Injury to butt 4 years ago - can I still get a Brazilian Butt Lift? (Photos)

Thank you for your question. To provide a valid medical opinion I will need to see pictures of you body from different angles. I would suggest to be treated by board certified plastic surgeon with experience in this procedure, to get the best desired results.

Respectfully,
Dr. Emmanuel Mallol Cotes.-

Based only on these photos, you are good candidate for buttock augmentation/shaping with fat grafts and liposuction of abdomen, flanks and lower back. However, only on the basis of in person evaluation of the neuromuscular status of your gluteal area, one could recommend this procedure with more certainty. Good luck.

BBL needs to be done by a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon (look for ASPS logo) who is familiar with BBL's and has the right training and equipment including ultrasound to assist in making sure your transferred ends up in the right layer. Adding fat correctly will loosen things up and add stem cells to the area. I think you'd be ok. Best Wishes!!

Dear Kind218082,
it is hard to tell for sure without an examination. Generally speaking, you should be able to get BBL surgery 4 years after injury. If you are considering a surgery, I would suggest you to consult a board-certified plastic surgeon. 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

It is difficult to answer your question accurately. But I doubt that the BBL procedure (which puts fat above your gluteal muscles) would affect your tightness issues
I would also suggest some deep tissue massages in the buttocks area along with stretching. These may alleviate some of the tightness.
Dr Taranow.

If you already have chronic pain/discomfort there, it will be present post op and can be worse either temporarily or even long term. Since there is no dx to why you have a tight/stiff sensation, it is hard to give you advice about what is likely to happen post op.

Previous gluteal injuries can impact the potential outcome for a BBL procedure. This is especially true in cases were tissue necroses and scar tissue have developed. When that happens there is typically a contour irregulary that develops.

If your contour was not changed by the accident and the tissues feel soft and equal on both sides than most likely the injury will not affect the BBL results.

It’s possible at BBL could aggravate symptoms but must likely you would heal like other patients.

Without seeing pictures we can’t make an assessment in regards to candidacy. If you’re contour is normal of both sides then you can most likely consider yourself a normal candidate for the procedure.

The results Of these procedures very substantially based on who does the surgery. I recommend vetting surges carefully I have a multiple in person consultations with a variety of local board-certified plastic surgeons who have a proven track record for the BBL procedure.

Update.

Since you updated your post with pictures I have a few other thoughts

You have significant cellulite especially on the inner lower part of your buttocks. Cellulite is caused by connective tissue that anchors the skin to the underlying muscle fascia. The same connective tissue limits the distance the skin can be augmented from the muscle fascia.

Adding volume to the subcutaneous fat layer through fat transfer will worsen the cellulite and for that reason I am often apprehensive of recommending this procedure to patients who have significant cellulite. The lateral buttocks as it transitions to the hip dip areas will respond well to volume and blending this into the outer thigh is probably where the procedure will do its best for you.

Still, the female is often not as good at creating shape as it is for simply creating volume.

Well done Liposuction of the love handles and waste can proportionately make the bottom larger and create a smooth continuous S-curve without augmenting the buttocks.

Well done Liposuction alone may be a better option because your bottom is a difficult one to do a quality BBL on.

Plastic surgeons who fail to see inherent limitations such as the presence of significant cellulite and how fat transfer worsens this condition may not be properly experienced or thinking through the entire process.

Everybody has their own opinion but to me I’m not sure your BBL is going to look as good as you had hoped for.

Liposuction alone can deliver very nice improvements and doesn’t have the challenges of fat transfer.

An honest thorough discussion done as an in person consultation with a highly experienced and talented provider is by far the way to go.

Recognize that both Liposuction and Fred transfer results vary immensely among different providers. Delivering consistent high-quality Liposuction and fat transfer results is far more difficult than most people believe.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of wearing plastic surgeons carefully to pick the most experienced and talented provider in your community.

Do this by having multiple in person consultations.

Look for plastic surgeons who have massive collections of impressive before and after pictures and can especially pull out pictures of patients who have very similar body characteristics to your own.

This in combination with not having any significant number of justified negative reviews on various physician review websites while practicing medicine for many years tends to be the hallmark of those who are truly great.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD