Why Don't All Surgical Butt Lifts Involve Repositioning Tissue to Retain Shapeliness?

asked 1 year ago by 9941anon in San Francisco, CA
Latest answer by John P. Di Saia, MD
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Tags: shape, tissue

Patients often complain that surgical butt lifts leave them with flat buttocks that look elongated and unnatural. To solve this problem, while performing a surgical lift some doctors "fold" existing fat and tissue back into the buttocks, using them to round out the newly tightened skin. If this procedures works so well and is safe, why don't all doctors use it? Also, is there a special name for this type of lift?

6 answers to Why Don't All Surgical Butt Lifts Involve Repositioning Tissue to Retain Shapeliness?

Butt Lifts vary...

Hello, As you have discovered butt lifts vary as the surgeons who perform them. There is not a "Book of Butt Lifts" from which surgeons obtain their techniques and patients themselves vary in their geometry before surgery. I would suggest looking at a given surgeon's work and listen to what he or she tells you regarding what can be expected before you have surgery. Best Regards, John Di Saia MD

John P. Di Saia, MD
Orange Plastic Surgeon

Buttock lift and folded tissue

Some surgeons do fold or rotate some soft tissue into the buttock during a butt lift, however, I find they look a bit funny because they do not seem to reach the spot where they need to be placed. Often they look like a shelf above the flat buttock.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Buttock lift with auto-augmentation: solution for the flat buttock

As you alluded, not all buttock lifts are the same. Although a buttock lift that just involves the excision of skin will help correct the ptosis or drooping of the buttock, it will often leave the buttock flat and shapeless on lateral view. Now this is often fine if you are a man, but most woman want to maintain a shapely buttock contour. The goal is to have the point of maximum projection opposite your pubic bone. To acheive this, instead of excising this tissue, it is rotated... more

Joseph Michaels, MD
Bethesda Plastic Surgeon

Buttock Lift

Now you have opened a whole new LARGE topic of buttuck tissue lift. First many people lump the terms of lift and enlagement together. These terms are totally different. Lift is to move the tissue to a higher place, with or without changing the size. enlagement means increase in volume. To lift the buttock, as in after massive weight loss, will require large incision, and during this procedure one can take some of the skin and fat on the hips that are usually removed... more

Samir Shureih, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

Buttock Auto-Augmentation

The simple answer is that it's a more difficult and extensive procedure and that you need to make sure your surgeon is planning to perform it as part of you butt lift. Your description of it is perfect and though it goes by several different names, your surgeon should be able to describe it just as you did.

Mark Broudo, MD
Miami Plastic Surgeon

Buttock lift and augmentation with your own tissue: The Mustache

This is a more extensive procedure than a traditional buttocks lift which is essentially a dermolipectomy procedure. These procedures have many names. Technically, it is an autologous buttock augmentation with a buried de-epithelialized pedicled adipocutaneous flap (wordy, huh?). Others have called it Buttock lift with auto-augmentation or more simply the "Mustache Flap"

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

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