Buttock Fat Grafting

THE TYPICAL PATIENT

• Desire for a more youthful, enlarged, rounded, lifted and tighter buttock.
• Designed to improve features of flattening, small size, unevenness, sagging or deflation.
• Extremes of loose skin or no shape or no fat may make the operation more difficult.
• Also related to outer thigh and posterior thigh sagging which may also be improved.

CANDIDATES FOR SURGERY

• You must have some fat and muscle already present in your buttock to serve as a foundation for the grafted fat to be placed into and to grow into.
• You must have enough fat in different areas of your body to serve as the source for the graft.
• If you have some but not enough fat, you may need to gain weight prior to surgery.
• You should not have had liposuction previously in the areas we want to take fat graft source from.
• Microfat grafting is much more difficult if you have had previous buttock implants.

SUCCESS FACTORS FOR MICROFAT GRAFTING OF THE BUTTOCKS

• You will need enough source fat from other parts of your body for this to work.
• Your fat cells need to be healthy before and after they are removed from and grafted into your body.
• The fat cells transplanted will need to have a new blood supply grow into them to survive.
• You will need very good blood supply at the site of the transplanted cells.
• Be aware not all fat cells will survive but the ones that do should survive forever.
• About 25% of the fat harvested is available for fat grafting and about 80% of this survives.

THE PROCEDURE

• Anesthesia is a very light general and the procedure takes at least 3 hours.
• A minimum of at least two areas that can be liposuctioned as a source of fat are needed.
• The incisions are the same used for liposuction and are only _" in length.
• The procedure involves first careful and gentle liposuction, preparation of the fat, then micrografting the fat into the buttock.
• You will be turned side to side then face down for the surgery.
• No drains are used.
• Dressings and a light compression garment are used for several days.

This can be combined with other plastic surgical procedures.

THE RECOVERY

• You can go home after several hours or can stay overnight.
• You can shower on the third or fourth day after surgery after the garments are changed.
• There is only minimal pain that is mostly gone by the day 2-3, and easily controlled by medications.
• Swelling is mild to moderate and peaks 2-3 days then disappears rapidly over the next three weeks.
• Minimal or no bruising is the usual.
• Some grogginess is present which persists for about a week.
• You can resume many activities within the first week, and most by at least three weeks.
• The stitches are either totally dissolvable or the type to be removed at three days.
• Expect to be off of work for only three to seven days.

THE RESULT

• Beautiful, balanced and proportioned contour.
• Larger, tighter, rounder, raised buttock.
• More confident and comfortable in clothing, especially form fitting pants.
• Lasts the rest of your life and always looks better than if you didn’t do it.
• Natural and presentable appearance in the first week that just gets better over the next three to six months.

For before and after images of this procedure click here

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