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Fashion trends in recent years have seen greater attention been given to areas of our bodies other than our faces. Often, women, and some men, are now seeking to improve the effects that gravity has had on their sagging flesh.
For example, buttocks begin to droop and change shape as we grow older and women have always been particularly conscious about the size and shape of their bottoms!
Surgeons are learning newer body procedures all the time and these include liposuction, fat transfer and body implants. New methods are constantly being developed to lift or improve certain body parts that in the past people would have had to let age gracefully.
There are several different procedures that can be used to improve the buttock shape and appearance. The buttock can be lifted through surgical incisions and suturing, reshaped with liposuction, added to with buttock implants or fat, or a combination of any of the above can be used.
Your choice of treatment will depend on what shape your body is and what your specific goals may be. You need to look at the size, shape, and the skin quality of your bottom before making any decisions. It is these three factors that will help in arriving at the right operation for you.
A buttock lift is the most complicated procedure of those mentioned above and is generally reserved for patients who have large amounts of loose or sagging skin around the buttocks that needs to be removed in order to reshape the bottom.
Buttock lifts are a relatively new and not commonly performed cosmetic operation, although they have experienced a surge in popularity in recent years. According to statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), 7,780 buttock lifts were performed in 2019 in the U.S., which is a 102.9% increase compared to 2015 and a 48% increase on the year before (2018).
No official figures are yet available for the U.K., but there are a few surgeons who are starting to offer this procedure.
If you're considering a buttock lift, the following information will give you a basic understanding of the procedure. It can't answer all your questions, since a lot depends on the individual patient and the surgeon.
Please ask your surgeon about anything you don't understand.