Racy title, I know. But today I was reading through Yahoo news, and saw the headline, “NC woman charged with buttock injection gone bad.” And I thought, wasn’t that the case in Florida? So I clicked on the link and saw this is truly another person injecting random things into people’s bottoms.
oh my.
They don’t know what this person was injecting, but being a foreign substance, it 1. got infected and 2. the body didn’t like it so it spit it out.
There are more and more of these cases popping up: a NY woman injecting free silicone, the Florida injections of superglue, tire sealant, and cement. I don’t have a lot of patients seeking to enhance their bottoms. If you want a larger or curvier bottom, the best way in my opinion to get more curve is to 1. take down the surrounding areas like the love handles and outer thighs using liposuction, to help define the buttock area more, and 2. fat graft into the buttock to give more volume. (This is a surgical procedure, and in my view should be done by a board-certified plastic surgeon well versed in liposuction and fat grafting.)
I cringe when I read these stories. I get this hotel room, backroom injections are cheaper. But are they? When you get infections and ER visits and operations to try to fix things… and the likely irreversible scarring and disfigurement which comes with it… I don’t understand. In this age of computers and information, please do your homework. 
- Safe surgeon. Look at their credentials and training. Research them.
- Safe technique and substance. Research it. Free silicone has issues which are well known. And who would ever think cement and tire sealant are good things to inject?
- Safe place. When doing a large scale injection, you need sterile technique. Otherwise you can get infections.