There are patients with little adipose panniculus with a small tail, in whom liposuction and gluteal lipoinjection cannot be performed. Tail surgery with a prosthesis or gluteoplasty would be indicated in these patients.
Patients with small tails, which are evident at all times. It may be due to little fat on the tail or a hypoplastic muscle. In these patients, prosthetic tail augmentation surgery is the most indicated.
The plastic surgeon will examine your tail, evaluate the size of your hips and the width of your buttocks. He will ask you how big you want your buttocks.
You must remember that prosthetic gluteoplasty has excellent results, if you do not have deformities in the skin of your buttocks.
It is performed in an operating room. This surgery is performed under general anesthesia. It is performed through an 8 cm incision in the intergluteal region, which allows the gluteal implants to be inserted under the muscle. Then the muscle is closed and the skin is sutured.
The gluteal implants used are silicone, with a useful life of 10 to 15 years. Annual checks with your plastic surgeon are recommended to assess the integrity of the implants.
Bleeding, infection, wound opening, prosthetic exposure, abscess, sepsis, death.