Collagen injections vs Brazilian butt lift: butt augmentation

Does a getting collagen injection for buttock augmentation give you the same results as getting a Brazilian butt lift?

5 answers to “Collagen injections vs Brazilian...”

A: Brazilian Butt Lift: Fat injection is the material of choice (not fillers or collagen)

Otto Joseph Placik, MD

SEE VIDEO FOR BRAZILIAN BUTT LIFT RESULTS: Collagen is impractical due to the quantity of material required and the temporary result. Your most reasonable options are fat grafting (Brazilian Butt Lift), Fat flaps with lower body lift, or implants.

A: That would be one expensive butt!

Daniel P. Markmann, MD

Collagen is about $500 per cc, and, we typically inject over 500 cc's per buttock cheek. That would be $500,000 for your entire buttocks!!! Even if there were a cost effective way to inject collagen into your buttocks, it would still not give you as good of a result as the Brazilian Buttocks Lift. This is... more

A: Collagen Butt Augmentation

Peter A. Aldea, MD

Collagen Buttock Augmentation does NOT exist for 2 reasons:1. It is not approved by the FDA and, more importantly, 2. It would be ASTRONOMICALLY expensive. Since a fat  transfer buttock augmentation / Brazilian Butt lift requires 400 to 900 cc of fat PER CHEEK and the cost of collagen is OVER 400... more

A: Collagen butt augmentation prohibitively expensive

Armando Soto, MD

Hi there- The only safe way to increase buttock volume and projection without and implant is to perform a Brazilian Butt Lift, in which fat is liposuctioned from areas where it is not wanted, and injected into the buttocks. The volume necessary is large, and so trying to substitute a filler material, including... more

A: Collagen in buttocks augmentation

William B. Rosenblatt, MD

Collagen is injected 1cc at a time. With a brazilian Butt lift , a lot of fat is injected into your buttocks. There is no filler other than fat that can be used here.

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