What Will a Brazilian Butt Lift Do For Loose Skin?

Having full buttocks has become very popular thanks to several well-known celebrities. While a Brazilian butt lift is designed to augment the buttocks, it traditionally doesn't address loose skin. Loose skin can be one of the more concerning factors about your backside that can mask the surgery's results even with an augmentation.

 

The Brazilian Butt Lift Explained

The Brazilian Butt Lift is a procedure that adds shape and increases the volume of your buttocks using unwanted fat collected from donor areas of your body.

The two-step process involves liposuction to remove the excess fat tissue from areas such as the abdomen, hips, and thighs. The fat is then purified and cleaned to be administered above the glute muscles to reshape and contour the area.

The main benefits of a fat transfer to the buttocks are:

1. No synthetic fillers or implants used
2. The results look and feel natural
3. You're able to slim down other areas of the body by removing the surrounding fat
4. The procedure is much less invasive than implants

Candidates For A BBL

The ideal candidate for a Brazilian Butt Lift is someone with enough excess fat around their body to transfer to the buttocks.

Patients who are very slim and do not have much fat to work with should opt for buttocks implants instead of adding volume. 

Surgeons generally recommend that patients be at their ideal weight before undergoing the BBL, given that significant weight fluctuations can change the results.

It's also important that you be generally healthy. Therefore, smoking should be avoided six weeks before and after the procedure, given that it could interfere with how your transferred fat adapts to its environment and how you heal from incisions.

What does a butt lift do for loose skin? All patients must understand that the BBL is not a weight-loss solution, and it's designed to contour the collection sites and augment the buttocks. Other factors such as loose skin cannot be addressed during a traditional liposuction Brazilian Butt Lift, given that it's not a part of the procedure. In fact, most fat removal treatments leave patients with more loose skin than they began.

How Is Loose Skin Addressed?

If you have a significant amount of fat, you could couple the Brazilian Butt Lift with a lifting procedure. Lifting procedures involve removing excess fat and loose skin via excision and tightening the remaining skin to create a smoother surface.

The primary considerations of lifting procedures are that they are significantly more invasive due to the use of a scalpel. They also do require much more expertise from the surgeon, given that it requires much more reconstruction than a fat transfer.

Is There A More Suitable Alternative?

One of the main things people would like to avoid as much as possible about surgery is a long recovery and unneeded risks from general anesthesia.

And that's completely logical. There's no reason that you invest your time, well-being, and money into a procedure that doesn't provide you with beneficial results. Elite Body Sculpture is here to make sure that that doesn't happen.

Elite Body Sculpture, one of North America's leading providers of fat removal procedures, works under the premise that all patients should have a comfortable, accurate, and safe experience in making changes to their bodies.

That's why we can provide our patients with outstanding results and a luxury experience without using invasive techniques used in most traditional liposuction surgeries. Instead, we use our patented AirSculpt® technology to provide a minimally invasive treatment that doesn't require a scalpel, needle, stitches, or general anesthesia to sculpt the body.

The Benefits of AirSculpt® Power BBL™ 

The many benefits of AirSculpt® Power BBL™ can be understood via the process used.

Instead of painful needles, the procedure numbs the skin with an AirPen, a device that uses pressurized air to administer topical numbing medication. 

After the harvest sites have been numbed, a biopsy punch is used to form a tiny and symmetrical two-millimeter hole to begin the fat removal phase. We prefer using this tool instead of a scalpel to minimize scarring and create a more comfortable experience.

The area is prepped with local anesthesia, a critical distinction between us and most techniques that require the patient to be put under general anesthesia. Then, the patented AirSculpt® cannula is inserted. 

Before we continue, let's answer the question: will a BBL tighten or remove loose skin? The traditional BBL won't, but the AirSculpt® Power BBL™ actually can.

That's the magic of the patented cannula; it's designed to simultaneously remove fat and help tighten the surrounding skin, giving you a smoother and more toned contour than other surgeries. We should note that this skin tightening effect applies to areas targeted with fat removal and not the buttocks. That said, the buttocks often become firmer, thanks to the added volume from the fat injected. 

Another groundbreaking aspect of the AirSculpt® Power BBL™ is that it doesn't use stitches. The openings made with the biopsy punch are so tiny that they're naturally left to heal and only produce a freckle-sized mark afterward.

That said, if you want to make the optimal changes to your body, the best bet is to work with Elite. Schedule your free consultation at one of our various body contouring centers nationwide to learn more.