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Allow meto share with you some information that you may not hear elsewhere. There areonly two proven safe and relatively effective methods for Buttock Augmentationand Hip Augmentation: 1) Autologous Fat Transfer (using your own fat,transferring from one area of the body to the other) and 2) Buttock/HipImplants (semi-solid silicone rubber implants that cannot rupture &/orleak). Both are very good options so what it comes down to, like any surgery,is proper patient selection. Indeedbecause 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 offat to harvest. Another tip is that if you purposely gain weight (i.e. fat) forthe procedure, the fat you lose first as you get back to your baseline weightis that very same fat that was transferred into your buttock...so don't fallvictim to this recommendation. Although using your own fat is relativelysafe, the one serious complication that can rarely (< 1%) happen is"fat embolism" in which some of the fat gets into the blood streamand 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 beingtransferred. This iseven more likely to happen when using fillers like PMMA and hyaluronic acids.Also fillers, when injected in large quantities, have a relatively hightendency to migrate away from the original area they were placed and tend tostimulate a lot of inflammation and a subsequent disastrous amount of scartissue/hardening. Thusbuttock/hip implants become a very good, safe, and long term reliable optionfor most patients seeking buttock augmentation (at least in my practice). Iprefer to insert the buttock implants through a 2 inch long incision over thetailbone (concealed within the crevice between the buttock cheeks) and the hipimplants through a ~ 1 inch incision just below the beltline above the hipregion. The buttock implant should always be placed under or within the gluteusmaximus 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 ofthe muscle. Therefore it is extremely important to seek consultation with aboard certified plastic surgeon who specializes in this procedure (in fact bothimplants and fat transfer so that s/he is not bias). And in this case too, at least inmy surgical practice, the infection rate is minimized to ~5%. Glad to help.Depending upon the amountof your current fat reserves and their distribution, you may or may not be areasonable candidate for fat transfer. If you are wanting to utilize thefat to further augment your buttock in addition to implants, then I caution youagainst this. The reason being that the fat needs to be placed into thebuttock muscles for optimal survival, however, this is exactly where theimplant 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 thathas an implant. Bottom line, I recommend consulting with a boardcertified plastic surgeon
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
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.
Making the buttocks larger requires some sort of a surgical procedure: fat grafting or implants; however, padded implants (placed in pants) is one way to make the buttocks appear larger.
Traditionally the only way to treat symptomatic (hard, painful, and/or infected) silicone granulomas in the buttock is to directly excise the problematic area, unfortunately leaving a deforming contour and large scar. If treatment is rendered earlier than later, before...