Can lipo give my butt more side projection? (photos)

Hello @bug6813, thank you for your question. Yes, lipo can potentially give your butt more side projection to create a better silhouette. It is important to note that this desired outcome will depend heavily on your individual anatomy as well as skill of the physician performing the procedure and the surgical plan presented. The ideal solution for you may require liposculture (body contouring)to achieve long term results. A consultation is vital to establishing a surgical plan that meets your needs, meets your expectations, and takes into account what is possible. Best wishes! Alan Gonzalez MD, FACS. American Society of Plastic Surgery Member (ASPS),International Federation for Adipose Therapeutics and Science” Member (IFATS), American Society of Plastic Surgery Member (ASPS), Colombian Society of Plastic Surgery member (SCCP).

Thank you for your inquiry and photos, based on photos it looks like you are also a candidate for tummy tuck in order to have a better result with flat tight belly, with time with only lipo on stomach area stomach skin will become flaccid. A full tummy tuck with lipo 360 with bbl would leave good results and give buttocks projection. I suggest seeking board certified plastic surgerons to discuss further details. Best of luck

Hi! Yes… sort of. Lipo can give your butt the illusion of more side projection. Reducing your waist line will make your butt look wider therefore improving your silhouette. Additional fat transfer to you butt (LATERALS AND HIPS) will also improve your silhouette. As for Jplasma on the arms, it will help with skin contraction. It will not be comparable to an arm lift but if you don’t want the scars, jplasma is your best option.
Please understand that liposuction will make everything you circled smaller because it addresses excess fat, but it will not address excess skin. The folds on your back will get better with lipo……they will probably not disappear but they will get better. I would recommend any energy assisted liposuction like vaser or jplasma to help with skin contraction on these areas.

Best of luck,
Dr. Miguel Mota

Doing liposuction in the flanks will actually make the buttock loo fuller and larger. Treating the back bra roll area will not visually change the buttocks. Liposuction with Jplasma can be very helpful.

The issues you face are skin laxity and fat distribution. Your back skin is loose, and further lipo, even j plasma, will not remove all the laxity. Same with the arms.
The only way to get more projection is by adding fat. Without seeing you in person, I would advise you to be cautious. The best way to harvest the fat is with traditional lipo, to protect the fat cells so they will more likely survive transfer. It comes down to how much fat you heve, the skin tone and your expectations.

There are techniques that can be used during liposuction to sculpt your curves in a way that gives the illusion of reshaping the buttocks. Liposuction can be performed on the other areas you mentioned but you may have some loose skin as a result. Visit with a board certified plastic surgeon near you to determine if you are a good candidate to add J Plasma to your procedure.

Have you had previous cosmetic surgery? Previous Liposuction of your torso?
If so, that would be very important information in regards to making an assessment. Patients over the previous Liposuction are going to have limited potential for improved result by having secondary liposuction procedures.
The areas marked off have significant amounts of skin, Laxcity and skin. Laxcity is not treated with fat removal. The transition between your waist and buttocks could be improved, but it’s not the area you’ve circled. Well done arm liposuction can give very high patient satisfaction and excellent results even in individuals who have skin laxity. Delivering consistent quality liposuction results is more difficult than most people believe. Extremity liposuction is technically more difficult and the number of providers who can do this procedure well on a consistent basis including making accurate assessments and deliver predictable results is relatively small. There is a substantial variation in Liposuction’s skills among plastic surgeons, despite being board-certified, having years of experience, and an overall good reputation. Do not assume that somebody is good at Liposuction, because they have all the right credentials.
A substantial number of plastic surgeons are simply not good at liposuction and don’t like performing the procedure.
Because Liposuction results are permanent and irreversible and can lead people to be disfigured. It is paramount the patience to put in a solid effort to find the best provider. It’s also very important to understand your own candidacy for the procedure. Not everybody is a good candidate for Liposuction and understanding who is a good candidate and who is not is very important.
Personally, I don’t think you’ll find Renuvion to add anything beneficial to the procedure. Finding the right provider is the single variable that is going to determine if you have quality outcomes or not.
To find the right provider and get quality assessments, I recommend patience, have multiple in person, consultations with local, board-certified plastic surgeons, who seem to have a solid reputation for doing Liposuction.
I suggest patients start by having at least five in person, consultations and consider scheduling more unless they feel very confident they found one of the best providers. During each consultation, ask each provider to open up their portfolio and show you their entire collection of before and after pictures of previous patients, who had similar body and arm characteristics to your own. And experience plastic surgeon should have no difficulty showing you the before and after pictures of at least 50 previous patients.
Being shown a handful of pre-selected images, representing the best results of a provider’s career is totally insufficient to get a clear understanding of what average results look like in the hands of each provider, what results would look like, based on your candidacy or how many procedures like this they’ve actually done.
Do not assume anybody is good at Liposuction until you’ve been shown sufficient quality and quantity of documentation, proving competence.
It is also imperative, that patients understand their own candidacy for the procedure. Individuals who have other variables like skin laxity are never going to have the same type of results that patients who have good skin elasticity without skin laxity have the potential of obtaining.
In the end, the skill of the surgeon and the candidacy of the patient are the only two variables that matter.
In my first-hand experience, Renuvion did not offer any significant skin tightening on any of the patients I treated during a year of using that device.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom, MD