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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Pelvic Plasty for Increasing Female Pelvic Bone Width

Background: Hip augmentation is one of the last aesthetic body contouring areas to be more fully developed. Past and current efforts have looked at how the hips are perceived in many females where there is a relationship between the buttocks and the hip at both the anatomic and aesthetic levels. BBL surgery has brought the Read More…

Pelvic Plasty – 5. Recovery

Pelvic Plasty is a skeletal-based form of hip augmentation that increases pelvic bone width. The postoperative swelling and discomfort it causes is not particularly different from hip implant augmentation in general. There will be drains placed at the end of the surgery that will need to be in place for a few days after the Read More…

Pelvic Plasty – 4. The Sub Iliac Plate Hip Dip Implant

While iliac plates provide an effective pelvic bone width augmentation the iliac crest does not comprise the entire hip region. It is a very specific form of hip augmentation that is skeletally based. Two-thirds of the total hip region lies below the bony crest. The middle third of the hips is known as the hip Read More…

Pelvic Plasty – 3. Surgical Placement of the Iliac Plates

In placing iliac plates for pelvic bone widening its location on the bone will determine its effectiveness. The iliac crest is on the top of the wing of the ilium which flares outward at about a 45 degree angle in which it has an inner and outer lip. To optimally widen the pelvic bone the Read More…

Pelvic Plasty – 2. The Iliac Plate

Widening pelvic bone width requires the placement of an implant along the anterior half of the iliac crest to expand its contour outward. Amongst all aesthetic implants this pelvic implant is unique. It does not call itself an implant, rather it is called an iliac plate and is of metallic composition. This is the only Read More…

Pelvic Plasty – 1. The Anatomic Basis for Increasing Pelvic Bone Width

The hips have long been one of the main features of attractiveness for the female body. Having an outward curve of the hips is important as it creates a visual separation from the waist above it. Anthropometrically studies have shown that the relationship or ratio between the waist and hips (Waist-Hip Ratio, WHR), as measured Read More…

Pelvic Plasty – Iliac Crest Plate Widths

Most aesthetic body contouring surgeries manipulate soft tissues for augmentative or reductive changes. Very few aesthetic procedures, unlike the face, change the bony structures to exert its effects. Such body procedures include limb lengthening, shoulder narrowing and lengthening and lower ribcage reductions for waistline/torso narrowing. But a new structural body procedure has emerged for aesthetic Read More…

Pelvis Plasty for Upper Hip Widening – Iliac Crest Plate Design

Pelvic plasty is a new structural body contouring surgery for upper hip widening. (at least in the U.S.) It does use an osteotomy or bone moving procedure to create this effect. Rather the hip augmentation is created by adding an implant to the iliac crest rim of the pelvic bone. Given the location of the Read More…

Iliac Crest Implants For Aesthetic Widening of the Bony Hips

The pelvis is large collection of conjoined bones that provides soft tissue support between the abdomen and the thighs. It extends from the lower back by the sacrum and coccyx and extends forward on both sides by a pair of hip bones. These hip bones have three sections to them which include the top (ilium), Read More…