Can you sit in inner tube after a BBL?

Additional photos at a better angle will be necessary to evaluate you.Kenneth Hughes, MD, Board Certified Plastic SurgeonLos Angeles, CA

Great question!  The first few weeks, the fat cells survive by diffusion of nutrients - this is the crucial period where about 25% of the fat cells do not survive.  Around 1 month is when the new blood supply has formed to the new fat cells and the volume has normalized.Best of luck and hope thi...

Dear LaceandLove,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.  Daniel Barrett, MD, MHA, MS  Certified, American Board of Plastic S...

Dear 12312345123,I instruct my patients not to sit for 2 solid weeks. We provide them a specialized pillow that our patients can sit on during that time. They can sleep on their stomachs or sides. Fat viability depends a lot of surgeon technique. The fat has to be placed back into the buttocks ...

   I use gravity sedimentation to separate the fat as it causes minimal disruption of fat cells.Kenneth Hughes, MD

Medical leave laws are complicated.  Those in MI are no doubt different from those in CA.  Patients who have asked for written verification stating they need to take time to recuperate from surgery ask me to indicate the expected duration of leave (in case they have to extend it later).  The ty...