Is It Possible to Get Custom Silicone Hip Implants for a Hourglass Figure?

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Hi, I am 5`6 and i weight about 125 pounds. I am very slim. I have a small waist, & I want to get buttock implants and i want wider hips. I want to achieve a hourglass figure. I do not have enough fat for fat transfer, so i wanted to know what i can do to accomplish this. Can i get injected, or can i get custom made silicone implants on my hips, from my waist to my thigh. Please help, i have been researching for months but i have not yet found any information. Thank you so much in advance.

Ryan A. Stanton, MD · Answer

Allow me to share with you some information that you may not hear elsewhere.   There are only two proven safe and relatively effective methods for Buttock Augmentation and Hip Augmentation: 1) Autologous Fat Transfer (using your own fat, transferring from one area of the body to the other) and 2) Buttock/Hip Implants (semi-solid silicone rubber implants that cannot rupture &/or leak).  Both are very good options so what it comes down to, like any surgery, is proper patient selection.  Indeed because at least 50+ % of the fat transferred will melt away within a year, most patients are not good candidates because they lack an adequate amount of fat to harvest.  Although using your own fat is relatively safe, the one serious complication that can rarely (< 1%) happen is "fat embolism" in which some of the fat gets into the blood stream and travels up into the lungs, heart, and/or brain causing serious problems. This complication is more likely to happen with the larger amount of fat being transferred.  This can also happen when using fillers like PMMA and hyaluronic acids. Also fillers, when injected in large quantities, have a relatively high tendency to migrate away from the original area they were placed and tend to stimulate a lot of inflamation and subsequent scar tissue/hardening.

	 

	Thus buttock/hip implants become a very good, safe, and long term reliable option for most patients seeking buttock augmentation (at least in my practice).  I prefer to insert the buttock implants through a single 2 ½ inch long incision over the tailbone (concealed within the crevice between the buttock cheeks) and the hip implants through a ~ 1 inch incision just below the beltline above the hip region.  The buttock implant should always be placed under or within the gluteus maximus muscle.  In this position, the implant is less palpable, less visible, and does not sag or shift/migrate over time unlike implants placed on top of the muscle.  Therefore it is extremely important to seek consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon who specializes in this procedure.  And in this case too, at least in my surgical practice, the infection rate is minimized to ~5%.  Hope this helps…RAS

Douglas M. Senderoff, MD, FACS · Answer

YES I am currently doing MANY hip implants with much success and very little complications.  Its an excellent compliment to the buttock augmentation and they are often done together.  Be sure to choose a board certified plastic surgeon who specializes in this procedure and has high success rate with this procedure.  If you choose your surgeon wisely you will have a wonderful, long lasting result.

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