A Brazilian Butt Lift is a popular procedure for people in Munster, IN, Hobart, IN, Crown Point, IN, and Frankfort, IL who are unhappy with the shape and size of their buttocks. A Brazilian Butt Lift from Robert Frank, MD Plastic Surgery provides patients with the shapely buttocks they’ve always wanted, while also providing the added benefit of liposuction of the abdomen, flanks, and thighs.* The Brazilian Butt Lift adds another element to Dr. Robert Frank’s ability to contour your body.
The Brazilian Butt Lift Procedure
A Brazilian Butt Lift is a combined liposuction and fat injection procedure. With a Brazilian Butt Lift, Dr. Frank will perform liposuction of your problem areas, such as your abdomen, flanks, thighs or other areas to harvest fat cells. These fat cells will be filtered and processed, and then injected into your buttock fat and muscles to provide you with more curvaceous, lifted butt.* Unlike butt implants which were popular in the past, a Brazilian Butt Lift provides more natural looking results and can last a lifetime.* It’s important for the patients we serve in Munster, Hobart, Crown Point, and Frankfort to know that not all the fat transferred during the procedure will survive. Some of the fat cells will not gain a blood supply in their new home and will be broken up by your body in the same way it handles other injured cells. For this reason, patients should not expect to see the degree of improvement six months down the road that they see immediately following their Brazilian Butt Lift procedure.*
*Individual results may vary
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Harvesting Fat for a Munster & Hobart Brazilian Butt Lift
Sometimes, when having a consultation at our practice that serves the communities of Munster, Hobart, Crown Point, and Frankfort, Brazilian Butt Lift patients are concerned that they do not have enough fat on their bodies to harvest for a Brazilian Butt Lift. Our office has found that this is typically not the case. The amount of fat that Dr. Frank needs to harvest for your Brazilian Butt Lift all depends on your frame and unique physique. If you have some excess fat spread amongst your abdomen, thighs, flanks, and back, you likely have enough fat to be liposuctioned out for a Brazilian Butt Lift.
Recovery from a Munster & Hobart Brazilian Butt Lift
A Brazilian Butt Lift is an outpatient procedure, but there are still several instructions that you will need to follow to recover properly from your Brazilian Butt Lift and achieve the optimal results. First, since you will be placed under general anesthesia for your Brazilian Butt Lift, you will need to arrange for a friend or family member to drive you home from your surgery. You will also want to arrange for someone to stay with you for the first few days after your surgery to help you get around, as cooking and getting things for yourself may be difficult.
After your Brazilian Butt Lift surgery, you will not be able to sit or lie on your buttocks for two weeks.* Instead, you can lie on your stomach, your side, or use pillows underneath your thighs to prop yourself up and off of your buttocks. It is crucial that you follow these post-operative instructions to not sit on your buttocks, as failing to do so may put undue pressure on your buttocks and cause the injected fat to not properly graft with your buttocks tissue, thus negatively impacting your final results.
While it is important for you to rest and relax following any surgery, you will want to walk around as soon as possible after your Brazilian Butt Lift. You will also need to take your pain medication as prescribed – even if that means waking up in the middle of the night so that you don’t skip a dose – and abstain from drinking alcohol while you are taking pain medication.
After about two weeks following your Brazilian Butt Lift in Munster, Hobart, Crown Point, and Frankfort, you will be able to return to work or school.* However, you will need to refrain from strenuous lifting or exercise for about 2 months.* When you exercise, you burn fat, and if you exercise too soon after a Brazilian Butt Lift, you may inadvertently burn off the fat that was injected into your gluteal muscles, thus negatively impacting your final Brazilian Butt Lift results.
Dr. Frank’s Advice on Recovery
We all have our own ideas of how long recovery should take. Unfortunately, this means many patients try to rush their recovery and go back to normal activities. This trend is especially true among young mothers who want to spend every moment with their children. They may attempt to play with or pick up their children before their bodies are ready to handle that strain.
Dr. Frank sees rushed recoveries in several ways, with one of the most common being pain. Patients who try to be too active too early in the recovery process often find themselves running through their pain medication too soon and have to ask for an early refill. Rather than increase the amount of medication you take, you will feel better sooner and end the period wherein you need the medication faster if you allow your body to rest. Do not force your body to undergo more physical strain than it is ready to handle. It is okay to take 30-minute breaks on the couch.
Another way Dr. Frank sees patients push themselves too hard is an increased risk of both swelling and dangerous hematomas.
For example, after liposuction, your body needs time to move fluid out of your skin. Patients who have had liposuction will have skin that feels firmer than untreated areas because of this fluid buildup. Getting that fluid out of your skin is one of your recovery goals during the weeks after surgery. But if you activate your muscles near the treated area, that activity draws fluid into the area, which increases swelling and often pain. In the case of a tummy tuck, too much activity early in your recovery can increase blood pressure, which then causes more oozing into the space created during surgery. While a little fluid is normal, it’s easy to overwhelm your body’s ability to absorb this fluid. A hematoma is the result.
To minimize these concerns, Dr. Frank encourages all patients to clear their schedules of everything except the most essential duties for the two weeks after surgery. You should minimize the amount of childcare, job responsibilities, meetings, social activities, and home chores in which you partake so your body can rest. You will feel better and recover faster if you plan ahead so that your body, not your calendar, determines when you are ready for your physical activities.
Am I a Good Candidate for a Munster & Hobart Brazilian Butt Lift?
There are several factors that make patients good candidates for a Brazilian Butt Lift, including:
- Being in general good health
- Having realistic expectations for a Brazilian Butt Lift procedure
- Having excess fat to harvest for a Brazilian Butt Lift
- Being a non-smoker, or promise to quit smoking at least 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after your Brazilian Butt Lift as smoking can interfere with both the surgical procedure and Brazilian Butt Lift recovery time
- Being in good psychological health
If you’re ready to get the shapelier buttocks you’ve always desired, now’s the time to do something about it. Robert Frank, MD Plastic Surgery provides Brazilian Butt Lifts for qualified patients in Munster, Hobart, Crown Point, and Frankfort. Call Dr. Frank at (219) 513-2011 or contact him online to schedule your free Brazilian Butt Lift consultation today.