BBL

00:00:08.141 --> 00:00:12.579 BBL or BBA, but BBL is the most common thing you see in the media, 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:14.010 which is Brazilian Butt Lift, 00:00:14.114 --> 00:00:17.130 and it's a way to lift the butt by injecting fat. 00:00:17.200 --> 00:00:20.988 You do liposuction, you take that fat and you inject it. 00:00:21.054 --> 00:00:22.489 Now does it lift? 00:00:22.556 --> 00:00:23.557 Not really. 00:00:23.757 --> 00:00:28.095 Just inflating something inflates but doesn't lift necessarily. 00:00:30.130 --> 00:00:34.434 I think the actual correct acronym or abbreviation is BBA, 00:00:34.501 --> 00:00:36.203 like Brazilian Buttock Augmentation. 00:00:36.270 --> 00:00:41.690 Buttock augmentation using the Brazilian technique is very common and very popular. 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:43.177 It's a great surgery. 00:00:43.710 --> 00:00:49.583 It has had a lot of bad media and some complications because, 00:00:49.650 --> 00:00:54.655 first of all, the technique was done, and the surgery is performed in hotels 00:00:54.855 --> 00:00:56.323 in different countries 00:00:56.480 --> 00:00:58.770 where there are people who are not plastic surgeons. 00:00:58.836 --> 00:01:00.010 It's really hard to fix. 00:01:00.080 --> 00:01:04.364 A BBL that is done improperly is very difficult to fix. 00:01:06.066 --> 00:01:08.602 I've seen patients from all over the world 00:01:08.902 --> 00:01:11.438 who've had fat grafting injected in weird places 00:01:11.505 --> 00:01:13.841 and lumpy, like all just up top. 00:01:14.508 --> 00:01:17.211 Now I have to go and liposuction the butt, take that fat, 00:01:17.444 --> 00:01:20.080 and try to fix it, inject it in different areas, 00:01:20.814 --> 00:01:23.217 and try to tighten that skin that has been stretched out. 00:01:23.283 --> 00:01:24.330 It's not easy to do. 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.019 You can customize every BBL. 00:01:27.354 --> 00:01:32.359 You can fill in the hip dips and give patients more of a rounder hip. 00:01:32.926 --> 00:01:34.928 Sometimes they want more of an athletic look, 00:01:34.995 --> 00:01:37.664 where you inject it more in the center without going wide. 00:01:38.665 --> 00:01:41.935 That's one way to make it more masculine and more feminine. 00:01:42.302 --> 00:01:45.372 The more masculine athletic posture versus the more feminine. 00:01:47.274 --> 00:01:49.890 I would say I don't do every Brazilian Butt Lift the same either. 00:01:50.244 --> 00:01:52.212 This is real plastic surgery. 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.915 Good candidates for Brazilian buttock lift and augmentation. 00:01:55.315 --> 00:01:56.753 Anybody who has enough fat 00:01:56.953 --> 00:01:59.820 and who wants to increase or change the shape of their buttock, 00:02:00.087 --> 00:02:02.050 it is pretty straightforward and simple. 00:02:02.116 --> 00:02:03.991 You want to go to someone who has a good eye 00:02:04.057 --> 00:02:06.960 for not just who is going to over-inject. 00:02:07.828 --> 00:02:10.880 Asking the right questions about any plastic surgery procedure 00:02:10.946 --> 00:02:12.065 is really critical. 00:02:12.132 --> 00:02:13.690 The recovery itself is pretty easy. 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:16.770 You want to stay off of it for 2 to 4 weeks. 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:20.040 There's a big range, I try to get my patients to not put 00:02:20.107 --> 00:02:22.782 pressure on it or sit on it for 3 to 4 weeks, 00:02:22.982 --> 00:02:28.248 so that the fat has its best opportunity to graft in around that spongy tissue. 00:02:28.315 --> 00:02:31.952 The swelling from the liposuction tends to go down for the most part by a month, 00:02:32.953 --> 00:02:35.956 so it's a little bit easier if you're just doing liposuction and a BBL. 00:02:36.156 --> 00:02:37.591 The recovery is 3 to 4 weeks. 00:02:37.991 --> 00:02:40.294 This is not a factory, and it's your body, 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:43.931 and you should not be going to put yourself in jeopardy or your health 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:48.650 or your long-term health or your life in jeopardy by going to a factory place. 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:51.905 That's not where you know if the surgeon is even a real plastic surgeon 00:02:51.972 --> 00:02:54.741 or any surgeon, much less a plastic surgeon. 00:02:54.808 --> 00:02:58.045 Find a plastic surgeon who is going to help you stay 00:02:58.111 --> 00:03:02.583 in the right spot in that pendulum and also get your best result 00:03:02.649 --> 00:03:04.996 that is going to last you long-term, so that you do not have to come back 00:03:05.062 --> 00:03:06.353 and need another surgery for.