Dent Between Waist and Hip. How to Fix It? (photo)

Fat grafting is a wonderful technique for improving contour irregularities.  The area between the hip and the waist sometimes looks like a "dent" as you described.  Liposuction above and below the area can make it look better but it often requires fat grafting to fully improve the shape.  If liposuction is done aggressively, it can further improve the shape but at the expense of perhaps flattening one lateral thigh more so than the other, which will create a worse asymmetry.  Seek out someone board-certified by the ABPS who has experience with fat grafting if this continues to bother you.  Best of Luck!

                    The truth is that fat transfer can be used to augment or create almost any shape.  Hip and buttock fat grafting is the most surgeon dependent plastic surgery procedure, and the results vary widely.   Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of Brazilian buttlifts and hip transfers each year.  Then look at the plastic surgeon's website before and after photo galleries to get a sense of who can deliver the results.

Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA

Thanks for your pictures.  This area should be fat grafted and too bad that was not recognized during your consult and plans made then for grafting after liposuction.

Dr. ES

Thanks for your photos.  It seems like you are slim and has a good result from liposuction.  For the area of "dent," fat grafting should help.

Your issue is very common. The use of "Composite" Liposuction that is lipo on there  hills and fat grafts to the dents/valleys is the best treatment. Lipo alone usually fails. 

The area can be improved to a more smooth transition with combined minimal liposuction and using that under the dent as a graft.  Hope this helps.

 

 

 

 

The depression can be filled with fat grafting   This an outpatient procedure with minimal down time.