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4 Ways to Achieve the Best Sleep Possible After a Brazilian Butt Lift

Andrew Trussler MD — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 13:04:38 +0000

Having a Brazilian butt lift (BBL) can be a great way to improve your appearance and boost your confidence. However, the surgery is also quite involved and can be quite painful. Recovery can take several weeks, during which time you must take it easy and get plenty of rest.

One of the most important things you can do during your recovery is to get enough sleep. This will help your body heal and reduce the risk of complications. However, sleeping can be difficult after surgery, as you may be uncomfortable and have trouble getting into a comfortable position.

In this article, we will give you 4 tips on how to get the best sleep possible after a Brazilian butt lift. Following these tips can heal quickly, and enjoy your new look!

What is a Brazilian Butt Lift?

A Brazilian butt lift is a cosmetic surgery procedure involving transferring fat from other body parts to the buttocks. This can help improve the shape and size of the buttocks and create a more rounded and lifted appearance.

The surgery involves using liposuction to remove fat from areas such as the thighs, abdomen, or back. This fat is then purified and injected into the buttocks. The surgery takes around 2-3 hours to complete, and you will need to stay in the hospital overnight.

Why is a Good Night’s Sleep Important After a BBL?

Getting a good night’s sleep is essential for everyone, especially if you have just had surgery. When you sleep, your body can heal and repair itself. This is vital for helping your body recover from surgery and reducing the risk of complications.

You will feel sore and uncomfortable after a Brazilian butt lift. Getting enough sleep will help you feel more comfortable and speed up your recovery.

How to Sleep Better After a BBL: 4 Tips

After a Brazilian butt lift, you can do a few things to help yourself sleep well:

1. Follow your surgeon’s post-operative instructions carefully.

2. Get plenty of rest and avoid physical activity for at least 2 weeks after surgery.

3. Sleep on your stomach or side to avoid putting pressure on your buttocks.

4. Use supportive pillows to keep your back and legs propped up while you sleep to prevent swelling and pain in your buttocks area.

You can get the perfect butt with a unique treatment plan developed by a plastic surgeon in Austin, TX. Schedule a Brazilian Butt Lift consultation today by calling (512) 450-1077.

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Don’t Disrupt the Butt (Augmentation)

Andrew Trussler MD — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 02:42:40 +0000

Brazilian Butt Lift procedures and other surgeries to lift and enhance the buttocks have increased in numbers over the years. Such treatments are popular among patients who have lost a significant amount of weight, as well as those whose backside has turned south with age. Whatever your reason for considering buttock augmentation, one of the biggest questions you may have is how you will get through the recovery period after your procedure. Let’s see what recovery from buttock augmentation may involve.

Buttock augmentation that harvests fat cells from one area, such as the thighs or the flanks, and inserts those cells into the buttocks, is performed to give a rounded, more voluminous appearance. The added volume may also make the backside appear lifted. Because fat cells need time to become integrated with tissue in the area, sitting is one of the primary risks of recovery.

The Issue with Sitting

When we sit, hundreds of pounds of pressure are exerted on certain parts of the buttocks. The newly inserted cells could be disrupted by this force, so sitting is a matter of strategy during recovery from a Brazilian Butt Lift.

For the first week after surgery, it is ideal to sit only to use the bathroom. The avoidance of direct pressure on the buttock means that circulation to integrating cells is not cut off. If you sit for other tasks, do so for no more than one hour, and stand up frequently to shift the distribution of weight.
After the first week, sitting more frequently, such as during work hours, is best done with a pillow that off-loads pressure. This may be a circular pillow or support that you create yourself by placing a rolled towel just behind your knees, and another at your back. If you feel pressure on any part of the buttocks, stand up frequently to minimize the impact on fragile cells.

What about Exercise

Patients who undergo buttock augmentation with fat injections are encouraged to walk a comfortable amount as soon as they feel they can. Exercise that involves stretching, squatting or bending will probably not be tolerable for the first several weeks after surgery due to incisions. These movements may also be disruptive to the fat that is settling into place due to the weakness of the extracellular matrix that holds fat and blood cells in a supportive manner.

Post-operative instructions are discussed at length before buttocks augmentation surgery. To learn more about this procedure, call our Austin office at 512-450-1077.

