Plastic surgery & Body Contouring
Buttock Enhancement in Orange County and Los Angeles, California
General Information About Buttock Enhancement in Southern California
With the increasing public awareness and knowledge of buttock reshaping procedures, ever more patients are requesting buttock enhancement surgeries to achieve rounder, more projected, and curvaceous buttocks.
Buttock shape is influenced by a number of factors that include genetics, gender, race, age, and weight. Some people have small or large buttocks that are genetically coded. For others, the buttock shape and size may reflect their racial background. Weight can also influence and affect the volume and shape of the buttocks and surrounding anatomy. Other factors such as aging, pregnancy, and weight loss play important roles in the buttock form. Aging results in a mild degree of fat loss from the buttocks with skin and connective tissue laxity. The buttocks are thus loose and saggy. Similarly, after pregnancy, many women experience some fat loss from their buttocks. In the extreme, massive weight loss or post-bariatric patients experience significant deflation of the buttock region as well as the rest of their body. The deflated buttocks are typically loose and saggy. There is significant excess of lower back and buttock skin and soft tissue.
Patients present for buttock enhancement with different concerns. Each patient has different needs and requests. Some will need buttock reduction while others request buttock augmentation and reshaping. For others, a combination of buttock reduction with lift or buttock augmentation with lift will be more appropriate. In recent years, Dr. Agha has developed signature buttock reshaping procedures as a result of his extensive experience in body contouring surgery.
Buttock Enhancement or Gluteoplasty is the lifting, sculpting, or augmenting of the buttocks to achieve a more aesthetic body proportion. The buttocks can be reshaped using a number of distinctly different methods:
Buttock Lift- This procedure involves removal of excess skin from the upper buttocks and lower back to correct for buttock looseness and sagging.
Buttock Augmentation- This procedure can be performed by using silicone buttock implants or your own fat. The latter procedure is known as buttock lipoaugmentation or the Brazilian Butt Lift. Due to the risk of complications and problems with use of buttock implants, most of our Orange County patients elect to have buttock lipoaugmentation.
Buttock Reduction and Lift- This procedure involves removal of excess tissue from the buttocks and lower back along with tightening of the buttocks.
Buttock Augmentation and Lift- This procedure involves the use of lower back tissue to augment the buttock projection along with tightening of the buttocks.
Ideal Buttocks Aesthetics
The ideal buttock contour follows certain features that define an aesthetically beautiful figure. These include:
- Buttocks that are round or A-type shaped
- Buttocks that are projected appropriately according to your body type
- A smooth inward sweep of the lower back (lumbosacral area)
- A “V-shaped depression” that demarcates the lower back and buttock regions
- A concave waist line
- Minimal or no sagging of the buttock tissue over the crease that separates the buttock from the thigh (infragluteal crease)
