The decision to have buttock augmentation or butt lift surgery is extremely personal and one you need to make yourself. You should determine if the benefits will achieve your goals and the risks and potential complications are acceptable.

You will be asked to sign consent forms to ensure that you fully understand the procedure and any butt augmentation risks and potential complications.

Risks of butt augmentation with butt implants:

  • Infection
  • Bleeding
  • Opening of the incisions with implant exposed requiring removal
  • Scarring
  • Nerve damage
  • Firmness
  • Implant rupture
  • Implant migration
  • Fluid accumulation (seroma)
  • Pressure on your sciatic nerve
  • Anesthesia risks

Risks of buttocks augmentation with fat transfer:

  • Excessive loss of blood
  • Blood clots
  • Bruising
  • Deep vein thrombosis, cardiac and pulmonary complications
  • Possibility of revisional surgery
  • Numbness and pain
  • Fat embolism, injection of fat into the bloodstream that causes inflammation in the lungs
  • Infection
  • Fluid shifts and lidocaine toxicity
  • Complications of liposuction
  • Complications of anesthesia
  • Swelling and bruising
  • Asymmetry
  • Possible need for a revision surgery at a later date
  • Fatty tissue found deep in the skin might die (fat necrosis)
  • Anesthesia risks
  • Oil cyst
  • Hematoma
  • Stretch marks
  • Cellulite

Prior to your surgery, these risks and others will be discussed with you. It is important that you ask Dr. Bailey, his staff, or surgical staff, any questions that you have at that time.