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Sculpting A Better Butt—Learn About Your Options

Dr Trussler — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:37 +0000

Having a perky, curvy butt is important to many women, but not everyone is fortunate enough to have one naturally. Age, weight loss, and other factors can also change the shape of your body and leave you less happy with the appearance of your backside. If you’d like a fuller, perkier, or curvier butt, you have a few options. Here’s what you can consider:

Exercise

There are quite a few exercises that can target muscles in your butt, which can help you build tone and improve your appearance. Consider adding squats, lunges, or stairs to your workout to tone the muscles in your backside.

Lift

A buttock lift is a good solution for those who tighten and lift the buttocks without changing the size of the butt. This procedure will lift the butt and give it a more perky, youthful appearance while removing excess skin.

Fat Injection (Brazilian Butt Lift)

If you’d like to increase the size of your butt, a Brazilian butt lift (or fat injection) may be a good option. This procedure uses liposuction to remove extra fat from other areas of the body. The fat is then purified and injected into the buttock area. This procedure allows the doctor to create the desired shape while adding volume. As an added bonus, the patient will look slimmer in other areas of the body where the fat was removed.

Implants

If a patient doesn’t have enough extra fat in other areas of the body, silicone implants can be used to add volume and contour to the butt.

Buttock Lift and Auto Augmentation

In addition to the common options listed above, Dr. Trussler’s patients may consider a buttock lift and auto augmentation procedure. In this procedure, excess tissue that is removed during a buttock lift is strategically placed back in the buttocks to enhance volume while maintaining a perkier and curvier shape.

You deserve to look and feel your best—if you’d like to learn more about getting a younger, fuller, perkier looking backside, schedule a consultation with Dr. Andrew Trussler today.

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Is a Buttock Lift the Same as a “Brazilian Butt-Lift” or Buttock Augmentation?

Dr Trussler — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:40:22 +0000

Contouring of the buttock area has become an increasingly popular procedure in plastic surgery. Patients seeking buttock contouring typically want to reshape and enhance their buttocks.

This can be accomplished by multiple types of buttock contouring procedures

A buttock augmentation adds volume to the areas in the buttock lacking shape and projection.

Buttock augmentation is performed with fat injections, silicone implants, or with a auto-augmentation as part of a buttock lift.

This is the nebulous terminology in buttock contouring because fat injections to the buttock as part of a buttock augmentation is commonly referred to as a “Brazilian butt lift”.

Does it lift the buttock?

Not really! It can add projection and shape giving the buttock a “lifted” appearance, but really a true buttock lift is an excisional procedure where the sagging buttock is lifted and excess skin is removed through an arching upper buttock incision.

A buttock liftt can be combined with a buttock augmentation, which usually utilizes the tissue removed in the procedure.
The auto-augmentation creates an implant like mound of living buttock tissue which the lower skin is pulled up and over creating shape and volume to the buttock region.

This procedure is commonly performed with an outer thigh lift for the patient with excess sagging skin after significant weight loss. Dr. Trussler in Austin Texas can help to develop an individual contouring procedure for your buttock and outer thigh region.

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What is Buttock augmentation? Review of Techniques

Dr Trussler — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:10:57 +0000

What are the different types of buttock augmentation?

Buttock augmentation is becoming a very popular procedure in the United States. There are multiple types of buttock augmentation, which increase the volume and change the shape of the buttock: buttock implants, fat grafting to the buttocks, butt lift with autologous augmentation. Depending on the amount of surrounding tissue the procedure that is right for you and your goals will be selected. Buttock implants are typically solid silicone, which come in variable sizes and shapes, which are inserted through central incisions and placed under the muscle. Fat grafting uses fat harvested from mother regions of the body and is injected above and into the gluteal muscle to provide increased volume and shape. A butt lift uses an upper buttock incision to lift the buttock, tissue that is not removed can be rotated under the lift to provide increase volume to the buttock.

Am I good candidate for a buttock augmentation?

Buttock augmentation should only be done on healthy patients without significant medical problems. Depending on the type of augmentation recommended it would fit your body. Typically the thin patient without any surrounding fatty deposits would be a candidate for buttock implants. Buttock implant selection is limited in the United States and some buttock shapes are not optimal for implants as they usually lay under the muscle and provide upper outer projection. Fat grafting or a Brazilian Butt Lift is appropriate for the patent who does not desire an implant and has good skin tone who has enough surrounding fat to support enough fat for harvest. This can always be combined with an implant to provide shape to the buttock. A butt lift is appropriate for the patient who has lost a significant amount of weight and has excess skin around the buttock. This procedure will elevate the sagging butt but can flatten the buttock if not combined with an autologous buttock augmentation, which uses the tissue which would otherwise be removed to provide projection to the buttock.

