dallas Plastic Surgeon
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Butt Lift vs Fat Transfer
Thanks for your question -
It is somewhat complicated to determine what is best. Many times patients with massive weight loss (congratulations by the way!) have significant amounts of excess skin. This can be a challenge for a traditional brazilian buttock lift.
You may need to have some excess skin removed as well. Brazilian buttock lift is designed to add volume to give your posterior an improved contour. It has limited power at improving large amounts of excess skin.
I hope this helps.
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It depends!
To perform a Brazilian butt lift you need to have excess fat that can be removed by liposuction and then reinjected into each buttock to increase the volume. It is a procedure that is best designed for patients who have small, but not saggy buttocks, and need more volume to fill out their clothes. Problems can arise if the areas that will be used to donate the fat are already loose and saggy because that will worsen typically as the deflated tissues from the fat removal refuse to...
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Manish H. Shah, MD
Denver Plastic Surgeon
Denver Plastic Surgeon