Butt Augmentation

Butt/buttock augmentation also known as gluteoplasty , is a surgical procedure that is conducted to enhance the shape of the buttocks, correct the deformities or improve its contours. It includes the gluteal implant, liposculpture, and body contouring.

The procedure is suggested for those who have small buttocks as compared to their body, flat or square buttocks, and those with loose or hanging buttocks.

Fat grafting is one of the most common procedures that is used to give proper shape to the buttocks, through the natural fatty tissue or through buttock implants.

It is done in general anesthesia and the patient can go home after being observed for a short while.

Besides this, after the surgery, the patients are required to sit on a pillow so that the buttocks don’t experience any form of pressure. After the third week from the time of the procedure, patients can sit properly. They are also advised to do some stretching exercises. Buttock augmentation is an effective surgery to reshape the buttocks and if patients follow all the instructions given by their doctors, then they can get the best results out of it.

Buttocks augmentation treatments

Gluteal implants

The augmentation of the buttocks is realized with a gluteal implant, which is emplaced under each glu beteus maximus muscle; the insertion of the buttock prosthesis is through a midline incision (5–8-cm-wide) over the tailbone (coccyx). Augmentation with a gluteal implant is the method most effective for enlarging the buttocks of the man or the woman whose body possesses few stores of excess adipose fat in the lower portion of the trunk, the buttocks, and thighs, the anatomic regions where the human body usually stores excess body fat. Post-operatively, because of the cutting (incising) into the flesh of the tailbone muscles, the full healing of the augmented tissues can be approximately 6–8 months, in the course of which the gluteal-muscle tissues relax, and the settled buttocks prostheses are integrated to the gluteal region. The implantation procedure can be performed upon a patient who is either sedated or anesthetized, either under general anesthesia or under local anesthesia. The usual operating-room time for a buttocks augmentation procedure is approximately 2 hours. The procedure can be managed either as an overnight in-patient treatment or as a hospital outpatient treatment. Given the nature of the surgical incisions to the gluteus maximus muscles, the therapeutic management of post-surgical pain (at the surgical-wound sites) and normal tissue-healing usually require a 4-6-week convalescence, after which the patient resumes his or her normal life activities.

Lipoinjection

The augmentation and contouring of the buttocks with autologous-fat transfer (lipo injection) therapy is realized with the excess adipose-fat tissue harvested from the abdomen, flanks, and thighs of the patient.  The gentle liposuction applied to harvest the autologous fat minimally disturbs the local tissues, especially the connective-tissue layer between the skin and the immediate subcutaneous muscle tissues. Then, the harvested fat is injected to the pertinent body area of the gluteal region, through a fine-gauge cannula inserted through a small incision, which produces a short and narrow scar. Lipoinjection contouring and augmentation with the patient’s own body fat avoids the possibility of tissue rejection and is physically less invasive than buttocks-implant surgery. Therefore, depending upon the health of the patient, the convalescence period allows him or her to resume daily, normal-life activities at 2-days post-operative, and the full spectrum of physical activity at 2-weeks post-operative. Furthermore, the liposuction harvesting of the patient’s excess body fat improves the aesthetic appearance of the body fat donor-sites. Nonetheless, physiologically, the human body’s normal, health-management chemistry does resorb (break down and eliminate) some of the injected adipose-fat tissue, and so might diminish the augmentation. According to the degree of a diminishment of the volume and contour caused by the fat-resorption, the patient might require additional sessions of fat-transfer therapy to achieve the desired size, shape, and contour of the buttocks.