Can someone with a kidney transplant be considered for BBL surgery?

Plastic surgeons may differ in their opinion on the appropriateness or their level of comfort doing cosmetic surgery on someone with previous organ transplantation on immunosuppressive drugs.

The true increased risk because of immunosuppressive drugs or compromise of your transplanted organs is in reality quite low but obviously the potential complication could be devastating or potentially life-threatening.

In order to justify a healthy risk benefit ratio it would behoove you to get an accurate assessment if this procedure is going to have a big impact.

Patients who are ideal candidates should expect remarkable outcomes while those were not good candidates for the procedure will only have a moderate or subpar improvement.

The surgeon skill has a big impact but not as much as the individual candidacy of each patient.

It would also be in your advantage to be highly selective on who you choose to do the procedure since having multiple procedures or needing revisions would be undesirable in your case. More so than most people.

The following are some general recommendations for those seeking cosmetic surgery.


I recommend patients avoid traveling long distances for elective surgical procedures. There are of course instances where there is a lack of local talent and traveling to some degree is inevitable. If traveling for the procedure patients should be ready to travel to have the consultation, post operative appointments and follow up should there be issues or complications.
Patients sometimes do not appreciate the importance of in person consultations, that complications do happen or the number of people who have issues with their results or need revisions.

Schedule multiple consultations with different providers in your area who seem to have a good reputation for the procedure you’re interested in. Starting with at least five consultations seems like a reasonable number to me.

Whenever possible schedule in person consultations.
During in person consultations ask each plastic surgeon to show all of their before and after pictures for the procedure you’re interested in.

The goal is not to see the best results of their career but to get an idea of what average results look like and get some type of confirmation of how many of these procedures that provider has performed.

Ask to see results that were not as good as the doctor would’ve hoped for and talk about the differences in outcomes.

Honest and experienced providers should have no problems presenting this type of information.

A highly experienced plastic surgeon should have hundreds of before and after pictures for the procedure you’re interested in. At a minimum at least 20+.

Read all the reviews on various physician review websites paying close attention and avoiding providers with any significant number of justified negative reviews. Providers with an abundance of reviews often have aggressive marketing campaigns.

The plastic surgeons I respect most all have the single variable of not having justified negative reviews on their online profiles.
In my opinion justified negative reviews are far more telling than an abundance of positive reviews.

Avoid scheduling for surgery or making a deposit on the day of the consultation. Give yourself some time to think about the decision and make sure you finished all scheduled consultations before committing to having surgery that will permanently and irreversibly change your body.

When in doubt slow down and schedule more consultations.

Choosing the right plastic surgeon is the single most important variable to having a positive experience.

Don’t go chasing after technology or names of certain equipment. Instead focus all your efforts on finding the most experienced and talented board-certified plastic surgeon.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD