In the face of ever-increasing demand for buttock augmentation procedures, plastic surgeons are looking for new opportunities to perform it. For example, recently surgeons from Baltimore offered their technique for consideration by colleagues. They used abdominal skin-fat grafts for buttock augmentation.
Three surgeons analyzed the results of 9 similar experiments involving female patients. The average age of the subjects was 46 years old, all of them underwent torsoplasty or abdominoplasty. During the operations, 2 oval skin-fat flaps were excised, de-epithelialized and implanted in the subfascial pockets in the buttocks.
The average weight of the flaps was 288 grams, the area was 188 cm2. In 9 cases, only one complication was observed - the development of infection in the transplantation area, due to which the skin-fat flap was removed 39 days after surgery. Despite this, scientists stated that all transplants that took root significantly improved the projection and increased the volume of the buttocks.
"Large skin-fat flaps excised during abdominoplasty turned out to be a good material for buttock augmentation, which practically does not lose volume in the long term. The use of such flaps allowed us to solve 2 cosmetic problems at once: to enlarge the buttocks and improve the contours of the abdomen," – says the author of the study.
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