Will hitting my butt after a BBL affect results?

Hello @Ngon2464, thank you for your question. Is likely that the act of hitting your butt after a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) won't affect results if there is no trauma or significant force applied. The BBL procedure involves transferring fat from other parts of your body to fill and reshape the buttocks area, so what we want is the fat to implant and survive where it was seeded. Best wishes! Alana Gonzalez MD, FACS. American Society of Plastic Surgery Member (ASPS), International Federation for Adipose Therapeutics and Science Member (IFATS), Colombian Society of Plastic Surgery member (SCCP)

Thank you for your question regarding whether hitting your buttock after a BBL affects the results. It could affect your BBL results if you frequently hit your buttock in the same place multiple times. I do not think you are clumsy enough to have this happen. If you bump your buttocks once or twice after the BBL it should not ruin your results or leave indentations. If you are careful especially in the first two weeks, you should be out of the woods in terms of leaving any permanent indentations. I would suggest a minimal activity, and when you are out and about, I would suggest you have somebody help you move around during your recovery. I hope this helps answer your question regarding whether hitting your buttock after a BBL affects the results.

Dear Ngon2464,
it is unlikely that minor hits will cause fat necrosis. I instruct my patients not to sit for 2 solid weeks. We provide them a specialized pillow that our patients can sit on during that time. They can sleep on their stomachs or sides. Fat viability depends a lot of surgeon technique. The fat has to be placed back into the buttocks as soon as possible so that it has a greater chance of survival. It has to be placed carefully so that not too much fat is placed in only one area.
Daniel Barrett, MDCertified, American Board of Plastic SurgeryMember, American Society of Plastic SurgeryMember, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

When undergoing a brazilian butt lift, I always advise my patients to be extremely cautious along the areas where fat has been grafted in order to avoid excess fat loss. My postoperative protocol is no sitting for 2 weeks following surgery and no sleeping on your back for 6 weeks. It is always important to consult your plastic surgeon for the correct protocol to follow after your BBL. Make sure you consult with a board certified plastic surgeon to determine the best rules to follow after surgery.
Frank Lalezar MDBoard Certified Plastic Surgeon

After an operation, such as Fat grafting to the buttocks, the best thing is to avoid trauma and compression to areas that have received the fat. What we do know about Fat grafting is, that compression can compromise the blood flow to this grafted site, and therefore decrease the amount of fat that remains. I would follow closely the instructions you received from your board-certified plastic surgeon regarding postoperative compression. We recommend six weeks of no compression to the area that received fat and six weeks of compression to the area from which we took the fat. This seems like a long time, however, we hope this provides the best results. We are happy to help in any way we can.

I continue to tell people to focus the reference on the single two most important valuables when it comes to Liposuction and fat transfer procedures. Those are understanding your own candidacy for the procedure, and choosing the best provider.
In the end, what determines if the procedure is a success or not is almost always related to those two variables, and all other variables become relatively insignificant.
The quality of your outcome is not going to be based on if you fall down or not. It’s going to be based on if you were a good candidate for the procedure in the first place, and choosing the best provider.
The process is the same. To get a quality assessment and help that providers have multiple in person consultations. Preferably stay local whenever possible and avoid virtual consultations whenever possible. Have more consultations than you think necessary. During each consultation, take an active role inventing the provider. Do this by bringing pictures of your own body to the consultation to use as a reference. Ask each provider to open up their portfolio and show you their entire collection of before and after pictures of previous patient who had similar body characteristics to your own.
Look very carefully at areas treated with Liposuction to make sure there are no contour irregularities anywhere. Begin to recognize what quality results look like on previous patients who look like you in the before pictures. This requires having pictures of your own body to start with.
Don’t guess what you look like. Start the process by having a complete set of pictures taken the same way plastic surgeons take before and after pictures.
For fat transfer results always confirm the timeframe of when the picture was taken. Early Fed transfer results can look very impressive but do not in any way represent final results. After pictures should be taken at least 3 to 6 months from the date of the procedure. An experienced provider should have no difficulty showing you at least 50 sets of before, and after pictures of commonly performed procedures like a domino liposuction or the BBL.
Create a rating system of quality results, and make careful notes during each consultation about the quantity and quality of before, and after pictures showing. Being shown a handful of preselected images, representing the best results of a providers career is insufficient to get a clear understanding of what average results look like in the hands of each provider. As provider to show you a variety of outcomes, including excellent results, average results and results that did not turn out, as well as they had hoped.
Delivering consistent quality, liposuction and fat transfer is far more difficult than most people believe. The number of plastic surgeon to do these procedures well on a regular basis, and can consistently Deliver predictabl outcomes is small.
Most plastic surgeons are not as good a liposuction as they think.
Mastering this procedure requires years of total dedication with a total commitment to becoming the best.
The results from Liposuction or permanent and irreversible. You’ve done poorly patients can be left disfigured and these results cannot be improved upon.
Do not assume anything when it comes to plastic surgeons, the credibility, experience or competence. Insist on seeing sufficient evidence of competency before considering scheduling surgery. I recommend patients have at least five in person consultations before considering scheduling surgery.
You’ll be reminded of the outcome every day for the rest of your life. The time to put in the effort is now before you have the procedure.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom, MD