Hip Dip Calculator

How to Use the Hip Dip Calculator

The Hip Dip Calculator was made so you and your surgeon can point at the same hip dip filling before any fat is moved. Choose the posterior image closest to your hip now, then the posterior image you want after surgery. Create the summary, screenshot it, and bring that image to your consultation.

The images are posterior views. The row is where the maximum hip width sits: the upper hip, the upper-middle hip, the middle hip, the middle-lower hip, or the lower hip. Patients who want the widest filling choose the bottom row, which fills all of those areas at once. On the reference chart those levels are labeled the upper pole, the upper-middle pole, the medial pole, the lower-middle pole, and the lower pole, and the bottom row combines all five.

The column is the degree of filling. It is the ratio of the waist to the maximum hip width, from 0.80 in the first column to 0.50 in the last. A ratio of 0.50 is the most generously filled hip. After surgery the waist is narrowed to its maximum capacity, and that narrowed waist is already drawn into these images.

These images show the final outcome. They show the hip after the flanks, or love handles, and the lateral thighs, or saddlebags, have been reduced. That reduction follows the starting image and the desired image you choose. A current love handle should not be read as a wider column on the chart.

What a Hip Dip Is

A hip dip is a trochanteric depression, and it is a normal anatomical variant. It is common in athletes with pronounced muscular definition. It also appears when aging and weight gain add fullness at the flanks and the lateral thighs. The depression sits below the greater trochanter, extends forward into the anterolateral thigh and backward into the lateral buttock, and is about the size of a palm.

The contour is formed by the greater trochanter and by the insertions of several thigh and buttock muscles, most notably gluteus maximus, and also gluteus medius, vastus lateralis, and quadratus femoris.

Why the Chart Was Made

Many patients who want gluteal enhancement also want lateral buttock and hip fullness. The request can be a subtle flattening of the depression, or maximal lateral projection that adds a more exaggerated curve. Without a shared chart, that conversation stays vague, and the result can miss the request.

The chart is that shared record. Use it with the Brazilian Butt Lift Calculator when the plan includes the buttock as well as the hip. Fat grafting supplies the fill. The amount of fat available from liposuction decides whether the marked column can be met. The chart names the request. The body still has to supply the fat.

How to Read One Cell

A mark is one cell. The column is the waist-to-hip ratio. The row is where that width is fullest. A cell in the last column and the lower-hip row is a generously filled hip whose fullest point sits low. The same last column on the upper-hip row is still a generously filled hip, and the fullest point sits high. The bottom row, codes F1 through F7, fills the upper hip, the upper-middle hip, the middle hip, the middle-lower hip, and the lower hip together.