Butt Augmentation
Balanced, natural curves with personalised contouring.
Op. Dr. Alperen Tekin · FEBOPRAS · TPRECD Member
- Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery Specialist
- TPRECD Member
- FEBOPRAS — European Board
- Personalised Planning
- Natural Results
Butt Augmentation: Volume, Proportion and Safety
Buttock augmentation adds volume and improves the waist-to-hip proportion, most often using the person’s own fat taken from the abdomen, waist or back. Because the tissue is your own, the feel and appearance are natural.
This is also a procedure where technique matters more than in most: safety depends on placing fat in the correct plane rather than into deep muscle. That single point is worth asking any surgeon about directly.
What Is Butt Augmentation?
Buttock augmentation increases volume and reshapes the contour. Two routes exist: transferring the person’s own fat, or placing an implant.
Fat transfer is the more common approach and offers a double benefit — the donor area is slimmed while the buttock is filled, which sharpens the waist-to-hip proportion. The transferred tissue is your own, so it feels natural.
One characteristic matters for expectations: a proportion of the transferred fat is reabsorbed over the first months. This is expected and planning accounts for it. What survives then behaves like the rest of your fat — changing with weight gain and loss. Preserving the result therefore depends on weight stability.
Who Is a Suitable Candidate?
- Adequate fat reserve in a donor area — the main limiting factor
- Weight stable for a period
- General health suitable for surgery
- Not smoking, or willing to stop before surgery
- Able to accommodate the sitting restriction afterwards
- Realistic expectations, set from your own frame rather than from images
In very slim people without sufficient fat to harvest, fat transfer may not be feasible; this is assessed at examination and said plainly rather than worked around.
How Is the Operation Performed?
- Marking: Donor areas and the intended contour are drawn with you standing.
- Anaesthesia: General.
- Harvest: Fat is removed from the abdomen, waist, back or thighs using liposuction — this is where the donor area slims.
- Processing: The harvested fat is prepared so that intact fat cells are what gets transferred.
- Transfer: Fat is placed in small amounts across multiple layers within the subcutaneous plane, so each portion sits close to a blood supply and can survive. It is not placed into deep muscle — this is the central safety principle of the operation.
- Closure: Access points are a few millimetres.
A compression garment is fitted for the donor areas.
Risks and Side Effects
- Bleeding, infection and anaesthetic risks, as with any operation
- Uneven take: Fat is reabsorbed at different rates, so contour irregularity or asymmetry can occur
- Fat necrosis: Areas of transferred fat that do not survive can form firm lumps
- Donor-area irregularity: Where fat was harvested
- Prolonged swelling: Expected in both areas
- Altered sensation: Usually temporary
The most serious documented risk of this operation relates to fat being placed in the wrong plane. Placing it within the subcutaneous layer rather than into deep muscle is what avoids it — which is why the technique used, and who is using it, is a fair question to ask.
Factors Affecting the Cost
Costs vary from person to person. The determining factors are:
- How many donor areas are treated and how much fat is harvested
- Whether fat transfer or an implant is planned
- Whether additional contouring is combined in the same session
- Type of anaesthesia and length of hospital stay
- Compression garments, follow-up and aftercare
In line with health regulations, pricing information is not published on this page. An individual assessment is made at consultation.
Fat Transfer or Implant?
There are two routes to increasing buttock volume, and the choice depends largely on the person’s available fat reserve.
- Fat transfer: Fat taken from areas such as the abdomen, waist and back is processed and transferred. It offers a double benefit: the donor area is slimmed while the buttock is filled, sharpening the waist-to-hip proportion. Because the tissue is your own, feel and appearance are natural.
- Implant: Considered where there is insufficient fat reserve. The buttock is a mobile, load-bearing area, so planning and follow-up have distinct characteristics.
What to know about fat transfer: a proportion of the transferred fat is reabsorbed in the first months. This is expected and planning accounts for it. The portion that survives then behaves like your own fat tissue — changing with weight gain and loss. Preserving the result therefore depends on weight stability.
In very slim people without adequate fat reserve, fat transfer may not be suitable; this is assessed at examination.
What Are Hip Dips?
The inward hollow at the side of the hip, over the bone, is popularly called a hip dip. Although social media presents it as a flaw, it is worth being clear first:
This is not a defect but an anatomical feature. The depth of the hollow is determined by the shape of the pelvis, the position of the upper thigh bone and the muscle structure — that is, largely by bony architecture.
The practical consequences:
- It does not close completely with exercise. Strengthening the gluteal muscles can soften the appearance but does not change the bone structure.
- It is unrelated to weight loss. It can be prominent in very slim people too.
- It can be softened with fat transfer. Targeted volume added to the hollow can make the transition rounder.
The measure when deciding should be your own complaint, not images on social media. This hollow is a very common anatomical variation.
Sitting and Daily Life Afterwards
The most demanding aspect of volume procedures in this area is not the operation but the restriction on sitting.
The reason: for transferred fat to survive it must develop a blood supply in its new location. Direct pressure disrupts that process and increases the proportion reabsorbed.
- Early period: Sitting directly on the buttocks is avoided; lying face-down or on the side is preferred.
- Transition period: Sitting with a special cushion that transfers weight to the back of the thighs.
- Long journeys and desk work: Planned before surgery. Because of this restriction, return-to-work time can be longer in some occupations.
- Compression garment: Used regularly for swelling to settle and the donor area to conform.
The final result is assessed months later, once reabsorption is complete. The fuller look in the early period includes swelling and is misleading.
Travelling From Abroad for Surgery
Buttock procedures deserve particular care when planning travel, for two reasons: the sitting restriction afterwards, and the fact that safety here depends heavily on operative technique.
- Who is operating. Ask for the surgeon’s name and board certification in writing. This procedure has well-documented safety considerations, and the single most important one — placing fat in the correct plane rather than into deep muscle — depends entirely on the surgeon’s technique.
- The sitting restriction. You will not be able to sit normally for a period. A long flight home means hours of exactly the pressure you are meant to avoid, so the timing of your return is a medical decision.
- Length of stay. Set by your surgeon on medical grounds, not by your ticket.
- Flying and clot risk. Long flights soon after surgery raise the risk of blood clots.
- Complications after you return. Establish in advance who you contact and how quickly.
- Follow-up at home. Arrange before you travel.
- Your records. Leave with an operative note you can hand to any doctor.
If a package quotes a price and a flight date before anyone has assessed whether you have adequate fat reserve, that is information in itself.
Your Treatment Journey
From your first message to full recovery, we are with you.
First Contact
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Consultation & Planning
A personalised plan based on your expectations and examination findings.
Surgery
Your personalised procedure is performed comfortably under appropriate anaesthesia.
Recovery & Follow-up
We stay with you through regular check-ups at every step of recovery.
Op. Dr. Alperen Tekin
Specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. The goal: planning the most suitable result for your anatomy and expectations while preserving your natural look. Every option is discussed openly at your consultation, with a road map tailored to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Suitability is assessed together, based on your expectations, general health and examination findings.
After the first contact, a consultation and personalised planning follow; after surgery we monitor you with regular check-ups.
Recovery varies from person to person and with the scope of the procedure; a personal road map is clarified at your consultation.
Pricing is personalised according to the scope of the procedure; exact information is shared after consultation. Feel free to message us on WhatsApp with your first questions.
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