Uberto Giovannini
Millennium Clinic, France
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Surgery Curr Res
Changes in aesthetics have made more patients request greater volume in their buttocks and hips. Buttock enlargement with lipoinjection is a procedure that has had a very high demand in last few years. Sometimes the fatty tissue migrate or is reabsorbed. The authors present their minimally invasive buttock lifting technique with suspension by Elasticum® associated with autologous adipose tissue transfer to increase the projection of the gluteal region. Elasticum® is an elastic suturing thread made of silicone and sheathed in polyester. It is specially designed for the suspension and traction of the tissues. Among the advantages of this technique are its simplicity, the fact that it produces minimized traumatic effects and pains, minimal scars. The procedure requires not only liposuction, but also purification of the fatty tissue thanks to the pure graft system. The PureGraft device (Cytori Therapeutics, San Diego, California, USA) is a new method that involves washing and filtering the fat to prepare the graft, in which the fat is obtained. To help the aesthetic outcome the adipose tissue in encircle with the Elasticum® and then a suspension of the gluteal area is done with a V vector. The tension of the Elasticum® and the fat injection is adapted to the characteristics of each patient. The authors believe that augmentation and restoration of the gluteal region volume can be achieved safely, precisely and reliably by lipotransfer associated with suspension with Elasticum®.
