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.
Brazilian Butt Lift is mainly performed to increase the volume of the butt and to give a symmetrical, even, shape to the butt.
Brazilian Butt Lift is one of the most accessible Plastic surgeries; it simply has a few conditions that needs to be fulfilled:
Patients should:
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.
The results of the surgery can be observed immediately after surgery and after the surgery, patients should take care to:
Patients might experience swelling and bruising and it might take several weeks to months for swelling and bruising to disappear.
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: