Buttocks Lift and Reshaping

Patients may enhance buttock shape with liposuction, buttock lift, buttock implants or fat transfer procedures. Patients with traumatic buttock injuries and contour deformities from injections also need a correctional procedure, often with fat injections and autologous tissue flaps.

It’s important to understand the buttocks lift and reshaping surgery should address the whole back, flanks, hip and thigh as one unit, it is a rather back, buttock and thigh remodelling procedure.

The purpose of the buttock musculature in stability and gait is an important consideration and often has an impact on the procedure chosen.

No procedure must be carried out on the buttock area or the posterior contour without a complete assessment and thorough understanding of its complexity. Patients requesting treatment should be made aware about the potential risk factors associated with any surgical procedure.

Plan your surgery

The Consultation

It is essential to understand the variances between female and male buttocks. Curvy lines, round volumes and prominent projection characterise a woman’s buttock, while a man’s buttock is characterised by straight lines, square volumes and side depressions. There should be no full gluteal crease, which may indicate early ptosis. Complete assessment and knowledge of all the above is critically important and should be brought to the attention of the patient prior to surgery.

Buttocks Lift and Reshaping Surgery

There are different techniques suiting different patients for buttock surgery. They include minimally invasive procedures, liposuction, buttock lifting procedures, buttock enhancement with lipofilling or implant procedures.

Sydney Plastic Surgery offers the following surgery:

• Buttock lift
• Buttock Augmentation
• Buttocks reduction and reshaping with or without liposuction: for patients who have large buttock.
• Fatty accumulation under the waist.
• Fatty accumulation on the sides of the thighs
• Fat deposit and fascial tissue at the junction of the lower part of the buttocks and the thigh.
• Gluteal retraction Treatment: irregularity, depression and hollows on the buttock surface caused by pathological conditions of the subcutaneous tissue, fascia or muscle.

Dr Barnouti MBBS, FRACS (Plas), looks forward to helping you make the right decision about your health.

What are the risks associated with this procedure?

Plastic surgery, like any surgical procedure, carries inherent risks and potential complications.

Please read our Risks and Complications of Plastic Surgery page.

After Surgery

You will have a simple dressing and compression dressing on the back area for a week. You will also need painkillers and antibiotics for that phase. A follow-up appointment will be arranged for the removal of the dressing and a wound check. The sutures are dissolvable.

Back to work and normal activities

You are encouraged to start walking immediately after surgery. However you will need to take it gently for the first 24-48 hours. Return to light duties in 1 week’s time.

Back to usual activities in 2-4 weeks time