Brazilian Butt Lift
What is Brazilian Butt Lift surgery?
A Brazilian Butt Lift, often abbreviated to BBL, is a Body Aesthetic Surgery that is a variety of Butt Lift that aims to augment the butt using using fat grafting. Brazilian Butt Lift isn’t a traditional “lift” procedure like a Face Lift or Breast Lift despite its name. Fat Grafting involves taking the excess fat from other parts of the body, purifying it, and then injecting it into another part of the body, in this case the butt, therefore increasing the volume and fullness of the injected area. Therefore, Brazilian Butt Lift adds volume to and improves the shape of the butt.
Why is Brazilian Butt Lift performed?
Brazilian Butt Lift is mainly performed to increase the volume of the butt and to give a symmetrical, even, shape to the butt.
What are the conditions for Brazilian Butt Lift surgery?
Brazilian Butt Lift is one of the most accessible Plastic surgeries; it simply has a few conditions that needs to be fulfilled:
- The patient should be eligible to undergo general anesthesia.
- Patient’s BMI should be around 30 and there should be enough fat tissue to remove from the body.
- Patients should be older than 18 as their body should be developed.
What Are The Things To Be Considered Before Brazilian Butt Lift?
Patients should:
- Be at the hospital a day before their surgery for the pre operative tests to be performed.
- Stop smoking and consuming alcohol at least 2 weeks before the surgery to alleviate the risk of a blood clot.
- Avoid medication containing aspirin or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others) for two weeks before and after surgery. These medications may increase the risk of internal bleeding. Patients should confirm each medication or supplement they wish to take with their Patient Coordinator.
- Stop taking Multivitamin supplements 7 days prior to the surgery, and if it contains vitamin K should not be used for 30 days following the surgery.
- Stop taking oral contraceptives 30 days before the surgery.
How is the Brazilian Butt Lift performed?
General Anesthesia is administered and then the surgeon makes small incisions in the area where the fat will be taken from. The fat cells are extracted from the donor area using a cannula and a syringe.
If needed, the extracted fat will be processed using a centrifuge or another filtration technique to isolate the fat cells. The fat cells are then transferred to smaller cannulas and prepared to be injected into the buttocks.
The Plastic Surgeon will inject the transferred fat multiple times until the desired results are achieved. Sometimes the newly grafted fat may be massaged into the designated area to create full, natural contours. Finally, a bandage is placed over the grafted area.
It may be necessary to undergo multiple fat grafting sessions to achieve the desired results since the body will absorb some of the injected fat. On average, patients retain between 60% - 80% of the transferred fat.
What are The Things To Be Considered After Brazilian Butt Lift?
The results of the surgery can be observed immediately after surgery and after the surgery, patients should take care to:
- Sleep face down for at least a month.
- Use the special garment that was provided after surgery and a pillow while sitting.
- Patients should avoid strenuous physical activities and intense exercises such as aerobics and jogging up to 6 weeks following surgery.
Patients might experience swelling and bruising and it might take several weeks to months for swelling and bruising to disappear.
What Are The Risks of Brazilian Butt Lift?
Complications from a Brazilian Butt Lift are very infrequent, but like any surgery, there are risks associated with Brazilian Butt Lift. are associated risks with any surgical procedure, even those that are minimally invasive. Potential risks associated with a Brazilian Butt Lift surgery may include:
- Changes in skin sensation
- Infection
- Swelling
- Hematoma
- Scarring
- Asymmetry
- Pour wound healing
- Adverse reaction to anesthesia