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hello, thank you for your question. Having the BBL done a second time is an option as long as you have enough fat to be transferred. The revision implies that there is less fat than the first time, and scar tissue will make the surgery much more difficult on the surgeon. The percentage of fat survival in the BBL the second time should be about the same. It is hard to give you a recommendation without proper photos. Schedule an email, Skype or in-person consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon for an evaluation and to discuss your goals.
Dear Deanna3030,it is hard to tell for sure without an examination. Based on your photos, it looks like you would benefit from revision surgery. 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, MDCertified, American Board of Plastic SurgeryMember, American Society of Plastic SurgeryMember, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
It is difficult to say without a consultation. You are encouraged to consult a board certified plastic surgeon. This may be corrected using high defintion VASER liposuction to redefine and contour the buttock region to make it more proportional. A Skype or FaceTime consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon will help you get an accurate recommendation for your procedure and for pricing. Respectfully, Arian Mowlavi MD, FACSRealself 100 Hall of Fame Inductee
The location of your flat spot is predictable and often does not improve from a BBL. In fact, it can be made worse.That part of the body can tolerate a lot of pressure. It can tolerate your entire weight while sitting.Pressure bearing areas of the body tend to have more connective tissue that stabilize the skin of the underlying fascia layer.The best example is the palm of the hand. This is also an area that can tolerate lots of pressure.If you compared to the back of the hand it’s very different.You can pinch and tent up with the skin on the back of the hand. Now try that in your mid palm.The skin can’t be lifted or tented up mid palm because it’s connected or anchored to the underlying fashion with these connective tissue bands.These bands do not stretch and do not allow the area to project even when fat is added.In the buttocks the surrounding areas have less of these connective tissue bands in those areas in contrast do expand with the addition of fat. In this sense the flat spot can look worse because the surrounding areas expand more from a BBL.Patients who have a flat spot on the inner lower part of their products should be told about this before the procedure so that they anticipate the flat spot will be there after in the final result.It is predictable and can be determined before the procedure.When this is not communicated before surgery patients often believe the surgery was not done correctly or that the surgeon did not put the fat in the right place.Unfortunately any more fat will probably not correct the problem and can create worsened cellulite.Cellulite is also caused by the same connective tissue bands that pull on the skin.Patients with excessive flat spots on their lower inner buttocks may in fact not be great candidates for a BBL because of this.With enough experience this becomes fairly consistent and a bit more obvious. Ideally this discussion should be had during an in person consultation before the procedure.I don’t perform gluteal implants but I do believe an intramuscular implant would probably do a better job of giving projection in this area.I’m quite certain they would be plastic surgeons are different for my opinion. My view on this simply comes from having performed this procedure over and over for the last 15 years.Certain things become consistent and clear. Patients with this type of flat spots don’t do well with fat transfer and those with cellulite often see cellulite getting worse with the BBL procedure.In your case your surgeon has extensive first-hand experience of a BBL. I suggest discussing your concerns with him. Since he knows firsthand how the primary procedure was performed he may have better information and may have had different experiences with outcomes as well.A “tuck” or skin excision of the lower inner part of your buttocks to round out the shape may also help with the appearance of flatness to some degree.Simply adding fat is probably not going to give much improvement.Best, Mats Hagstrom MD
The best thing to do at this point is to return to your original plastic surgeon to discuss your concerns. More than likely photos of your surgical site were taken before surgery and sometimes it can be helpful to review these to see how the area changed. Sometimes these contours existed before...
Hello, thank you for your question. It is difficult to tell what the lump might be. I would have to examine you to determine if there was a problem with healing.
Hello, thank you for your question. I would excise the dimple. This would leave you with a small scar but would fix the dimpling, a fat transfer would not fix the dimple. It is hard to tell if you are a candidate for a BBL and tummy tuck because of your pictures, an...
The take-home point is that traditional methods of transfer of fat into the gluteal muscles should be abandoned in favor of fat transfer though large cannula to areas directly visible beneath the skin to reduce the risk of fatal fat emboli and patient deaths. BBLs on thinner women are...
Dear aC3dss946ya, I understand your concern and it is quite normal to be concerned about the outcome following a BBL surgery. However, you are still in the very early stages of the healing process.Your will need to be patient at this moment and follow what your surgeon has instructed you to...
Hello, thank you for your question. I have utilized several techniques to improve this appearance, but it requires great precision to improve this. You need to find a board certified plastic surgeon who does a lot of revisions.
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