BUTTOCK AUGMENTATION
(Enhancing the size and shape of the buttocks)What makes a good candidate.
Simply put, any male or female who feels or perceives their buttock size, shape, &/or proportions are not adequate. This could be due to genetic or developmental factors, fluctuations in weight (especially weight loss), changes from pregnancy or aging, or trauma. Unfortunately many patients have tried but cannot achieve the buttock they want with good old fashioned diet and exercise.
Buttock Augmentation can be accomplished in two ways.
1) “Autologous” Fat Grafting in which “your own fat” is harvested, by way of liposuction, from areas of excess (donor fat) and then re-injected (grafted) into the buttocks. Although this method can work for some patients, most are not good candidates. Because much of the fat dissolves over the first year after surgery most potential patients do not have enough donor fat to produce a significant long lasting result. Additionally, fat grafting is very labor intensive and therefore relatively expensive.
2) Buttock Implants (a.k.a. gluteal implants) utilize very soft semi-solid silicone implants, the kind that cannot rupture and leak, placed under or within the buttock muscles through an approximately 2.5 inch mid-line incision overlying the tailbone. Typically the resultant scar is well concealed between the upper buttock cheeks. The advantages over fat grafting is that implants provide a reliable, reproducible, and relatively predictable permanent result for about only two-thirds of the cost.
In either case Buttock Augmentation is usually done on an outpatient basis under general anaesthesia with local patients allowed to go home and visiting patients more frequently sent to a recovery center for a night or two.
Much unlike Breast Augmentation with implants, Buttock Augmentation with implants is performed by a limited number of skilled plastic surgeons. As of the year 2008, Dr. Stanton has performed this operation for over seven years on hundreds of patients. In fact, Buttock Augmentation is one of the primary operations he performs nowadays on both domestic and international patients.