Buttock Augmentation Cost

Buttock augmentation cost is set by the time the operation takes, once the scope of the procedure is defined. The main fork is fat transfer alone, which this page terms the Brazilian butt Lift, or that transfer plus buttock silicone implants. The fee follows how long the surgery takes. The injection of fat into the buttock is not what is billed. The time required to harvest the fat is.

Brazilian buttock augmentation cost is most affected by the 1 to 4 hours required to liposuction the fat, and less by the 10 minutes required to inject that fat. A later line gives the ordinary injection a different clock: about one hour for an average transfer of 600 to 800cc in each buttock cheek, brought down to 10 minutes when a closed-loop system is used. The 10 minute figure and the one hour figure both stay.

What is billed is the harvest. What is not billed is the act of putting fat into the buttock. That split is why a shorter injection does not move the fee the way a longer harvest does. The harvest range stays 1 to 4 hours whether the injection is quoted at 10 minutes or at about one hour. Those clocks are not added into one total. A generous body and a prior liposuction are described as increases in liposuction time. They are not given as a new range pasted on top of 1 to 4 hours.

The 1 to 4 hour range follows how many areas are liposuctioned. One list names the arms, the neck, the lateral chest, the abdomen, the flanks, the pubic region, the upper back, the middle back, the lower back, the lateral thighs, and the medial thighs. A second list repeats the flanks and adds the knees. Knees appear only on the second list. Both lists stay, including the repeated flanks.

Time also rises when the body size is generous and when there has already been liposuction. Prior liposuction is said to leave scar tissue that is harder to remove, and fat cells that are less viable than cells taken from an area that has not been liposuctioned.

At the consultation used to build the fee, the patient points out areas that were liposuctioned before and areas that were not, so the transferred cells can be the more viable ones. Virgin fat is harvested first and is the fat used preferentially. An area that was liposuctioned before is treated only when a revision of the body contour is required.

Harvest order is part of the fee conversation because viability is part of what the time is buying. Untreated fat is taken first and is the fat preferred for transfer. Fat from a scarred, previously treated area is the less viable fat, and it is harder to remove. That area is opened only when the contour itself needs revision. The consultation is where treated and untreated areas are marked, so the plan can prefer virgin fat and can leave a previously treated area alone unless revision is the goal. No price per area is stated. The page assigns time.

Each named area is a reason the harvest can move inside the 1 to 4 hour range. Arms, neck, and lateral chest are on both lists, as are the abdomen, the pubic region, the upper back, the middle back, the lower back, the lateral thighs, and the medial thighs. Flanks are on both lists and are written twice on the second list. Knees are only on the second list. Adding an area is how the hour count is said to grow. No area is ranked from longest to shortest, and no minute count is given for any single area.

Buttock implants can be added when the goal is maximum central buttock projection. That implant operation is in addition to the fat transfer, not a substitute for it, and it adds approximately 2 hours. Needing both modalities is what the page says changes the Brazilian butt lift cost sharply.

The implant price is not affected by the volume chosen. Buttock implants can still cost much more than breast implants because they are called specialty items. No dollar amount is stated for either implant, for the liposuction time, or for the 2 extra hours.

The extra 2 hours for an implant sit beside the 1 to 4 hour harvest. They are not folded into that harvest range, and no summed operative time is published. Choosing a larger or smaller implant does not change the implant price. An implant can still cost more than a breast implant because it is called a specialty item. Fat alone, fat plus an implant, and an implant price that ignores volume are three separate facts.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons says buttock augmentation is used to improve the contour, size and/or shape of the buttocks. This is done through the use of buttock implants, fat grafting or sometimes a combination of the two. This technique is sometimes referred to as a Brazilian butt lift. Fat transfer alone, silicone buttock implants, and the use of both match those sentences. The 1 to 4 hour harvest, the 10 minute and one hour injection clocks, the 600 to 800cc volume, the closed-loop system, the donor-area lists, the viability difference after prior liposuction, the extra 2 hours, the claim that implant price ignores volume, and this 38-year-old are not part of that description.