Procedure technique

In general most buttock procedures should be performed in under general anesthesia in the operating room with the patient positioned laying on the their stomach. Repositioning during these operations is common secondary for the need to harvest fat from other areas

Buttock implants: general anesthesia with the patient in the prone position. Implants are placed through 1 or 2 incisions in the upper buttock crease. They are placed under the muscle or under the muscle lining or fascia depending on the shape of implant used. Complete coverage of the implant as well as implant position and sterile technique are a must.
Brazilian Butt Lift or Fat grafting to the buttock: fat is harvested from other areas of the patient, but most commonly in the areas around the buttock to help shape and define this region. The fat is then processed and washed depending on the technique used and then re-injected through small incisions into the buttock tissues.

Butt lift can be performed as an individual procedure or as part of a body lift. It is performed through an upper buttock incision extending from hip to hip and elevates the buttock tissue. The excess tissue can be rotated under the buttock skin to increase volume in this area.

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When a tummy tuck just doesn’t cut it: Options for buttock and outer thigh contouring.

Dr Trussler — Sat, 14 May 2011 21:22:08 +0000

The abdomen, hips and buttock are all affected by weight loss and the effects of pregnancy. The skin of these areas is designed to stretch to accommodate this extra volume, though if stretched to far permanent damage is incurred which can be visible in the form of stretch marks. These stretch marks are commonly located in only the lower abdomen in the multiparous women and in the woman who carries twins or greater, though through significant weight gain in pregnancy and more commonly in the patient who has lost significant amounts of weight after weight-loss or bariatric surgery, these areas of permanent skin damage can involve the outer and inner thighs and buttocks. A tummy tuck or abdominoplasty only addresses the abdominal skin excess and commonly only in the vertical direction, in that it pulls the skin down more than it tightens in the horizontal plane. Abdominoplasty is indicated in the majority of patients though if applied to the patient with excess outer thigh and buttock skin laxity an unsatisfactory result can be delivered. This result can be corrected with an adjunctive procedure such as an outer thigh lift or lateral thigh plasty and /or conversion to a circumferential body lift, though these patients should be identified before any procedure is performed and offered an extended abdominoplasty procedure. These extended procedures can take the form of a circumferential body lift for the patient with outer thigh excess, as well as buttock ptosis or a saggy backside, as well a fleur de lis abdominoplasty can be performed on the patient with mainly central abdominal skin excess both in the up and down direction and in the side to side direction. This can be identified through an above the belly button pinch test where if skin folds and excess outer abdominal skin is present, it will likely be unaddressed with just a standard adominoplasty. This horizontal skin excess is accentuated with central muscle tightening or midline fascial plication which brings extra skin into the central abdomen with this repair of the widened abdominal muscles (diastasis recti). The options for this central abdominal skin excess include a central excision at the time of an abdominoplasty or a fleur de lis abdominoplasty which is a very powerful and one stage procedure which contours the abdomen and waistline though leaves a central abdominal scar in combination with a lower abdominal scar, or a staged central abdominal skin excision can be performed. This is suitable for the patient with a pre-existing abdominal scar or a patient who is accepting of the central abdominal scar in place of the excess abdominal skin. If a patient has excess central upper abdominal skin which is not amenable to a standard abdominoplasty and who is not accepting of the central abdominal scar, then a staged outer abdominal skin removal or flank excision (silhouette lift) can be performed which contours the outer abdominal silhouette though leaves the patient with a scar along the outer abdomen. Both the fleur de lis or staged flank excision or silhouette lift can deliver very stunning changes to the abdominal contour. The main downside to both procedures include new scar placement on the abdomen and a more extensive and/or staged procedure, though the benefit can include a one staged procedure which can provide the result customized to each individual patients requests and needs. Scare care is provided by Dr. Trussler to help decrease the visibility of the scars and through proper care after the surgery and long term scar management these scars can be rendered imperceptible.

Extended abdominal procedures, including circumferential body lifts and central and outer abdominal contouring procedures are individual decisions and the recommended combinations should be discussed during the pre-operative evaluation. Each patient will leave the initial consultation with the reassurance that they will be able to achieve an improved abdominal figure and defined waistline.

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