What is Brazilian Buttock Surgery (BBL)?

Brazilian buttock surgery; is the process of removing excess fat from the belly, waist, and leg areas and placing and shaping these fats in the buttocks in order to obtain a more lifted and rounded butt look.

During butt surgery; Applications such as butt lift, shaping, enlargement, and reduction, regulation of hip lines, cupping and shaping in the waist cavity, and removal of excess hips are performed together.

The Aesthetic and Plastic Surgeon can make the ideal shape recommendation for the operation as a result of the evaluations made specifically for the health and body structure of the person. Since this plastic surgery is performed in line with individual demands in order for the person to have the body appearance of their dreams, it is a personalized operation.

How Does the Brazilian Type Butt Lift Work?

Brazilian butt lift basically includes 3 steps.

1. With liposuction, fat is removed from the hips, waist, thighs, abdomen or other areas.

2. The extracted oil is purified and prepared for transfer

3. The cosmetic surgeon injects fat into specific points of the buttocks to increase volume and improve shape.

What You Need to Know About the BBL Process?

With Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) butt surgery, you can have straighter, rounder, and firmer-looking hips in two hours.

In addition, for this surgery, unwanted fats formed in areas such as waist circumference and abdomen are removed by liposuction method and used for shaping the butt. In this way, you can get rid of excess fat and have a great buttock appearance.

Buttock fat injection, hip aesthetics, more popularly known as Brazilian butt lift (BBL), is a body shaping procedure performed to remove the deformed, smaller or larger than normal size, flattened, sagging appearance.

In this surgery, fat tissues are taken from other parts of the body with vaser liposuction and injected into empty areas in the hip area, that is, the deformed areas are filled and shaped with fat injection.

With this process, unwanted fat from the body is removed first. In other words, the first part of this surgery is Liposuction – Fat removal.

The fats taken are used as fillers for the necessary places.

The operation plan is applied according to the form of the body, the waist part is thinned, excess fat is reduced in the hips.

Fat is injected into the required places to make it look fuller, shaped and upright, and shaping is performed.

Pre Operation Period 

It is important that the person is psychologically ready for a successful surgery.

The technique to being used during the surgery is decided with the examinations of the Aesthetic Surgeon and the requests of the person. For fat injection to the butt, the patient must have enough fat.

If there are enough fat cells after the doctor's examination, the operation is planned.

Before the operation, the necessary health tests are performed by the doctor. The surgery is performed under general anesthesia.

There are rules that the person must follow before the surgery. 

• If you are a smoker, do not smoke for at least 24 hours before surgery.
• Stop drinking alcohol 1 week before the operation.
• Stop using blood thinners. If you have used it, be sure to inform your doctor.
• If you have a chronic disease, tell your doctor before surgery.
• Stop or reduce caffeinated foods and drinks for 24 hours before surgery.
• Remove the nail polish from your finger. (The oxygen level of the patient under general anesthesia is primarily followed from the nails)
• Talk to your doctor about the last time you should eat.

Post Operation Period and Healing Period

After the Brazilian butt lift operation, the person stays in the hospital for 1 day. For the next 3 days should lie down and rest.

The dressing is done on the 4th day of the surgery.

After the dressing is applied on the 4th day, the patient begins to return to normal life. The patient can move without damaging the stitches, take slow-paced walks, sit on a soft floor, and do his/her bathroom and daily work.

In the first week after the operation, redness, swelling and bruising can be seen in the butt area, it is very normal. After the first month, these scars completely disappear. It regains its natural and new appearance.

A special sitting pillow recommended by the doctor for the BBL operation should be used for a while as a way of sitting and lying down.

What should be considered after the surgery?

Pain and movement difficulties that may occur after Brazilian butt lift may cause anxiety in patients. Following the rules to be considered after butt aesthetics will minimize these concerns.

• Please do not take a shower for the first three days after Brazilian butt lift, this is not recommended.
• The corset recommended by the doctor should be worn for at least 3 weeks after the operation and the corset should be removed only while taking a bath.
• Pain and aches are normal in the first days after the procedure. These can be relieved with pain killers.
• Long walking and heavy exercises should not be done for a few weeks after aesthetic surgery.