Category: hip implants

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…

Hip Widening By Iliac Crest Bone Implant Augmentation – Concept and Technique

Hip augmentation is most commonly perceived as the region over the greater trochanter of the upper leg. It is intended to widen the soft tissue hip region as it relates to the same level as the buttocks but more anteriorly located. This can be accomplished by either fat injections or implants, each which has their Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Maximal Body Contouring with Combined Rib Removals and Custom Buttock and Hip Implants

Background: The mid-body region for contouring can be done by a variety of surgical procedures. The most well known and commonly done are liposuction, fat transfer augmentations and buttock implants. This collection of now standard procedures can satisfy most patient’s needs for a smaller waistline, larger and more shapely buttocks and, in some cases, even Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Hip Implants in the Thin Female

Background: Hip augmentation remains one of the newer forms of body augmentation. The widespread use of fat injections for buttock augmentation has brought similar attention to the geographically proximate hip region. To some degree they are both anatomically and aesthetically connected as it is hard to see one without the other. Often volumetric and shape Read More…

The Challenges of Hip Implant Augmentation

The interest in the hip augmentation has skyrocketed as the number of adjacent buttock procedures have risen over the past decade. While some buttock procedures can create some degree of a hip augmentation effect (fat injections, subfascial implants), most of the time the resultant hip widening is seen as either short-lived (fat injections) or incomplete/inadequate. Read More…

Postoperative Instructions – Hip Implants

When augmentation of the hips has been unsuccessful by fat injections or the patient has insufficient fat to harvest, hip implants are the sole alternative. Such hip implants are usually deigned custom for each patient. Placed in a deep subcutaneous pocket on top of the TFL fascia, hip implants are introduced through a small incision Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Direct Approach to Inferior Repositioning of Bilateral Hip Implants

Background: Hip implants are the newest implant method of augmentative body contouring. Their recent emergence as an aesthetic option for hip augmentation has been generated by the widespread popularity of fat injection buttock augmentation (Brazilian Butt Lift) and the need to have the lateral hip areas complement it as well as the lack of consistent Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Hip Implants Following Intramuscular Buttock Implants

Background: Successful buttock augmentation can be done with either fat injections or implants. But in very thin patients fat injections are not a buttock augmentation option ad implants have to be used. In such thin patients the best location for buttock implants is in the intramuscular location. This provides the best camouflage of their outline Read More…

OR Snapshots – Combining Custom Buttock and Hip Implants

As the popularity of buttock augmentation has soared over the past decade, the need for hip augmentation has also arisen. No form of buttock augmentation, whether it is by implants or fat injections, can successfully provide substantial hip augmentation. Buttock implants certainly can not regardless of whether they are even placed in the subfascial tissue Read More…