How Common is Buttock Implants

The caption names VASER high-definition liposuction of the upper and lower back, flanks, and lower lateral thighs, fat grafting to the lateral buttocks and hips, and buttocks implant augmentation. It does not assign an extrusion, the 1 in 5 rate of failed implant cases, 150 grams of protein a day, smoking, or the one extrusion in over 12 years to this 21-year-old.

How common is buttock implants next to a Brazilian buttock lift

How common is buttock implants is answered here by setting implant surgery next to a Brazilian buttock lift. Buttock implants are not as popular as a Brazilian buttock lift. One wording gives the reason as a high incidence of buttock implant extrusions. The body of the same page gives the reason as a high incidence of buttock implant complications. A later sentence names complication rates leading to extrusions. Those three wordings stay side by side.

National reports have reported a concerning rate of 1 in 5 failed implant cases. That rate has caused many patients to avoid buttocks augmentation with buttocks implants. Recent advances in buttock implant surgical protocols have allowed a significant decrease in extrusion rates. The same advances are also described as a significant decrease in complication rates leading to extrusions. Minimizing the risk of complications during butt implant cosmetic surgery is essential to make implants a viable surgical procedure when compared with the Brazilian butt lift.

How common are buttock implants is the other wording already on the page. Not as many buttocks implants are performed as buttock augmentation with fat transfer. When performed properly, buttock implant augmentation can effectively improve overall buttocks' shape and volume.

The viability comparison is specific. Minimizing complications is what makes buttock implant surgery viable when it is set next to a Brazilian buttock lift. The decrease credited to recent protocol advances is described as a decrease in extrusion rates. It is also described as a decrease in complication rates leading to extrusions. The extrusion wording and the complication wording both belong in the account.

Protein intake and smoking before buttock implant surgery

Complication rates with buttock implant augmentation can be minimized with proper preoperative planning, operative management, and postoperative precautions. Preoperatively, a candidate for butt implants is asked to optimize her nutrition. That instruction is 150 grams of protein per day so that blood protein levels are optimized. Optimizing those protein levels is described as a way to minimize swelling in the postoperative period. The swelling of concern is swelling that can lead to unnecessary pressures in the buttock region.

Another preoperative precaution is to avoid all smoking as early as possible. Smoking causes poor circulation in the skin. That poor circulation leads to tissue compromise and to breakdown of the incision line. This common complication following butt implants can result in implant extrusion. The smoking path and the protein path are both preoperative precautions.

Symmetric pockets, closure, and garments around the clock

Butt implant surgery is very complex and requires meticulous attention to detail. That attention is critical when dissecting the implant pocket in the butt cheeks. The pockets must be symmetric. A meticulous closure technique must be employed to minimize the tension in the buttock cheek. Operative management is those two steps: symmetric pocket dissection and a closure that limits tension.

Postoperatively, compression garments must be employed around the clock. Wearing compression garments has two major roles. First, a garment minimizes swelling, which may increase pressure development in the gluteal muscles and soft tissues. The glute is that muscle group. Second, the compression garment avoids unnecessary traction on the incision lines that are prone to separation. The garment schedule stated here is around the clock.

How the three precautions sit in order

Preoperative planning has two named parts. Nutrition comes first. A candidate for butt implants is asked to optimize her nutrition with 150 grams of protein per day so blood protein levels are optimized. The stated purpose of that protein intake is to minimize swelling after surgery that can lead to unnecessary pressures in the buttock region. Smoking comes next. All smoking is avoided as early as possible. Smoking causes poor circulation in the skin, and that poor circulation leads to tissue compromise and breakdown of the incision line. That incision breakdown is a common complication, and it can result in implant extrusion.

Operative management is the pocket and the closure. Dissection of the implant pocket in the butt cheeks has to be symmetric, and that symmetry depends on meticulous attention to detail. Closure is the second operative step. A meticulous closure minimizes tension in the buttock cheek. The surgery is very complex. These two steps are the operative detail named for it.

Postoperative precautions are the compression garments, worn around the clock. The swelling role and the incision role are separate. Swelling may increase pressure in the gluteal muscles and soft tissues, and the garment minimizes that swelling. Incision lines are prone to separation, and the garment avoids unnecessary traction on those lines. Protein intake, avoiding smoking, pocket symmetry, closure tension, and garments around the clock are the full precaution list on this page.

How common is buttock implants when fat is limited

Buttock implant surgeries are not as popular as Brazilian butt lifts. The reason given for that limit is that buttock implant surgeries should only be considered if there is not enough fat. Only if there is not enough fat to undergo buttock augmentation with the patient's own fat will implants be offered as a choice. Fat grafting in the caption is to the lateral buttocks and the hips. The lateral hip is that same side contour the caption names in the plural. The caption pairs that fat grafting with buttocks implant augmentation.

Suppose a reader is wondering how common buttock implants are. The page says to check the American Society of Plastic Surgeons website, where the number of surgeries performed each year is published. This page points to that site and does not print the yearly count. At our surgical center, we have only experienced one case of implant extrusion in over 12 years of performing buttocks implant augmentation. The national report of 1 in 5 failed implant cases and the center account of one extrusion in over 12 years both stay as written.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons describes liposuction, sometimes referred to as lipo by patients, as a surgical procedure that involves the removal of excess fat from specific areas of the body. That sentence matches the liposuction named in the caption, on the upper and lower back, the flanks, and the lower lateral thighs. It does not describe implant extrusion, the 1 in 5 rate, 150 grams of protein, smoking, garments around the clock, or this 21-year-old.