Is there a way to help prepare your buttock skin for a BBL so that it may have more space to fit fat in it?

I would not worry about this as this will likely not be an issue unless you have a previous area of scar or deformity that restricts the fat to that area.  I perform about 500 BBLs each year, and this procedure is the most surgeon dependent plastic surgery procedure.  Much of the grafting result depends upon the techniques utilized and the postoperative care.  Kenneth Hughes, MD, ABPS Board Certified Plastic SurgeonLos Angeles, CA

Dear Mandax86,
Absolutely! Building your gluts is a great way to enhance your buttock region and I recommend to all of my BBL patients. It not only ads volume to the buttocks but lifts the buttocks in a more anatomic position.  Every plastic surgeon has his own preoperative protocol which he recommends to his patients. I would suggest you to discuss this with your plastic surgeon.
Daniel Barrett, MD
Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Thank you for your questions. I know that in breast fat grafting, tissue space expansion has been used pre-op with suction devices to expand the potential space for graft. The most common device used was called a BRAVA. I am not sure this device or technique could be extended to the buttocks and I am not aware of any data or studies out there to support it, but it certainly proved useful in breast fat grafting.Hope this helps!Dallas R. Buchanan, MD, FACSOwner & Board-Certified Plastic SurgeonVIVIFY plastic surgery