Last month, the ‘BBL Task Force,’ a joint initiative between board-certified plastic surgeons across the world, issued a public warning towards the dangers of the Brazilian Butt Lift. The task force found that as many as 1 in 3,000 patients will die during the procedure due to surgical malpractice
“It is important to avoid the area beneath the muscle due to the presence of large blood vessels,” shares Dr. Patrick Hsu.
Together with Dr. Kendall Roehl, Dr. Patrick Hsu has done many initiatives to educate patients in the city of Houston and beyond on the potential benefits and risks from BBL and other elective cosmetic procedures.
“It’s important that patients consult with a plastic surgeon who is board-certified,” adds Dr. Kendall Roehl. “Cost-cutting surgeries like the Brazilian Butt Lift can leave patients vulnerable to a host of complications and multiple revisional surgeries.”
Dr. Patrick Hsu on ABC 13
As a response to the Task Force’s warning, Houston’s ABC 13 caught up with Dr. Patrick Hsu at Memorial Plastic Surgery’s Houston office to discuss the dangers of these often unsupervised practices.
To read the full report issued by The Multi-Society Task Force for Safety in Gluteal Fat Grafting, click here.
Avoiding the Worst
While there will always be patients seeking cheaper and less-invasive alternatives to a Brazilian Butt Lift, there is not enough data at this time that can adequately support butt enhancements through the use of dermal fillers.
To indeed avoid the worst, it is best to consult a board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in the Brazilian Butt Lift and treatments such as dermal fillers. The level of understanding from having spent years performing both can go a long way in determining what’s best for you.
Under the guidance of the right plastic surgeon and intensive care, enhancements from tried and tested plastic surgery procedures such as the Brazilian Butt Lift can leave you with satisfying and life-changing results.
Video Transcript
ILONA CARSON:
A lot of things can go wrong on the operating table, but the Brazilian Butt Lift is the most deadly cosmetic procedure.
GINA GASTON:
Yes, just last week a group of plastic surgeons issued a warning about the surgery, finding as many as 1 in 3,000 patients die during a BBL. And now a Houston plastic surgeon is taking the warning a step further. Now, this procedure combines liposuction with fat grafting, meaning it sucks out fat from one place where you don’t want it, and doctors then inject it into your behind for a look a lot like a Kardashian. BBLs make up more than seventy-percent (70%) of Dr. Patrick Hsu’s business at Memorial Plastic Surgery. But a bigger backside doesn’t come cheap and can cost on average between $5,000 and $12,000. Tonight, Dr. Hsu is warning you that you shouldn’t be tempted by any of those cut-rate alternatives to surgery like illegal injections.
PATRICK HSU:
There are individuals- they’re not even physicians and doctors- who are cruising around all of the major cities, and they are doing these procedures in a hotel room, in a basement, and they are injecting people with either Fix-a-Flat, silicone. I mean, there are all sorts of substances being injected into the body in order to try to enhance the buttocks. What happens is these patients wind up with either skin necrosis, massive infections, or massive deformities.
GINA GASTON:
Not the place to try and save money. Dr. Hsu says it is up to every patient to do their homework on credentials and technique. Celeste spent a year researching board-certified plastic surgeons before opting for the surgery.
CELESTE:
It’s your life on the line, so you have to be sure that who you’re going with, you know, is an expert in the field, because dying? It’s not worth it.
