Do Patients Have to Wax Their Genitals Prior to a Brazilian Butt Lift?

It is known that shaving within 24 hours can increase your risk of infection.  It is thought that this is due to the razor blade scraping off the outer layer of skin cells and thus losing some of your skin's barrier to infection.  I have never seen any studies indicating that waxing would cause a similar problem.  I would probably not recommend doing it within 48 hours of surgery, but one of the nice things about waxing is that you are usually hair free for a couple of weeks afterwards and can therefore do it earlier.    Otherwise I usually recommend shaving more than 24 hours in advance or we will use the electric clipper the morning of surgery.    

It has been repeatedly shown that shaving patients the night before surgery results in HIGHER infection rates. Essentially, bacteria which live in the hair follicles are brought up. As such, we may CLIP not shave patients on the OR table. If you want to shave a few days before and shower with surgical soap, that should take care of this concern.

I do NOT demand that my patients wax this area prior to a Brazilian Butt Lift.

Dr. Peter A Aldea

Dear Belgium,

You are probably correct in your concerns about waxing before Brazilian Butt Lift surgery.  It has been determined and accepted by most surgeons nowadays that hair removal by shaving may lead to increased infection rates.  It would stand to reason that waxing might have a similar effect.  Good luck!

The Brazilian Buttcok lifting procedure is becoming ever more popular. You do not need waxing of the genital area prior ot surgery. In fact it could be deleterious because of the increased incidence of infectionas shown in the literature for immediate shaving of the perioperative area. Waxing would presumably have the same effect. I instruct my patients  not to shave or wax the genital area  immediately prior to surgery. See video as shown on TV