Category: hip implants

Aesthetic Hip Augmentation – Surgical Placement of Hip Implants

The surgical placement of aesthetic hip implants is dictated by the soft tissue anatomy between the iliac crest and the greater trochanter of the femur. While it would be ideal to place the implant in a subfascial or submuscular plane over the lateral pelvis where the implant is protected and edges would have no risk Read More…

Aesthetic Hip Implants – Design Considerations

For custom aesthetic hip implants, the dimensions are driven more by the patient’s pelvic width, soft-tissue thickness, and desired silhouette than by a standard size. Typical design ranges I have used are: Parameter Typical Range Vertical length 14–22 cm Maximum width 10–14 cm Maximum projection 1.5 – 4.0 cm Edge thickness Feathered to near Read More…

Aesthetic Hip Augmentation – Basic Implant Concepts

Aesthetic hip implants are usually custom solid silicone designs because there are no widely available true “standard” hip implants, and the hip has a complex, curved, vertically oriented contour. Key Hip Implant Augmentation Design Concepts Intended to fill the hip dip zone between the iliac crest and the greater trochanter of the femur. Avoid going Read More…

Technical Strategies: Iliac Crest Suture Anchors in Hip Implants

Aesthetic hip implants are solid silicone body-contouring implants used to widen or smooth the lateral hip/“hip dip” area. They are a specialized aesthetic surgery option for patients seeking lateral hip width or hip-dip correction when fat grafting is inadequate or unavailable Hip Implant Concepts:: Best use: thin patients or patients without enough fat for hip Read More…

Custom Hip Implants – Current State of the Art

Aesthetic hip implants are silicone implants placed over the outer pelvis/hip region to increase hip width, roundness, and curve, enhancing the waist-to-hip ratio.They are most often used to: Correct hip dips Create a more hourglass silhouette Complement previous BBL results when fat alone isn’t enough Done with rib removal waist reshaping surgery for a more Read More…

Pushing the Limits: Combining Multiple Structural Body Contouring Procedures

Background Aesthetic body contouring encompasses a wide array of procedures, most of which focus on the soft tissues. Traditional techniques such as liposuction and various excisional or tightening procedures of the breast, abdomen, and extremities address the consequences of weight loss, pregnancy, or unfavorable genetics. However, a unique category of body contouring procedures targets the Read More…

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…