Compiled by Tosin Adesile
A Brazilian butt lift (BBL) is a procedure that improves -augments- the look of your buttocks in addition to removing fat from other parts of your body -liposuction.
However, a Brazilian butt lift isn’t a traditional “lift” procedure like a facelift or breast lift despite its name.
A Brazilian butt lift adds volume to and improves the shape of your butt, but it won’t improve sagging or excess skin. If you have sagging or excess skin, talk to your healthcare provider about a butt lift.
Doctors called plastic surgeons perform Brazilian butt lifts.
Buttock augmentation with fat grafting” and “safe subcutaneous buttock augmentation (SSBA)” are other names for the procedure
During a Brazilian butt lift, a doctor called a plastic surgeon will remove fat deposits from other parts of your body and insert them into areas around your butt. After you’ve recovered, your butt will be bigger, stick out more and have an even shape. The areas of your body that had fat removed will have smoother body contours.
Getting a Brazilian butt lift is a personal decision. Pursuing your wants and desires for your body can be very empowering.
To be considered for a Brazilian butt lift, you should:
Be finished developing.
Be in good physical health.
Have realistic expectations.
Have enough excess body fat available in other parts of your body to transfer to your butt.
If you don’t have enough excess body fat available, you may be a good candidate for butt implants.
How long does a Brazilian butt lift last?
The effects of a Brazilian butt lift are semi-permanent. They should last several years and may even last for over a decade without any follow-up treatments.
However, your body changes as you get older, which can affect your results over time. To preserve the effects of your Brazilian butt lift, you should maintain a consistent weight.
Qualifications for Brazilian butt lift procedure?
You must be at least 18 years old to get a Brazilian butt lift.
However, your body is unique — you may not complete puberty until you’re older than 18.
If you haven’t finished developing, the results of your Brazilian butt lift procedure may be affected.
Your healthcare provider will assess many factors, including your mental health and any social conditions. Your healthcare provider may ask you the following questions:
Why do you want a Brazilian butt lift?
Do you think a lot about imagined or very small defects with your body?
Is a spouse, partner or friend encouraging you to get a Brazilian butt
Before your spouse, partner or friend encouragimes you to get a Brazilian butt lift?
Try and be aware of the risks involved in a Brazilian butt lift procedure, including fat embolisms?
Your healthcare provider will evaluate your general health, including any preexisting health conditions or risk factors. Talk to your healthcare provider about any allergies you have. Tell them about any prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medications that you’re taking, including herbal supplements.
Your physical health and the shape of your body are also important. Your healthcare provider will examine the following regions to determine the best place(s) to perform the fat harvesting via liposuction:
Lower back region.
Hips.
Inner thighs.
Outer thighs.
The space between your tailbone, sacrum and rectum (presacral triangle).
What happens after a Brazilian butt lift procedure?
After the Brazilian butt lift procedure, your healthcare provider will wrap your affected areas with a compression band to reduce bleeding. If you’re receiving general anesthesia, your anesthesiologist will stop putting anesthesia into your body to keep you asleep. You’ll move to a recovery room, where healthcare providers wait for you to wake up and monitor your overall health.
Once you wake up, you may feel dazed, and your affected areas may feel sore. Your healthcare providers will continue to monitor your overall health for up to several hours. Once they determine that you no longer need monitoring, they’ll discharge you (let you go home). You must have a family member or friend drive you home and take care of you for at least the first 24 hours after your Brazilian butt lift procedure.
It may take up to six months for your body to fully recover after your Brazilian butt lift procedure. During this time, you may have to eat a high-protein diet to assist your healing. This will help you maintain your new shape. You may also have to incorporate lower body exercises that focus on your butt, including leg lifts, lunges and squats.
Your buttocks will stabilize after three to six months. Most patients can expect the results of a Brazilian butt lift to last five years or more. In some cases, the results can last a decade if you treat the procedure to maximize the results.
To do a BBL in Nigeria,it will cost you between 1,300,000-₦1,524,800 depending on the organisation.
Advantages of a Brazilian butt lift?
Here are the advantages of having Brazilian butt lift when performed by a qualified and experienced plastic surgeon:
The procedure is safer than other surgeries, including silicone butt implants.
The effects look natural.
The effects can last a long time.
It can boost your self-esteem.
Your clothes may fit better or more comfortably.
Risks or complications of a Brazilian butt lift?
Your butt contains many blood vessels and nerves. If the cannula strikes any of these structures during the surgery, it can lead to injury, a fat embolism or death.
Bruising.
Infection.
Skin discoloration.
Swelling or poor wound healing.