What Are the Pros and Cons of Fat Transfer to Hips?

Many women who want an alluring hourglass figure are seeking plastic surgery to achieve their goal. Fat transfer to hips in NYC is a safe, minimally-invasive procedure that uses your own fat to add volume, improve curves, and create a more proportionate and attractive hip-to-waist ratio.

What Fat Transfer to Hips Involves

Fat transfer to the hips has two components: liposuction and fat grafting. The procedure involves removing excess fat from areas where it is abundant and using it to improve the size and shape of the hips.

NYC plastic surgeons use minimally-invasive technologies such as Smartlipo, BodyTite, and VASERlipo to perform liposuction to harvest fat from areas of the body with excess fat such as the abdomen, thighs, or flanks. The fat is gently suctioned out using a small cannula, which preserves the viability of the fat cells for transfer. After the fat is purified, it is injected into specific areas of the hips to provide the desired augmentation. Purified fat that has been injected into the body develops a new blood supply, producing results that last. The fat is carefully injected in multiple layers to create a natural and balanced outcome.

By adding volume, improving curves, and creating a more proportionate and attractive hip-to-waist ratio, fat transfer to hips results in a curvier and more feminine figure.

Pros of Fat Transfer

• Excellent body contouring outcomes: As it combines liposuction and fat grafting, the procedure provides great body contouring results. Liposuction helps to tone and provide definition to areas where there is extra fat, such the thighs or the belly. By adding volume and enhancing the hips, fat transfer provides you with a shapely, attractive body.

• Natural tissue: As the treatment uses no artificial fillers and contours, enhances, and reshapes your body using your own fat, risk of complications is reduced.

• Rapid recovery: Since fat transfer involves just small incisions, recovery is usually fast.

Cons

• Limited augmentation: The amount of fat that a person has available in their body is what determines how much fat transfer can improve their body contour. You may need to have plastic surgery again to add more volume, though this will depend once more on the amount of fat that can be transferred.

• Fat survival concerns: Not all of the transferred fat will survive in the long term. Typically, around 30% of the transferred fat may be lost over time. As your body naturally absorbs some of the fat during the year following the surgery, you might consider additional fat grafting procedures to help maintain your desired results.

• Does not address sagging: Adding volume by injecting fat to a region does not address sagging. Patients who experience some sagging may therefore gain from other treatments, such as a buttock lift to remove extra, sagging skin and achieve a perkier appearance.

Fat transfer to the hips in NYC is performed by qualified plastic surgeons with expertise in body contouring and fat grafting techniques. An expert will evaluate your goals and suitability for the procedure, discuss the risks and benefits, and create a customized treatment plan to help you achieve your desired results. Scheduling regular follow-up appointments with your plastic surgeon can provide guidance on the best way to preserve and enhance your outcomes.