How much does butt injections cost?

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Ryan A. Stanton, MD · Answer

Allow me
to share with you some information that you may not hear elsewhere. There are
only two proven safe and relatively effective methods for Buttock Augmentation
and Hip Augmentation: 1) Autologous Fat Transfer (using your own fat,
transferring from one area of the body to the other) and 2) Buttock/Hip
Implants (semi-solid silicone rubber implants that cannot rupture &/or
leak). 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 transferred will melt away within a year,
most patients are not good candidates because they lack an adequate amount of
fat to harvest. Another tip is that if you purposely gain weight (i.e. fat) for
the procedure, the fat you lose first as you get back to your baseline weight
is that very same fat that was transferred into your buttock...so don't fall
victim to this recommendation.  Although using your own fat is relatively
safe, the one serious complication that can rarely (< 1%) happen is
"fat embolism" in which some of the fat gets into the blood stream
and travels up into the lungs, heart, and/or brain causing serious problems.
This complication is more likely to happen with the larger amount of fat being
transferred. This is
even more likely to happen when using fillers like PMMA and hyaluronic acids.
Also fillers, when injected in large quantities, have a relatively high
tendency to migrate away from the original area they were placed and tend to
stimulate a lot of inflammation and a subsequent disastrous amount of scar
tissue/hardening.

Thus
buttock/hip implants become a very good, safe, and long term reliable option
for most patients seeking buttock augmentation (at least in my practice). I
prefer to insert the buttock implants through a 2 inch long incision over the
tailbone (concealed within the crevice between the buttock cheeks) and the hip
implants through a ~ 1 inch incision just below the beltline above the hip
region. The buttock implant should always be placed under or within the gluteus
maximus muscle. In this position, the implant is less palpable, less visible,
and does not sag or shift/migrate over time unlike implants placed on top of
the muscle. Therefore it is extremely important to seek consultation with a
board certified plastic surgeon who specializes in this procedure (in fact both
implants and fat transfer so that s/he is not bias). And in this case too, at least in
my surgical practice, the infection rate is minimized to ~5%. Glad to help.

Depending upon the amount
of your current fat reserves and their distribution, you may or may not be a
reasonable candidate for fat transfer.  If you are wanting to utilize the
fat to further augment your buttock in addition to implants, then I caution you
against this.  The reason being that the fat needs to be placed into the
buttock muscles for optimal survival, however, this is exactly where the
implant needs to reside and thus risks infection and/or death of the fat.
 Because of this risk, I frequently avoid fat grafting into a buttock that
has an implant.  Bottom line, I recommend consulting with a board
certified plastic surgeon

Kenneth Hughes, MD · Answer

I would not recommend that you allow anyone to inject anything into your
 buttocks.  The material injected can lead to a number of problems.Kenneth Hughes, MDLos Angeles, CA

Samir Shureih, MD · Answer

butt injections are illegal and have caused death in many patients. it is not approved, and is usually done by non medical person. The material injected is commercial and not medical grade.

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