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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Transfemale Pelvic Plasty (Skeletal-Based Hip Augmentation)

Background: Hip augmentation is a feminizing body procedure for which there is no yet firmly established techniques to do so. Synthetic fillers are a non-surgical method but the high volume of injectate needed and the lack of permanent fillers with a high safety profile limit their use and effectiveness. While fat injections are a widely Read More…

The Subiliac Hip Implant in the Thin Female Patient

Hip implants remain an evolving aesthetic procedure as evidenced by the lack of any standard implant to do so. Part of this is due to the historic lack of demand for the procedure as well as cultural norms in the Western world where larger hips was not seen as desirable. But that has all changed Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Iliac Crest Plate with Subiliac Implant (Pelvic Plasty) for Skeletally-Based Hip Augmentation

Background: The hips, while occupying the side of the upper outer leg, have diverse areas of potential augmentation. Traditional hip augmentation typically refers to the soft tissue area below the iliac crest and extending down to or even beyond the greater trochanter of the femur. A variety of implants have been developed for this hip Read More…

Technical Strategies – Percutaneous Release of Hip Implant Inferior Edging

Hip implants are unique amongst all aesthetic body implants. Their vertical orientation in a more superficial tissue pocket location is what separates it from other body implants. Any extremity (arm and leg) implant does also have a periodic vertical orientation but those implants are either in the subfascial or submuscular pockets which provide better implant Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Hip Dip Implants After Fat Grafting

Background: Of all aesthetic body implants they greatest unfulfilled need is for a hip implant. While historically the concept of hip augmentation was unknown today between cultural changes in aesthetic body shapes and the ubiquity of BBL surgery, to name the top two reasons, the desire for hip augmentation has become common. As an extension Read More…

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…