How Is a Brazilian Butt Lift Done?

By Millicent Odunze, M.D., About.com Guide

Updated October 01, 2011

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A Brazilian Butt Lift is technically known as a gluteoplasty. The area where the additional fat is desired is outlined with a surgical marker. Your surgeon will also mark the incision sites through which the fat will be injected. The incisions are small (approximately 2 to 3 millimeters in length), about the size of a grain of rice.

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• Patient Is Marked for Fat Transfer to the Buttocks
• Anesthesia Is Administered
• The Harvest Site and the Buttocks Are Prepped for Surgery
• Incisions Are Made at the Harvest Site(s) and the Buttocks Area
• Tumescent Fluid Is Injected into the Harvest and Donor Sites
• The Fat Is Harvested from the Donor Site(s)
• Fat Is Transferred into Large Syringes
• The fat Is Transferred to the Buttocks
• Incisions Are Closed with Sutures

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