The Ultimate Guide to Butt Lift

Last fact-checked: 7 September 2020

With a butt lift abroad, you can enjoy a well-earned holiday before your surgery and achieve a firmer, perkier derriere, while saving more than 60% compared to prices back home. 

Find out how and where to receive this confidence-boosting cosmetic procedure at one of Medical Departures' quality-checked clinics in dozens of top medical tourism destinations around the world. 

What Is a Butt Lift?

Also known as a buttock lift or gluteoplasty, a butt lift is designed to transform your butt when it starts to sag–either because you’ve lost a lot of weight, it's become slacker as you've grown older or just because of genetics.

The procedure involves removing excess skin and fat through a surgical incision and liposuction.

Note: A butt lift as described herein is not to be confused with a Brazilian Butt Lift, which injects fat (usually harvested from another part of your body) to give you a fuller-looking behind; a similar procedure may also involve butt implants. 

Am I Suitable for a Butt Lift?

If you're seeking a lift due to weight loss, then your weight should have remained stable for around 12 months before you consider the procedure.

Butt Lift Before and After – Anything I Should Know?

It is best if you don’t smoke, or if you do, give up for six weeks before the procedure, as smoking interferes with the healing process. Also, eat healthily–nourishing your body with vitamins and proteins will also help you to heal.

The results from a butt lift are long-lasting, but if your weight fluctuates a lot, or you become pregnant, this may affect the long-term results. Aging will eventually take its toll as well. You can help prolong the results by maintaining a healthy diet and exercise regime.

How Long Does the Butt Lift Procedure Take?

The buttock lift procedure can take between three and six hours, depending on how much skin and fat needs to be removed, and what method our surgeon chooses to use.

General anesthesia is usually used, but you may be given a combination of local anaesthesia and sedation.

When you wake from the procedure you may find surgical drains are in place to remove fluid, and you may be wearing a compression garment.

What Is the Butt Lift Procedure Recovery Time?

Once the anesthetic has worn off, you may feel some pain and you will be swollen and red for some weeks or months after the surgery. You will be discharged as soon as you are comfortable moving around and walking.

It usually takes two or three weeks before you will feel able to continue with everyday activities. It is advisable not to do anything too strenuous, including lifting, for at least a month after surgery.

Is the Quality of Butt Lift Surgery Abroad? Is the Same as Back Home?

You can expect the clinical quality in the best international clinics oni par with what you would experience in countries like the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. However, it is always important to make sure you book in with a surgeon who is qualified and experienced in this particular area, which normally requires a little background research.

Medical Departures background checks all our doctors, completing criminal and legal checks, as well as verifying qualifications, experience and professional registrations and memberships. We also provide real patient reviews of their butt lift surgery, as well as high-definition clinic photos and virtual tours to help you reach a decision on whether a particular surgeon is right for you.

Get started now by checking out these select facilities that we've partnered with offering gluteoplasty:

• Yanhee Hospital Health & Beauty (Bangkok, Thailand)
• Hospital de la Familia (Mexicali, Mexico)
• Smart International Aesthetic Glojas Health Clinic (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

What About Butt Lift Prices Abroad?

Butt lifts cost considerably less if you have the procedure performed abroad; it isn’t unusual to realize savings between 50% and 80% compared to the prices at home, depending on the country you elect to have your procedure.

In the United States, prices are around an average of $13,500. This is compared to:

• Mexico Butt Lift prices: $5,600
• Thailand butt lift prices: $3,700
• Philippines butt lift prices: $2,600

Getting Started with Medical Departures

Click through to explore the destinations and clinic listing above. You can also access our full list of global butt lift providers here. 

Connect with us here to book your free appointment and start planning your money-saving trip abroad with Medical Departures. Or if you have selected your clinic and are ready to schedule your appointment, you can do so right here any time of the day or night, at no charge to you.

Sources:

Cherney, Kristeen, Ph.D. Everything You Need to Know About the Brazilian Butt-Lift (Fat Transfer) Procedure. Healthline. 15 June 2019. https://www.healthline.com/health/brazilian-butt-lift

Nakeisha, Cambell. Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj, and More Celebrities Whose Butts Have Tripled in Size Over Time. InTouch. 2 June 2017. https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/celebrities-butt-implants-133713/

Buttock Lift. Mayo Clinic. Website accessed: 7 September 2020. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/buttock-lift/about/pac-20393277

Liposuction. Mayo Clinic. Website accessed: 7 September 2020.  https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/liposuction/about/pac-20384586