Category: pelvic plasty

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…