Like every procedure, a Brazilian butt lift (BBL) has risks. Those risks haven’t stopped people from seeking out the fuller, more rounded buttocks that a BBL offers, but ultrasound technology can make it safer and give you better results. 

How Does a BBL Work?

Rounded, voluptuous curves continue to enjoy popularity, and many people have chosen a Brazilian butt lift to enhance their buttocks. A BBL can add lift and fullness for those who feel like their butts look flat, uneven, or sagging. A BBL is also considerably safer and has fewer complications than some other butt enhancement procedures such as implants. 

During a BBL, the surgeon will extract fat from your body using liposuction. You will need to have enough fat for the surgeon to harvest. This fat gets purified, and then the surgeon will inject it into the buttocks to enhance their volume. For the enhancement to last, the fat cells need to graft. This means they have to survive, settle in, and develop their own blood supply. Once established, fat cells live a very long time. 

During the process of injecting fat, the surgeon has to rely on their experience and skill to avoid major blood vessels and other important structures. Risks also include fat ending up where it shouldn’t or ending up where it can’t graft and survive. Fortunately, ultrasound technology, the same kind you know from seeing ultrasound images of babies, lets surgeons see inside the layers of skin and tissue. 

What Makes Ultrasound-Guided Butt Lifts Safer?

Even the best surgeons prefer to see what they’re doing, and surgeons who perform BBL procedures can achieve that with an ultrasound-guided Brazilian butt lift. This procedure works the same way, except that instead of just injecting the fat, the surgeon will first visualize the area and plan out their strategy. 

Just like when obstetricians use it to visualize a growing baby, ultrasound lets the surgeon look through the skin and see all the layers of tissue as well as where all important structures lay. As they inject the fat, the surgeon will use the ultrasound to guide them in placing the fat where it belongs. This means that the injections never come close to any important areas, which the surgeon can now see with ultrasound. 

Not only is this safer, but it also means that more fat has a chance to graft and survive, making your BBL results look better and last longer. Ultrasound-guided BBL overall makes sure that fat goes where it should and doesn’t end up in places that could be unsafe.