Fatal "buttock augmentation"

In the mammalian world, the human buttocks are round and plump, and there may be no rival to the arse.

What does it mean to have nice buttocks? It means strong lower limbs that can give an advantage in the primitive hunting of the weak and the strong, which is probably the most original motivation for human aesthetics of the buttocks.

In modern society, strong and sturdy lower limbs do not necessarily give an advantage to survival, but this instinctive preference for buttocks has become an aesthetic culture that has never faded.

Some people sweat countless hours in the gym for their buttocks, and such perseverance and determination are encouraged. However, some people see buttocks as a dream but do not want to put in the effort to do so.

This is okay, modern medicine also has a way, breast augmentation surgery is heard about a lot, and buttock augmentation surgery is certainly also available, provided that do not be greedy cheap.

Beauty is a common need of people all over the world, regardless of gender and not regardless of nobility, because of the huge demand in the plastic surgery market, so there is often a black zone.

In 2006, an American woman, Venetie Wandell, was so eager to have full buttocks that she spent $15,000 to find a black market doctor to do a butt lift and buttock augmentation surgery, perhaps because she was so eager for buttocks that she didn't even ask what substances were injected into her body before the surgery.

Photo of Venetie before buttock augmentation

A female doctor of unknown origin injected Vernette with "soybean oil", and she felt her buttocks become stiff, followed by another person who injected her with silicone.

After the surgery was completed, Vineeti's buttocks did become large, but this large had gone beyond normal proportions and looked very deformed, and she gradually calmed down from her frenzy and realized that she had been cheated.

In order to warn those beauty-loving women like her, she wrote a book about her experience and what she saw in the black market of plastic surgery, exposing the lies and darkness of it all. It wasn't just the black market that Venetie found scary; some people had gone into a frenzy in their pursuit of beauty.

She says that among the clients of the black market for plastic surgery are many nurses, police officers, gospel singers, and other serious professionals who know that such procedures can go wrong but also choose this high-risk but cheap route to become beautiful and follow the crowd and please others, among other reasons.

What's even more chilling is that after the publication of Venetie's book, some of the readers not only did not wake up, but also expressed interest in this black market plastic surgery, begging Venetie to tell them where they can do it.

Vineet's huge buttocks

When we look at similar incidents, we always tend to condemn shady businessmen who are desperate for profit, but in the black market of plastic surgery, it is not that simple.

In 2011, a transgender woman (male to a female) in Florida, USA, falsely claimed to be a senior plastic surgeon and gave buttock augmentation surgery at a low price resulting in the death of a woman.

The reason was that the filling material she mixed contained strong glue, cement,nt, and tire repair adhesive, all of which sounded horrible, however, she herself underwent similar surgery and most of her clients were from the same transgender community as she was, who desired these feminine physical features.

Are these people who perform surgery for others at low cost really bad? Not necessarily, maybe they are just kidnapped by aesthetics and "silly and naive" at the same time.

According to the routine of ordinary articles, here we should say something like "there is nothing wrong with liking fuller buttocks" and "you should find a clinic or hospital with proper qualifications for plastic surgery", but these are all correct nonsense, things are not that simple.

Buttock augmentation is similar to breast augmentation, and there are two types of buttock augmentation in terms of filling materials: buttock augmentation with prosthesis and buttock augmentation with autologous fat, and most people mistakenly think that autologous fat filling is more safe and reliable.

In Latin America, where buttock augmentation is the most popular procedure, and Brazil is the representative, this procedure has an alias of "Brazilian Butt Lifts".

The so-called Brazilian Butt Lifts are a kind of plastic surgery in which fat from the abdomen or thighs is suctioned and injected into the buttocks.

The first is liposuction, which caused many deaths in the 1990s due to the overuse of lidocaine anesthetics, but today this risk has been reduced considerably.

Next are the complications associated with autologous fat injections, including seroma, cysts, fat necrosis, infection, and most fatally, fat embolism.

Fatty tissue that has been removed from the body

Fat embolism is simply the entry of free fat into the circulation through the blood vessels, which can cause death through mechanical obstruction of the pulmonary vascular system by macroscopic fat particles or by causing a systemic and pulmonary inflammatory response, and is the most serious complication of autologous fat transfer buttock surgery.

Specifically, there are two necessary conditions for fat embolism - venous injury and a high pressure state. Fat injection filling will inevitably cause a high-pressure state, so venous injury is the most critical influencing factor.

Some plastic surgeons do not know their patients' bodies well enough or inject fat into the muscles of the buttocks in pursuit of results, which can lead to an increased risk of fat embolism.

There is nothing inherently wrong with a Brazilian butt lift, but there is still a considerable risk of uncontrollable factors occurring during the procedure for a variety of reasons.

With the popularity of the buttock aesthetic in the West, the Brazilian butt lift became popular. In the 70s and 80s, soon after its birth, celebrities, stars, and aristocrats from all walks of life came to Brazil for buttock augmentation surgery.

Back then, saying "I'm going to Brazil for vacation" was probably the same as saying you were going to Brazil for a whole buttock lift. In the 21st century, plastic surgery is no longer a service that only the rich and famous can afford, and the demand for butt lift surgery in Brazil is increasing rapidly.

The growth rate in the United States reached 36% in 2014, and by 2017, approximately 20,300 Brazilian butt lifts were performed, while the number of deaths from the procedure continued unabated.

Combining data from various countries related to cosmetic plastic surgery, the mortality rate of the so-called Brazilian butt lift is as high as 3 per 1,000 operations, making it one of the most dangerous of all plastic surgery procedures.

Even so, there are still countless people who take the risk to become beautiful and sexy, and tragedies continue to occur. The most recent death occurred in December 2020, the so-called "Mexican Kardashian" model Jocelyn Kano, who was proud of her buttocks, but unexpectedly died after another surgery.

"Mexican Kardashian model Jocelyn Cano

The emergence of the Brazilian butt lift can be traced back to the legendary plastic surgeon Ivo Pitangu, who invented the procedure in the 1960s and has a high reputation in the plastic surgery field.

But Dr. Pitangu's original intention was to help people who were deformed by accidents. In 1961 a fire broke out in a circus tent in the Brazilian city of Niteroi, injuring hundreds of people, and he treated many of the victims at the time with plastic surgery, an experience that changed him and has kept him single-mindedly on the path of plastic surgery ever since.

Dr. Ivo Pithangu

He believes that the pain caused by a deformed appearance does not come from the appearance itself, but the confusion brought about by the dissonance between his true image and his self-perception; in other words, although plastic surgery fixes the appearance, it changes the heart.

From the phenomenon of buttock augmentation surgery, we can find that people's pursuit of buttocks and fall into madness is not an aesthetic or cultural problem, but precisely their psychological deformity, which is reflected in the buttocks in some regions and may be reflected in other parts in other regions.