Liposuction #49599

This patient lost a significant amount of weight and then underwent a lower body lift with Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL). A lower body lift rejuvenates multiple body areas in one procedure, addressing the abdomen, the front and outer thigh, and buttocks. Combined with a buttock augmentation, this procedure is the most powerful procedure for weight loss patients! Understandably, patients sometimes have hesitation about undergoing a BBL so let's talk about that for a minute.

Up until 2017, there was a very high rate of deaths due to this procedure. This stemmed from a combination of surgeons performing a high volume of these in one day and injecting fat without ultrasound guidance. Some surgeons would perform a BBL in an alarmingly short period of time, indicative of a surgical technique that is at minimum imprecise, if not unsafe. The Aesthetic Society assembled a task force of plastic surgeons to provide guidance on how to decrease the mortality from this procedure. Since these guidelines were published and standards followed, the rate of death from BBL has dropped from 1/6,000 to 1/15,000, putting the risk of death in line with other aesthetic procedures. Do your homework when deciding on who should do your BBL procedure!