Do I have enough fat to have good BBL results? (Photos)

Hi, thank you for sharing your question. The ability for you to achieve a “good” result will depend on how much volume/projection you want. You may not have enough fat to achieve a large buttock but your back and flanks can be contoured to give the appearance of projection. All of the fat available for transfer can be grafted to the buttocks.

Thank you for your question and pictures. I would recommend you liposuction with BBL for betters results. If you're willing to travel, Surgeons in the Dominican Republic have experience and very high standard of excellence when it comes to plastic surgery. I'm positive you can get what you're looking for

Dear Creative837211,
based on your photos, you look like a good candidate for a BBL. Liposuction of your abdomen, back and flanks should give you more curves and hourglass shape and fat transfer to buttocks should give you more projection. I would suggest you to consult a board-certified plastic surgeon because only after a thorough examination you will get more information and recommendations.
Daniel Barrett, MD
Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Thanks for the question.

In this regard, I recommend you waist and back Liposculpture, getting better curves especially in the waist, improving your body contour.

Finally, I suggested take the fat we get and transfer to the buttocks and hips, to mold them and get better volume, contour and butt projection, is that we know as "Brazilian Butt Lift" (BBL).

Kind regards

You are very limited to donor fat. I offer a "Composite BBL" - combination of fat and Sculptra injections. Fees from $12,000. Best to virtual.

Based on your pictures, you are an excellent candidate for a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL). The optimal BBL outcomes are achieved with: 1) use of VASER liposuction to harvest the fat, 2) a closed looped system such as Puregraft to process the fat, and 3) strategic micro-packet transplant technique. These three processes have demonstrated over 95% fat graft take. This means that your results will be stable as long as you maintain your weight. As an official VASER trainer, I am routinely referred unhappy BBL patients. One of the most common reasons for disgruntled BBL patients is that patients are not able to accurately communicate their desired buttocks goals to their surgeons. A buttocks assessment tool can be an invaluable tool to communicate to your surgeon the exact buttocks size and shape you are desiring. A Skype or FaceTime consultation with a BBL specialist can help you get an accurate recommendation and pricing.

Respectfully,
Arian Mowlavi MD, FACS
Realself 100 Hall of Fame Inductee

I don’t think it should be difficult to get enough fat to do a BBL.

I have a feeling that when Liposuction was done during your first procedure it was done with you laying on your back.

This is pretty common when done in conjunction with a tummy tuck.

Doing body from one position is some optimal.

Your first surgeon left a lot of that that should’ve been removed and your love handles specifically in the transition zone from your buttocks to your waist.

That area has room for improvement and could accentuate S-curves dramatically by simply doing quality Liposuction.

Fat can easily be harvested from those areas, the under arm area (armpit) , your upper back, arms or inner thighs.

By far the most important decision is finding the most talented and experienced provider when it comes to both Liposuction and fat transfer.

Delivering consistent high-quality liposuction and fat transfer results is far more difficult than people believe.

The difference in outcomes among different providers is sometimes mine boggling.

My number one advice do you and all other people seeking these procedures is to spend a thorough amount of time and effort in properly vetting providers to find the most experienced and talented one for your procedure.

To do that patients need to schedule multiple in person consultations at which time they should ask each provider to show their entire collection of before and after pictures.

An experience provider should have no difficulty showing you 50 or more sets of before and after pictures and highly experienced providers will have several hundred or possibly even thousands.

Seeing a handful of representative pictures which in fact are the best results of that provider‘s career is insufficient to have an understanding of what average results look like or have any idea how many of these procedures that surgeon has performed.

Ask the provider to show you ideal outcomes, average outcomes and less than outcomes.

I also recommend patients read all reviews on all various physician review websites and avoid providers for the any significant number of justified negative reviews.

The absence of justified and negative reviews is more important and far more telling than an abundance of positive reviews.

Vetting a plastic surgeon properly cannot be done with a virtual consultation.

There is no substitute to meeting someone in person to find out who that person is and to get a clear representation of their competence.

These procedures are permanent and irreversible.

Find the right plastic surgeon and everything falls into place including getting enough fat to do the procedure correctly.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD