Can you screw on hip bones to make your hips wider?

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Can you attach bone to your hips to widen the appearance? Either cadaver bone or some artificial material? Rather than implants just under the muscles? Fat transfer isn't an option.

Ryan A. Stanton, MD · Answer

Allow me to answer your question as best i can without any photos. However, please keep in mind that an in-person consultation with physical exam is first necessary before any legitimate evaluation or final surgical recommendations are made.

In general, cosmetic hip implants are the most reliable, predictable, and permanent option for filling in the hip dips and creating more of that feminine hourglass figure, whether slim or not.  Typically hip implants are best custom designed and created for each individual patient’s anatomy. Because an extremely few number of board-certified plastic surgeons perform this procedure, make sure you seek consultation with a reputable and experienced cosmetic hip implant specialist.  You may have to travel a long distance from home to find this particular surgeon.  On the other hand, fat transfer to the hip area tends to survive quite poorly in most patients and thus produces only short term results (often less than 10-12 months). Using “cadaver bone or (another) artificial material” to attach to your hip bones is not yet an established or accepted surgical technique.  Glad to help.

Daniel Barrett, MD · Answer

Dear ImagineExtraordinary,
no, you can't use bone graft in order to get wider hips. At the moment, the best options are fat transfer and implants. 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, MD
Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Mats Hagstrom, MD (license on probation) · Answer

Bone grafts are not a good idea for the type of volume needed for Aesthetic hip augmentation.  Which bone in your body would you like to sacrifice?

Cadaver bone is not live tissue but serves as a bone matrix the tissue can grow into.

Cadaver bone while it could be used typically comes in fairly small pieces and is extremely expensive.

Getting your dying uncle to contribute a chunk of his is not reasonable.

If this was a viable option we would be doing it.

There are thousands of plastic surgeons working daily to figure out how to do things best. Once some thing seems to work very well it generally catches on and becomes the standard of care.

Fat transfer is currently the most popular and would probably be considered standard of care for those who are candidates and implants using solid silicone is a strong second contender.

Far better than bringing out the power saw and chopping up your body so you can get better curves.

Probably better to leave medical innovation to those who have devoted much of their life to studying and practicing medicine.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD

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