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I always recommend my patients to be active after a Brazilian butt lift. You should stay in the area where you had the procedure done for at least 7 days to make sure that everything is going well, your pain...

Many of my patients come from other parts of the country and this is a common question they ask. The post operative instructions are as important as the surgery itself.  Remember that the fat that has been processed and reinjected...

If you survive the butt injection with silicone, the first thing you need to do is to thank God. Now, you need to understand that, even if you don’t develop a complication right away, it might happen years after the...

Silicone pneumonitis is closely associated with the silicone emboli syndrome discussed in the previous blog. Silicone pneumonitis is an inflammation of the lung. Injections of silicone in the buttocks have been associated with spillage of silicone in the alveolar space...

There are other options to manage silicone granulomas and complications associated with this product. Painful granulomas have been treated with the following products: 1. Steroids 2. Non-steroidal antiinflamatory drugs 3. Tetracycline 4. Immune modulating therapies Steroids have led to improvement...

Severe complications have been documented in different states across the country due to the injection of liquid silicone.  In 2007,performed an investigation of three patients that presented acute renal failure (kidney not working) after an injection of presumably silicone for...

Suppose you want to have your butt done and you have heard of a new product on the street... Such product supposedly requires minimal down time and you don’t need to have surgery. You contact an individual that you found...

The reaction of liquid silicone can be presented in different ways. For example, we know that not all the patients that have silicone injection have developed significant complications. It seems that when a high amount of silicone is injected, almost...