KY Jelly Butt Injections - Is It Possible?

Question

Hi I'm interested in a bigger booty! I don't have enough fat for a bbl and butt implants around the NY area start at $9,000!! What is the risk of injecting my booty with ky jelly. I heard that's a hydrogel.. Any thoughts? Thank you

Kenneth Hughes, MD · Answer

These injections can create issues other than just pain, hardness, 
swelling, and irregularity.  Infection and skin and tissue death can 
occur as well.  I spend a significant amount of time trying to help 
patients who have had these injections.  
Find
 a  board certified plastic surgeon who performs hundreds of   
Brazilian buttlifts 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, MDLos Angeles, CA

Ryan A. Stanton, MD · Answer

Allow me to share with you some information that you may not hear
elsewhere. There are only two proven safe and relatively effective methods for
Buttock Augmentation and Hip Augmentation: 1) Autologous Fat Transfer (using
your own fat, transferring from one area of the body to the other) and 2)
Buttock/Hip Implants (semi-solid silicone rubber implants that cannot rupture
&/or leak). Both are very good options so what it comes down to, like any
surgery, is proper patient selection. Indeed because 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 of fat to harvest. Another tip is that if
you gain weight for the procedure, the fat that you lose first when you go back
down to your baseline weight after surgery is in fact that fat that you
originally gained and transferred into your buttocks...so don't fall victim to
this recommendation.  Although
using your own fat is relatively safe, the one serious complication that can
rarely (< 1%) happen is "fat embolism" in which some of the fat
gets into the blood stream and 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 being transferred. This can is even more likely to happen when using fillers like silicone, PMMA and hyaluronic acids (and yes, KY Jelly). Also fillers, when injected
in large quantities, have a relatively high tendency to migrate away from the
original area they were placed and tend to stimulate a lot of inflammation and a subsequent disasterous amount of scar tissue/hardening.

Thus buttock/hip implants become a very good, safe, and long term reliable
option for most patients seeking buttock augmentation (at least in my
practice). I prefer to insert the buttock implants through a single 2 ½ inch
long incision over the tailbone (concealed within the crevice between the
buttock cheeks) and the hip implants through a ~ 1 inch incision just below the
beltline above the hip region. The buttock implant should always be placed
under or within the gluteus maximus 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 of the muscle. Therefore it is extremely important to
seek consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon who specializes in
this procedure. And in this case too, at least in my surgical practice, the
infection rate is minimized to ~5%. Glad to help.

Shlomo Widder, MD · Answer

Dear Cammy,  The short answer to your question is no, do not do it. There were few fatality  cases, that were published in the media, due to injection of synthetic material to the butts. The only safe methods to enlarge the butts is fat injection and butt implants. Unfortunately, fat injection do not last beyond 6 - 12 months as I have noticed in my surgery center on many patients who came for butt implants after they had fat injection to the butts by other surgeons. Your best option is butt implants. The are safe, attractive and do not disappear. Consult with board certified plastic surgeons who do lots of butt implants surgeries. Check the before and after pictures to make sure that you like the results because there are different techniques and different shapes of implants.      Best of luck,                       Dr Widder

William B. Rosenblatt, MD · Answer

Do not inject anything other than fat into your buttocks or you will suffer forever with problems.

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