BBL - any advice for intramuscular fat transfer?

I would strongly advise AGAINST getting a fat transfer intramuscular for a BBL. The risks outweighed the benefits. Placing the fat inside or under the muscle for a BBL can create serious complications like a fat embolism. Fat embolism is when a fat cell travels inside your blood system and blocks circulation. If one of them gets into larger blood vessels leading to the heart or lungs, it can cause life-threatening complications. The buttock has large blood vessels increasing the risk of fat embolism.

Hello @MR2212, thank you for your question. It would be best to seek out several specialists and listen to other options. In my opinion, this is something completely new to me; I had never heard of the technique of transferring fat to muscle. In fact, fat would not be able to enter the bloodstream. In the muscle the fat is between cells so which means it cannot integrated. For more information and recommendations, it is prudent to consult with one or several board certified plastic surgeons. Best wishes! Alan Gonzalez MD, FACS.

Hello @MR2212. There are worldwide recommendations from the Task force for Safety in Gluteal Fat Grafting to reduce the risks in BBL surgeries. Fat embolism during surgery can happen when there is injury to deep veins. They are deep to the gluteal muscle fascia. So buttocks lipoinjection should be performed carefully and it should be avoided to inject into the muscle. There are also other tools and techniques to reduce the risks like ultrasound mapping, special patient positioning during the surgery, canullas that are resistant to bend during injections. I hope this answer can help you.
Kind regardsAlexander T. Hamers MD