What's the difference between liposculpture and a brazilian butt lift?

Thanks for your question.  Liposculpture is often part of the Brazilian
Butt Lift (BBL) procedure because a Brazilian Butt Lift has two parts.  The first part is the liposuction to shape
the buttocks and then there is a fat transfer part where you take the fat that
is removed and you re-inject it to the butt to give it a it a fuller, rounder
look.  So essentially, liposculpture is
just part of the BBL procedure.

Liposculpture is basically using liposuction technique to sculpt the body - such as abdominal etching or creating a more narrow and defined waistline, and so on.  A brazilian butt lift is injecting this removed fatty tissue into the buttocks to augment and provide more volume.  Liposculpture only removes the fat and creates improved contours but by itself does not provide more volume to the buttock, however, due to shaping and narrowing the waist and thighs, the butt can appear larger since the surrounding tissue are smaller.  So basically the right procedure depending on your concerns.Best of luck and hope this information helps!- Dr. Roger Tsai@DrRogerTsai

Thank you for your question. This is a great question, since some of the surgeons who answered it, do not know the difference between liposuction and liposculpture. These are not interchangeable terms. Liposuction is fat removal, a debulking procedure. Liposculpture is fat removal and sculpting the areas from where the fat was removed. For example, defining the semilunar line where the lateral rectus muscle meets the oblique muscles, creating the depression between the lateral pectoral muscle and anterior border of the latissimus muscle, defining the paraspinous muscles in the back to create a muscular lower back, creating a "six pack", defining the muscular anatomy of the arm, you get the picture. Liposuction and liposculpture are the same for those surgeons who only know how to make an anatomic area less fat, but cannot do the definition based on the muscle anatomy. A Brazilian Butt Lift or BBL is injecting the fat into the buttocks for shaping and enhancement which was collected with liposuction (liposculpture in the hands of a body sculpting surgeon). Without good liposculpture of the surrounding anatomical areas which border the buttocks, the results are less than optimal. I hope this helps.