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What if I Don't Have Enough Fat for a Brazilian Butt Lift? (photo)

asked 4 months ago by noname74413 in tampa, FL
Latest answer by Ricardo A. Meade, MD
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Tags: alternative, candidate, thin

Im 5 9 weighing 130 pounds most drs in the tampa bay area dont do butt implants anymore, but i feel i dont have enough fat for the look i want to achieve. Im VERY flat in the back and i want a nice bubble butt. HELP!

4 answers to What if I Don't Have Enough Fat for a Brazilian Butt Lift? (photo)

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Skinny BBL

You are a poor candidate for BBL. Your curves need little improvement, if you are a model, photoshop your curves. Liposuction risks leaving trackmarks. If you insist on something then get a buttock implant but travel to someone who does it regularly. There are some surgeons in the US that do it but few because it's got many complications. I've spoken witih several people about it because I've been approached by many just like you with the exact same... more
Ricardo A. Meade, MD

Dallas Plastic Surgeon

www.DoctorMeade.com

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Brazilian butt lift in the inpatient

Brazilian butt lift is a liposuction fat injection. I've done this procedure in thin patients and had success. What you doing with his procedure is changing storage areas for fat if you have excess fat in the back, the flank the abdomen, the arms are the inner thighs this fact can be harvested and put in the buttocks to make flat areas more curvy. You cannot make a large buttocks in inpatient but can change the shape and sometimes you can have more curves. If there's found the waist... more
Wendell Perry, MD

Miami Plastic Surgeon

www.wperrymd.com

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What if I don't have enough fat for the BBL?

Judging from the photo and your measurements it doesn't appear that you have enough donor fat for the Brazilian Butt Lift. In theses situation I usually recomment gaining about 20 pouns of weight and reexamining afterwards. Most of theses patients can,then, undero the procedure. But you must gain about 20 pounds; gaing smaller amounts will not be sufficient.
George Lefkovits, MD

New York Plastic Surgeon

www.drlefkovits.com

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Buttock Implant

Surely you do not have enough fat, nor you have enough for dermis fat graft from the tummy. The only option is Buttock Implant. If you understand the limitation of buttock implants and the need for further surgery and accept that fact then you can have a buttock implant, sub facial or intra muscular. Buttock implants need maintainance, they can get displaced, they can form late seromas and thus you will need further surgery in the future. If you can accept that then you can have... more
Samir Shureih, MD

Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

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