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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Hip Dip Implants

Background: The hip area is prone to contour indentations particularly in lean or thinner patients. While some patients may want larger hips over the flat or convex hips that they have, others want to treat a specific hip contour deformity. Located between the bony iliac crest and the prominence of the greater trochanter of the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Hip Implants for Hip Dips

Background: Hip augmentation poses challenges regardless of whether done by injection methods or an implant. Injectable fillers are the non-surgical approach but in the U.S. the lack of permanent FDA-approved fillers make this a long-term costly treatment option. Fat injections are an autologous option and their placement is often done at the time of BBL Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Hip Implant Replacements for Folded Malpositioned Hip Implants

Background: Hip augmentation has become a more commonly requested procedure today undoubtably due to the rise on BBL buttock augmentation procedures. Buttock augmentation often makes the hip areas look deficient by proximity and comparison. But unlike buttock augmentation, either by fat injections or implants, achieving satisfactory hip augmentation is not so easy. While the ideal Read More…

Hip Implant Body Contouring Concepts – Implant Design and Fabrication

The use of breast and buttock implants are well established for aesthetic body augmentations and have a high degree of clinical success. Their success rate is largely dependent on the depth of the tissue pocket in which the implant is placed and the shape of the implant. An under the muscle (thick well vascularized tissue Read More…

Technical Strategies – Trochanteric Hip Augmentation by Pedicled Fat Flap from a Tummy Tuck

Hip augmentation remains a challenging body contouring procedure. An autologous approach with fat injections are the most logical approach but the survival of fat in the hip area is generally poor particularly if a deep trochanteric depression exists. Hip implants offer assured volume retention but have a significant complication rate due to the lack of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Dermal-Fat Grafting for Hip Augmentation in Tummy Tuck Surgery

Background: Hip contouring historically was a reductive procedure for which liposuction was the definitive treatment. While that aesthetic body contouring need still exists today the reverse, hip augmentation, has become a commonly requested procedure. Driven by the increasing demand for buttock augmentation as well as male to female gender affirming surgeries the role of hip Read More…

Design and Surgical Placement Concepts in Custom Hip Implants

The breast and buttock regions dominate the locations for aesthetic implant augmentation on the body based on largely female requests. The hip area has become an increasingly popular request for implant augmentation due to its proximity to the buttocks and the ability to help provide some visible more feminine curves below the waistline. But the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Creating Feminine Curves Through Rib Removal Waistline Reduction and Fat Injection Hip Augmentation

Background: Body contouring in the transgender male to female patient is fundamentally about creating curves which is associated with a more feminine appearance. There are a variety of procedures to do so including breast augmentation, waistline reduction and hip/buttock augmentation. Not every patient needs or wants all three areas treated although the best results comes Read More…

Technical Strategies – Screw Fixation of Iliac Crest Implants

Aesthetic augmentation of the hips is largely soft tissue-based. The aesthetic hip area is traditionally perceived as variable locations below the iliac crest bone which at some point becomes the lateral thigh. The iliac crest serves as the superior boundary for hip implants and is often where the location is for their placement incisions. While Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Modified Custom Hip Implant Replacements for Non-Hip Implants

Background: Aesthetic augmentation of the hips is far more challenging that other body areas for two reasons. First the common use of injection fat grafting, unlike that of the buttocks, has far less predictable results. Fat survives more poorly in the hips than the buttocks for unknown reasons. Second, there are no standard hip implants Read More…