Is my BBL safe if my doctor has 0 deaths ,11 years of experience and only puts the fat above the muscle?

Hi, bblchick0007! Thank you for your question.
Fat injection into the muscle is abandoned throughout the world by majority of the BBL surgeons. We can achieve the same results without taking the deadly risk of fat embolism. Fat transfer being done in the right level & depth is extremely important. Being too deep is risky for muscle entrance. Being too superficial won't give the results we desire. So the fat must be given to the deep fascia which is between the muscle and fascia. I can best detect my location with a real-time ultrasound I use during my surgery. Having the surgery in a well-equipped hospital facility with ICU included is also important.

The great majority of plastic surgeons around the world have not had any fatalities and will not have a fatality during their career.

Fatalities do occasionally happen and any plastic surgeon who has a patient die as a complication of surgery would be left devastated by this.

Safety is first and foremost our number one priority.

The fact that your surgeon has not had any fatalities does not change your individual risk for the procedure.

There are always risks with surgical procedures and these include fatal outcomes though that complication is fairly rare.

We make decisions on a daily basis that involve risk and benefit ratios.

Driving a car on a regular basis has approximately one in 10,000 risk a fatality per year.

At one point the BBL was considered the most dangerous cosmetic procedure with a fatality of one and 3000.

That would be the equivalent risk of driving an automobile on a regular basis for three years.

I like to use these analogies for those who have highly emotional ways of thinking about decisions to have surgery.

We don’t know what the current fatality rate is with the BBL with surgeons using recommended safety protocols such as grafting with a blunt 5 mm blunt cannula and not grafting into that gluteus muscle.

Life is full of decisions that have consequences with different variables.

For those who are highly risk-averse cosmetic surgery may not be appropriate.

If you have concerns about your well-being and risks of the procedure I suggest you consult your plastic surgeon and discuss your concerns with him or her.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD