Brazilian Butt Lift

A Brazilian Butt Lift is a form of gluteoplasty, or buttock augmentation, the plastic surgery and liposuction procedures used to correct congenital, traumatic and acquired defects of the buttocks and to aesthetically enhance the contour of the gluteal region, whether by augmentation or reduction. Buttock augmentation can be achieved in several ways: by surgically placing a gluteal implant, or buttock prosthesis; by liposculpture, which combines fat transfer with liposuction; and by body contouring that may also use injectable fillers such as Sculptra. In the fat-transfer approach that characterises the Brazilian Butt Lift, the patient's own fat is harvested and re-injected to reshape and enhance the buttocks. The outcome depends on the specific defect or deformity being addressed; depressed scars and deep morphological defects are difficult to correct because of the curvature of the buttocks as a single anatomical unit and the scar-contracting nature of the surrounding tissues. Where filler is injected to correct a defect, the correction may be impermanent, but it usually still resolves the functional and aesthetic concern the patient wishes to address. Because the buttocks are treated as one anatomical unit, the surgeon examines and carefully sutures and tapes each incision so that the gluteal tissues heal together without complications.

After surgery the patient is advised to avoid exercise and strenuous physical activity until about three weeks post-operatively, and to wear a compression garment that holds the corrected tissues in place and contains swelling so the gluteal region heals as a single unit. At roughly one month, marked aesthetic improvement is usually visible, along with the resolution of the initial post-operative weight gain caused by the body retaining anaesthetic and tumescent fluids. For liposculpture, the final corrected contour usually takes about six months, and occasionally up to one year; where gluteal implants are used, the final contour is likewise generally seen at six months to one year, depending on the patient's tissue-healing capacity.