Category: pelvic plasty | plastic surgery case study

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Pelvic Plasty with Liposuction and Tummy Tuck Waist Contouring

Background: Hip augmentation has turned out to be a more variable procedure than initially perceived. Hip augmentation was largely unknown in plastic surgery prior to BBL surgery. Historically aesthetic hip surgery was about reduction to gain more narrow hips and less full thighs as liposuction was introduced and widely clinically used. Hip augmentation gained traction 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…

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…

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…