Surgical buttocks lift refers to the procedure where you remove skin surplus from the buttocks that appeared due to more excessive weight loss or with ageing because of the skin elasticity loss.
Together with skin surplus removal, this procedure also gives you the effect of buttocks lift.
CANDIDAES FOR THE PROCEDURE
Persons who have had significant weight loss and manage to keep their weight stable, as well as all the other persons who feel dissatisfied with drooping buttocks skin, are the candidates for this procedure.
PREPARATION FOR THE PROCEDURE
For surgical buttock lift it is necessary to following tests: complete blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, coagulogram, blood glucose levels, urea and creatinine concentration, complete urine tests and to record electrocardiogram (ECG) and, if it is necessary, do the internist examination. All these examinations can be done in Polyclinic Arcadia.
ADMISSION TO POLYCLINIC
Admission to polyclinic is possible during the morning hours on the day of surgery, or the evening before the procedure if it suits you better. Before the surgery, a surgeon is going to examine you once again and go through the surgery details together with you.
ANAESTHESIA
Buttock lift is usually performed under the general anaesthesia, but it can be performed under local anaesthesia too, depending on your agreement with the doctor.
PROCEDURE
There are more techniques for this procedure, but most frequently is used the one where the incision is performed in the gluteus crease, so that the scar after the surgery remains minimally visible.
During examination, our surgeon is going to recommend you the best options and tell you if this procedure should be combined with other procedures like buttock augmentation.
IMMEDIATE POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD
After buttocks lift, it is necessary to stay in or polyclinic for two days with strict bed rest. After that you leave for home care and with your discharge summary, you are going to get all the necessary instructions which you need to follow. It is required to avoid physical activity for two weeks after the surgery. Elastic jersey, which you will get immediately after the surgery, should be worn for the next month.
FINAL RESULT
Surgery result is visible immediately, but it takes some time for hematomas and swellings to disappear. Final result is visible after one month.
