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The Illegal Practice of Black Market Buttock Injections

On the surface, no one would say to themselves…please inject my body with some foreign substance (of which I don’t know what it is or even care) in an unsterile/unclean hotel room or in a house or aprtment by someone who has no medical training at all. That does not sound like a good idea Read More…

Fat vs. Implants for Buttock Augmentation

While implants offer a permanent buttock augmentation effect, they are associated with a much longer recovery period. One must be very selective in choosing patients for implants while one can be a lot more lax about who opts for fat grafting. If there is an equivocal choice between fat or implants for buttock augmentation, I Read More…

Preventing Buttock Implant Complications By Proper Size Selection

  Buttock augmentation is one of the most in demand body contouring procedures today. While ten years ago it was infrequently requested compared to breast augmentation for example, it has increased over ten-fold since then. Such an increase in buttock augmentation has been driven by many factors including the celebrity appeal. (Jennifer Lopex, the Kardahasians Read More…

Case Study: Intramuscular Buttock Implant Augmentation

Background: Buttock augmentation has surged in popularity over the past decade. Compared to just ten years ago, the number of buttock enhancement procedures in the U.S. has increased a staggering twenty-fold in number. This is due almost exclusively due to the fat injection technique. Injecting fat into the buttocks for enlargement, also known as the Read More…

Buttock Augmentation in Men

  Buttock augmentation has grown in popularity over the past decade from a scant few patients who received implants to large numbers of patients today that receive fat injections. Regardless of the augmentation technique, enhancement of the derriere has been almost exclusively the domain of women. Fashion trends, particularly amongst certain ethnicities, has made having Read More…

Contemporary Body Implant Augmentation Surgery

Muscular enhancement of certain body parts can be done through the use of synthetic implants. Everyone knows about breast implant augmentation although this is not a true muscular enhancement but a breast tissue enlargement. Historically the most recognized body implants were for the chest, buttocks and calfs. The number of such implants combined pale in Read More…

Evaluating the Intramuscular Technique for Buttock Implant Augmentation

Synthetic implants are the original method of buttock augmentation. While supplanted in numbers by the Brazilian Butt Lift (fat injections), buttock implants are still a good option for the properly selected patient. Implants offer assured permanent buttock augmentation and are the only option for those patients who have inadequate fat stores for liposuction harvest. Buttock Read More…

Postoperative Instructions: Buttock Implants

Buttock implants is an established method of permanently increasing the size of one’s buttocks. Implants are placed either into the gluteal muscles or on top of the gluteal muscle through an intergluteal incision. It is a buttock augmentation procedure that takes more recovery than the more commonly performed buttock augmentation method. Here is a list Read More…

Consent for Plastic Surgery: Buttock Implants

  Every plastic surgery procedure has numerous issues that every patient who is undergoing a procedure should know. These explanations are always on a consent form that you should read in detail before surgery. This consent form, while many perceive as strictly a legal protection for the doctor, is actually more intended to improve the Read More…

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