Butt Augmentation

Shapely buttocks have always been a very important feature in determining the perfect vital statistics of the female figure. The buttocks tend to droop and sag due to normal ageing process or there might be a change in their shape owing to an accident. Whatever the reason might be, there are surgical procedures to enhance the buttocks to give them the perfect desired shape. With celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce going under the knife to get the perfect posterior, many women choose to follow in their footsteps to make their derrieres curvier and more rounded. Butt augmentation, known as Gluteal shaping in medical terms, involves taking out the flesh from fleshier parts of the body and replanting it on the buttocks to give them a fuller look. This technique is known as ‘fat grafting’.

Before you decide on having a butt augmentation, it is important for you to know whether you are suited for this surgery or not. For starters, you need to be in good mental and physical health and your weight should be such that you fall between 8 to 12 dress sizes. Somebody who has a size of two to four may not have enough fat in the body to spare, and hence is not an ideal candidate for butt augmentation.

The procedure is started by injecting large amounts of anesthetic agents and intravenous fluids into that area of the body which has a lot of fat. This is done to perform liposuction to extract fat from the body. The administering of intravenous fluids makes collection of fat easier and also prevents swelling.

The surgeon generally performs liposuction on the love handles, upper and outer sides of the buttocks and the outer thighs so as to make the rear look younger and curvier.

After the fat cells have been separated from blood and other internal fluids, a large syringe is used to inject it into the peak of the buttocks. This is done by laying down strings of fat in between the layers of the muscles of the buttocks.

The complete procedure can be performed under a local anesthesia and on outpatient basis. However the patients who smoke are told to stop smoking at least 4 weeks prior to the surgery.

Since butt augmentation is a part of the corrective cosmetic procedure, it is provided by most hospitals that have a cosmetic surgery unit in India. The most popular hospitals in India that have been acknowledged worldwide for their best cosmetic surgeries including butt augmentation are Apollo, the Cosmetic surgery Institute etc. Affordable prices, state of the art hospitals and a dedicated team of surgeons, make India the best choice for cosmetic surgeries worldwide.

Although it’s a relatively simple and complication free surgery, yet there might be some amount of risk in it. There are a very small number of cases which face complication of infection, changes in skin sensation, dimpling, lumpiness, numbing of surrounding areas, hypo or hyper pigmentation, sagging skin in the area of liposuction or nerve injury.

In most cases, results are extremely satisfying after the healing process has completed. No pre-testing is required as the fat that is being added is from the body itself and hence the risk of rejection is non-existent. However, the prospective patient should understand that this is a corrective surgery and should not have unrealistic expectations of attaining perfection through it.