A Sculptra Butt Lift differs from a regular Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) in that it does not require general anesthesia, surgery or any post-surgical downtime. 

With a regular, surgical Brazilian Buttock Lift, fat is surgically taken from your body and placed in your buttocks under general anesthesia in an operating room.

A Sculptra Buttock Lift does not involve any surgery whatsoever. Fat is not removed from your body and the procedure is done at the med spa or at a medical office, not in an operating room. The Sculptra Butt Lift procedure is relatively painless and there is no risk of death or ugly scarring.

A Sculptra Buttock Lift only involves injections, similar to filler injections. The injections are done with a cannula so there is minimal to no bruising or bleeding. Additionally, the Sculptra product is placed in the dermis, not deep in the buttocks, so there is no risk of clogging major vessels. A Sculptra Butt Lift is a relatively safe procedure when compared to a surgical Brazilian Butt Lift. Regular, surgical Brazilian Butt Lifts can cause fat embolisms blocking major arteries which can cause major health problems and even death. Because a Sculptra Butt Lift doesn't involve any fat transfers, the risk of a fat embolism with a Sculptra Butt Lift doesn't exist.

A Sculptra Buttock Lift is a relatively painless, effective, and safe med spa or office procedure not involving surgery, scars, general anesthesia, fat embolism risks or significant downtime.

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Sculptra Buttock Lifts are done in sessions. Each session will require a certain number of Sculptra vials injected into each buttock with a cannula. Numbing cream and injectable lidocaine is available for the entry points. Cannulas are blunt, not sharp, instruments that do not cut through the tissues or vessels and therefore do not hurt. You may feel pressure or an odd sensation as the cannula is inserted but because they are not sharp instruments there is no cutting or pain involved.

Typically most patients with buttock volume depletion or buttock cellulite require 2 to 8 vials per session, which is 1 to 4 vials per butt cheek. For those wanting a lot of buttock volume, 10 or more total vials may be required.

For results to last 2 years, you'll need a minimum of 3 sessions, each session performed  6 weeks apart.

The number of sessions and the number of vials you will need will depend on several factors:

• Your desired buttock volume - how big you want your butt to look
• Your skin quality - the amount of skin sagginess and dimpling that you have
• Your age
• Your body's ability to make collagen
• How fast you metabolize and get rid of the Sculptra product
  

The Take-Home Message

A Sculptra Buttock Lift is a relatively painless, effective, and safe med spa or office procedure not involving surgery, scars, general anesthesia, fat embolism risks or significant downtime.

Additionally, because Sculptra is a powerful collagen stimulator that works with your body's dermal tissues to help revitalize collagen production and help restore your skin's inner structure and volume, it can be used almost anywhere in the body to create volume or treat crepey, wrinkly and sagging skin.