Buttock Implants
Instead of sitting and wishing for better, healthier buttocks, get your rear end in motion to learn about buttock augmentation and butt lift surgery. Afraid of fat redistribution? Is that why you've been sitting on your dream? Relax, stand up, and head to your surgeon's office to ask about butt lift implants. Gluteal augmentation happens the way breast augmentation does, but whereas the breasts don't need definition (ask the average guy), the buttocks do, thanks to gravity. Your surgeon will place buttock augmentation implants in your tailbone, with dissolvable stitches that will disappear while you're lying comfortably post-op at home. Some tips to make yours a happy ending:
- Follow your surgeon's instructions post-op and keep the bandages on two to three days post-butt lift surgery.
- Invest in several weight-distribution pillows and foam contour pillows for legs, head and back so you can lie comfortably.
- Don't throw on those cycling shorts until a month after butt augmentation surgery!
- Be careful--although buttock augmentation implants are solid silicone with no leaks, they may slip or become asymmetrical.
Have family members check the results, especially when you're wearing tight jeans! When someone tells you to get off your duff, you can say, "I did, that's why I'm lying down!"
Celebrity Plastic Surgery: Real or Fake?
Before you run to a plastic surgery center after reading the latest issue of GQ, Men's Health, Cosmo or Vogue, realize some basic truths about celebrity plastic surgery:
- Celebrities have millions of dollars and thousands of perks when they opt for cosmetic surgery--they can recover thanks to five-star spa care.
- Celebrity plastic surgery can go horribly wrong, and not just for Michael Jackson. Every other week, there are stories in the NATIONAL ENQUIRER, PEOPLE and on E! about celebrity plastic surgery disasters.
- Sometimes those looks are courtesy of photo retouching or photo manipulation. Very often the body on the cover of VANITY FAIR doesn't match the celebrity face.
- Celebrities don't look like stars all the time--again, witness the ENQUIRER with its pictures of celebrities sans makeup.
Hollywood sells the dream, and if you have a dream of owning Angelina Jolie's lips or Schwarzenegger's bod, remember that even the former Mr. Universe has reportedly been pumped up with cosmetic plastic surgery--but he also put himself through a fitness regime. When you opt for a celebrtiy plastic surgery procedure or choose a "surgeon to the stars," make sure you're in shape like Angelina, sans personal trainer and Beverly Hills gym, and that your face is a good "fit" for that massive kisser.
Before you start doing liposuction, hit the gym and change your personal routine so the change will last longer than most modern Hollywood marriages or careers. After all, as another celebrity quips, "Beauty fades, dumb is forever."
Breast Implants and Capsular Contracture
It hurts to wear a bra and despite the admiring looks you're getting, you just want to hide in a closet. Aren't breast enhancement and breast enlargement supposed to make you more confident? Your breasts may have become hard because of capsular contraction around breast implants after breast surgery. Scar tissue tightens around your new breast implants. How can your breast surgeon prevent capsular contraction?
- Some Breast augmentation experts think that placing breast implants closer to the breast wall will eliminate capsular contraction.
- Rounded breast implants under the tissue, sub-mammary, reduces the risk of capsular contracture by over half.
- Massage after breast surgery can help if you have soft silicone or saline implants.
- If you take Vitamin E, except two weeks before surgery, you may avoid capsular contracture.
- Textured implants over the muscle resist capsule contracture after breast augmentation.
Surgeons can treat the problem, should it occur, with antibiotics and/or a capsulectomy to remove the scar tissue. Your breast surgeon may not charge you for this corrective surgery. You don't want to hide away--you want to show off your new look. Some pre-planning can help you face the world happily.
Chin Implant Types
You hate leaks...gossip leaks, intel leaks, plot leaks, water leaks. You're afraid of silicone but you know the time has come to expand--not your chest, but your chin. You want chin implants. You were willing to spend a combined $23 million in 2004 with chin implant prices and surgeon's fees. Although chin augmentation has declined 41 percent in popularity from 2000 to 2004 (15,822 chin reduction and chin implant surgery procedures in 2004, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons), you still want a better chin. but do you risk mad cow disease or silicone leakage? Your chin implants could consist of:
- Bone grafts--they may be quickly reabsorbed and become infected, but they come from you
- Skin grafts--it's better if they don't come from you, since there's a high risk of absorption. You may be better off with chin implants from a cadaver or a family member.
- Infant and bovine collagen. This is primarily used in reconstructive surgery, so relax if you're afraid of baby surgeries, bovine hormones and mad cow. The baby cells usually come from the foreskin after circumcision, so you don't have to get into ethically tricky stem cell issues. Also, with bovine collagen, there's no evidence that mad cow disease can start in the skin.
- Silicone--Has the potential to leak, and hard implants fill out the skin, not the bone structure. However, silicone chin implants rarely cause chemical reactions.
- Hydroxyapatite Implants are made of porous coral that adheres strongly to the bone. Also available in an injectable filler.
- Injectable fillers--range from hyaluronic acid to bovine collagen to silicone (which the FDA hasn't approved for cosmetic use).
With some injections, the chin augmentation effects may be permanent. You're not limited to fears of silicone leakage, but consult with your doctor. Photos of you as you age or photos of you before and after an accident or trauma as well as an analysis of your physique will give your doctor clues as to which chin implant surgery is right for you. Now you can forget to be angry that your doctor leaked the plot of the season opener of "Desperate Housewives."
What Is the Brazilian Butt Lift?
If you think to lift your buttocks the Brazilian way, you do the samba in Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro at Carnevale, think again. The Brazilian butt lift, patented by "Extreme Makeover" celebrity Dr. Anthony Griffin, is the newest technique in butt augmentation for those who wish their rear end didn't droop. Not everyone can be J.Lo.
However, the Brazilian butt lift gives you the flat smooth curves you see in women on Brazilian beaches, and thanks to J.Lo, it's gaining in popularity. Your surgeon will take fat from your abs and chest, then inject it in the buttocks to flatten the bottom. She'll tighten weak muscles and loose skin. Voila, instant buttock augmentation, without a trip to South America. Now you're disappointed--you were looking forward to the samba. You can still buy that ticket to Brazil and pretend you're Jenny from the Beach.