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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 – 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…

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