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What Surgery Will You Recommend for Major Saddle Bags and Saggy Butt?
asked 5 months ago by Su in Gainesville in Gainesville, FL
Latest answer by M. Vincent Makhlouf, MD, FACS
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Tags: buttocks, saddle bags, sagging, options
What Surgery Will You Recommend for Major Saddle Bags and Saggy Butt?
5 answers to What Surgery Will You Recommend for Major Saddle Bags and Saggy Butt?
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Saddle Bags and Sagginess
For the saddle bags, liposuction would be best. Sagginess of the buttock is not specific enough so the choices would be either placement of the implant or buttock lift.
M. Vincent Makhlouf, MD, FACS
Chicago Plastic Surgeon
Chicago Plastic Surgeon
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Major Saddle Bags and Saggy Butt
For patients with good toned skin, often liposuction may be done on the area of excess fat and then fat transfer can be performed on the buttocks in order to "lift" them. This is often called the "Brazilian Butt Lift." For those that have saggy skin that is severe or have much more skin than fat, a buttock lift may be performed in which the excess skin is removed. If that is the case, it's best to place any incisions along the natural skin creases,...
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Ghada Afifi, MD
Orange County Plastic Surgeon
Orange County Plastic Surgeon
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What Surgery Will You Recommend for Major Saddle Bags and Saggy Butt?
You may be an ideal candidate for liposuction of the saddle bags and autologous fat transfer to the buttocks. In our practice, we call this Natural Fill Buttocks. We utilize the Body Jet to perform the liposuction as we feel this is the gentlest way to remove the fat. In addition to the saddle bags, you may want liposuction around the buttocks, for example lower back and hips. Then transferring the fat to the buttocks will give you increase size and improved contour.
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Butt Lift
If you have saddle bags with buttock laxity, more than likely you also have outer thigh laxity. When the excess skin is loose with dimpling and cellulites, the best option is an outer thigh lift, buttock lift together with buttock augmentation with your own tissue. To see examples, see the following link.
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Saddle Bags and Sagging Buttock
Most commonly and effectively, saddle bags are treated with liposuction.
Sagging of the Bottock may require a buttocks lift/tuck but in younger patients (<60 y.o.) it is usually best to plump the butt back up with either autologous fat transfer or buttock implants and ovoid the unsightly scars of a lift/tuck procedure.Both are very good options so what it comes down to, like any surgery, is proper patient selection. Indeed because at least 50+ % of the fat...
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Ryan Stanton, MD
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon