Brazilian Butt Lifts: Your Questions Answered

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FAQs About Brazilian Butt Lifts

What is a Brazilian Butt Lift?
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A Brazilian Butt Lift is a cosmetic procedure that can treat a flat or sagging backside with minimal downtime. Butt lifts provide instant fullness and volume to the buttocks using excess fat in the thighs, abdomen and/or hips through liposuction. This will work to contour flat buttocks, re-shape the buttocks and created projection if desired, and give an overall uplifted look to the entire backside that looks attractive and natural compared with buttock implants.

Who is a candidate for a Brazilian Butt Lift?
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More information is available on our page: Who is a Candidate for a Brazilian Butt Lift? In short, this is a great choice for anyone looking to lift or enhance the contours of their backside. Those who are looking to boost their self-confidence and feel proud in (and out of) their clothes can benefit from a Brazilian Butt Lift in Los Angeles, which can improve balance proportions in any body type.

As with any surgical procedure, it is important for women interested in a butt lift to have realistic expectations, be at a healthy and comfortable weight and be in good health overall. Those in the range of their ideal weight will see the best results and maintaining a steady weight after any body contouring procedures is important as well.

How much does a Brazilian Butt Lift cost?
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The price for the Brazilian Butt Lift ranges depending on how much work is required and how much liposculpting will be done. There are also payment plans available to accomodate different budgets. Contact us to schedule a consultation.

What Is the difference between a Brazilian Butt Lift and Butt Implants?
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See our article about that: Brazilian Butt Lift vs. Buttock Implants. In short, a more natural look and feel is much easier to acheive using a patient's own fat vs. silicone implants. A Brazilian Butt Lift also may have a lowered risk of infection since the patient's own body tissue is used for the procedure, allowing a quicker recovery time to return to daily activities.

How does it take to recover from a Brazilian butt lift?
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The recovery time for the Brazilian Butt Lift ranges in time on a patient by patient basis, but many happy clients have returned to their desk jobs within a week's time. In some cases, this recovery time can last longer, but butt lift patients can expect to return to moderate activity within 3 to 4 weeks in most cases.

How long will my Butt Lift last?
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The normal estimate for the results that you will see from your Brazilian Butt Lift is up to 20 years! While a portion of the fat injected is naturally absorbed back into the body, a portion stays and remains permanent. Natural aging will change the shape of anyone's body of many years, of course, and results are best maintained by keeping a stable and healthy body weight. Dramatic weight gains or losses may affect the shape and feel of your butt lift procedure in the future, and we notice that smokers tend to re-absorb/lose more of the fat that was injected during fat grafting vs. those who do not smoke.

What are the risks involved with a Brazilian Butt Lift?
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Risks are something you should discuss with any surgeon prior to having surgery. Using Board Certified plastic surgeons like we do at Sunset who have years and years of training helps minimize the risks, which are similar to the risks of any surgical procedure. Any surgical procedure involves some risk but also depends on the health and lifestyle of the patient.

What is the recovery like after a Brazilian Butt Lift?
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After you have undergone your butt lift surgery, you will recover under the care of the surgical staff at an accredited outpatient surgery center near our office. Brazilian butt lift patients may be able to return to full activity levels within three to four weeks.

Depending on the case, you may need to wear a support garment under your clothes for a short amount of time after your surgery. There will be swelling and bruising, which subside over the weeks that follow your surgery. The doctor may ask you to be careful and aware of how you are seated for several weeks, but each case is different and your personalized post-operative protocol will be reviewed with you during your pre-op visits.

Out of town patients need to stay a minimum stay of 7-10 days .

What if I don't have enough body fat?
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If you are a very small or thin woman that does not have enough body fat, you can use donor fat for your Brazilian Butt Lift procedure. This will offer the same results in a butt lift augmentation as opposed to the use of silicone implants. With donor fat, the Los Angeles Brazilian Butt Lift will still be administered in the same way by removing loose and sagging skin and injecting donor fat into the area to create a full and prominent backside. This is actually the ideal treatment for small and thin women to offer a fullness to the backside, even if they have low levels of body fat overall.