Liposuction to Buttocks, Is this a Bad Idea for Me? (photo)

Thank you for your question. Based on your photos you appear to be a good full body intense liposuction including abdomen, waist, laterals and upper and lower back to improve your body contour and get better curves, especially in your waist area and brazilian Butt lift taking the fat we get and transfer to the buttocks and hips, to mold them and get better volume, contour and butt projection.
Kind regards,Dr. Emmanuel Mallol Cotes.- 

Your buttocks look fine and I don't think I would agree to liposuction them for any amount of money. The only areas I see in the posted photos that would be amenable to liposuction are the love handles, the area just above the hip bones/iliac crest on the side and back, the saddle bags and a very limited amount of the inner upper thighs. If you do any liposuction of the area between the buttocks and back of the thighs there is a high risk of disrupting the natural shelf that the buttocks sit on. If that happens they droop downward and you cannot really fix the problem.

I hope you realize that this format of posting questions and receiving answers lacks the face to face direct communication required for you to make an informed decision regarding your surgery.

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Liposuction to the buttocks is certainly a viable option for you; however, as you no- doubt have already heard, a great deal depends on skin tone and elasticity.  If your skin is lacking in elasticity, another option may be a combination of liposuction and skin/fat excision.  This decision would be made most efficiently by direct examination.   What may be a better option is to liposuction the areas around the buttocks:   love handles, lateral thighs, and banana rolls.   By decreasing the size of the fatty areas around the buttocks, the buttocks will look better if not smaller because all the surrounding areas have been proportionately made smaller.

lipo aone wont do the trick. You need a combination of substraction and adition. the ratio is three to one so you dont need to worry about being too big. Brazilian Butt lifts are a fat transfer technique. When fat is transferred the cells-not just the fat deposits-are transferred. I liken it to making a coke bottle out of a coke can. It's sculpture surgery so look for the art, not just the science, behind the consultation experience. All surgeries carry risk. Consult a board certified plastic surgeon who has done a ton of these surgeries and who's credentialed to do this surgery at a local hospital.

 

Thank you for the question and pictures.

Liposuction and can be effective in reducing the prominence and/or size of the buttocks. However, you are wise to be concerned about the area between the buttocks and thighs;  this area tends to be problematic if treated.  I would suggest that you avoid any manipulation of the gluteal fold area.

Best wishes.

I caution patients when asking specifically for buttock lipo because the fine attachments that keep the buttock skin up may result after lipo in a flat and hanging buttock. I would focus on the other areas.

The pictures that you provided show that you probable do no need lipo of the buttock area. The lateral thigh lipo will improve your appearance and possible lipo of the medial thigh but the buttock lipo will not .

Leave your buttock alone, get the lipo in the other areas and see the result after a few months. Than if still unhappy consider other options. 

You must be very careful with liposuction of the buttocks and especially near the gluteal fold. Liposuction in this area may cause the buttocks to drop and make it more droopy. Fat injection to the buttocks probably the better answer to lifting the buttocks and improving the shape. The fat injection the buttocks you don't always have to make it bigger, you can improve the shape.

Be very careful with any liposuction to the buttocks.

Thank you for your questions and photos. 

You are right to be concerned about performing liposuction on the buttocks or in the area immediately below the buttock crease.  Any removal of fat in these areas  will only exaggerate the "droop"  and give you a flatter buttock.  This problem could be addressed with ether fat grafting or a buttock lift.   IF you were to fat graft you risk losing the defining crease between your buttock and thigh and a buttock lift  will leave you with a significant scar.  After reviewing your photos I would not recommend ether procedure and would suggest you proceed with liposuction of just the inner and outer thighs.