Procedure or surgery:
Increase of volume and elevation of the buttocks area.
Methods:
– Implant of special silicon for the buttocks area.
– Location under the major buttock muscle.
Objective:
– To increase and to elevate the buttocks area.
– At the present time, it is proven that buttocks prothesis don’t result neither in self-immune illnesses nor they increase the cancer incidence.
– This intervention doesn’t avoid neither to sit down nor to practice sports after having healed.
Pre-operative Preparation:
– Fast 8 hours in advance.
– To communicate possible medicine allergies.
– To go the day of the intervention with comfortable and wide, buttoning or zipper clothing.
– To take strip post operative.
Type of Anesthesia:
– General in most of the cases.
– It can sometimes be carried out by means of peridural anesthesia.
Incisions:
– We carry out a vertical inter-buttocks incision from 6 to 7 centimeters.
– They are generally placed under the major buttock muscle.
– The scar is usually almost invisible.
Effects and/or convalescence:
– Swelling during approximately two months.
– Ecchymosis (bruises) during fifteen days.
– Located changes of sensibility (they disappear in weeks)
– Restriction of physical activity, to sit down for 10 days.
– The use of an infantile float is recommended.
Complications:
– Post operative hemorrhages, not very frequent.
– Infection. Not very frequent.
– Fairly frequent seroma, requires surveillance for its drainage. It is managed with rest and it bands.
– Suture Dehiscence, points can open up because of efforts.
– Bad scaring, is the patient’s individual factor.
– Allocation of the prothesis as a consequence of an undue support (sitting).
Post operative instructions:
– Relative rest (do not to sit down) the first 10 days.
– Do not to carry out efforts the first 7 days.
– Use of post operative strip and pneumatic float.
– To take the recommended medication.
– Strict genital cleaning.
– Do not to take the sun at least in one month.
– Post operative ice during 48 hours.
Hospitalization:
– Generally ambulatory.
Results:
– Increase and elevation of the buttocks area according to the patient’s pleasure.
Final time:
– Two months