Brazilian Butt Lift

The surgeons at Cosmetic Surgery Institute approach each Brazilian butt lift with a surgical plan that combines your specific cosmetic goals with the technical skill and aesthetic vision they have refined through training and experience. Our surgeons begin by physically assessing your skin and fatty tissues to determine the best areas of the body to perform surgical fat removal for the butt augmentation.

If you want to improve the contours and appearance of your buttocks, a Brazilian butt lift may be ideal for you. During your consultation, our team will work with you to decide whether a Brazilian butt lift or another procedure or a combination of treatments will be best. Ideal candidates for a Brazilian butt lift include patients who are in good general physical health without certain chronic health conditions, who maintain realistic expectations, who feel that their butt is too small, who dislike the roundness or overall shape of their butt, or who feel that their butt is asymmetrical.

Brazilian butt lifts aren’t recommended for patients who don’t have an adequate amount of excess body fat to be used for fat grafting.

Every Brazilian butt lift begins with surgical fat removal, which—depending on the extent of the surgery—may be performed with the patient under general anesthesia or using a local anesthetic with sedation. Our surgeons mark the areas targeted for fat removal, where they then make small incisions. They may take fat cells from the abdomen, thighs, hips, or back, but it’s also common for them to simply move fat from one area of the buttocks to another to create a rounder and more lifted shape.

For the surgical fat removal itself, they inject a sterile solution mixed with an anesthetic to help swell the fatty tissue, reduce bleeding, and limit any discomfort. Our surgeons then insert a cannula to gently break the fat cells free from their surrounding tissue and suction them away. Great care must be taken to preserve the integrity of the fat cells. Cells must remain alive in order to work as a natural filler in a Brazilian butt lift.

The next step in a Brazilian butt lift is purifying this living fat to remove blood cells and other tissue before it is injected at different sites around the buttocks. Because a percentage of the fat cells don’t survive the transfer process and are naturally expelled from the body, the initial results often appear larger than expected. The excess volume is intentionally done to compensate for the predicted loss of volume over time.

During the next several weeks and months, you’ll begin to see the desired final results emerge.

Patients will experience some bruising and swelling in the areas where fat cells have been extracted. Prescribed or over-the-counter pain medications can help to provide relief for any discomfort. Special dressings, bandages, and garments will be applied to your incisions after a Brazilian butt lift. It’s recommended that you continue to wear these support garments throughout the healing phase, following the guidelines of our surgeons.

We will also provide advice about post-surgical care for surgical sites, which medications can be used to promote healing, any particular concerns you’ll need to look for at the surgical site or pertaining to your overall health, caring for drains, and when you’ll need to follow up with our surgeons.

Initial recovery time can last anywhere from three to four weeks on average, though it varies depending on the individual. To get the best possible shape from a Brazilian butt lift, you’ll need to adhere to our surgeons’ post-operative guidelines as closely as you can.

It’s highly important for Brazilian butt lift patients to avoid sitting or sleeping directly on the buttocks for at least eight weeks so that they don’t place pressure on the area. It’s recommended that you sleep on your side or stomach and use a donut pillow or inflatable pillow placed behind your legs if you have to sit. Intense or high-impact exercise will need to be avoided – including bouncing, running, or jogging – to allow the fat cells to have time to stabilize. When the surgeon gives you the approval to do so, you can resume light walking for exercise and other activities.