Cosmetic Question: I want larger buttocks but it is too expensive to have plastic surgery. What is wrong with liquid silicone injections? My hair dresser has a friend who will do it for me for under $2,000.
Cosmetic Answer:
People doing these injections insist they are doing nothing wrong. Sadly, that is either their reckless ignorance or – the typical response of any criminal to an accusation of misconduct, “Not my fault”.
The problem is that liquid silicone injections are illegal in the USA for a reason. We went through this in the 1950’s and 1960’s. They look fabulous at first, but they will cause you life-long problems. This is true whether you have them illegally in the US or legally in another country and come back here. Here’s why:
To start, liquid silicone is injected all though your buttock tissues. There is no one clump that can be removed. Next, the liquid silicone irritates all those tissues. Your body responds by hardening around the silicone. Your buttock gets rock hard, and it hurts. It may be inflamed – red, swollen and have draining. Now what to do? The only ‘”cure” is to cut off the buttock… not exactly what anyone wants to do to you.
Instead, you have to have multiple small excisions of particularly irritating areas of silicone.
Unfortunately, that’s not all. Illegal injections are done with industrial grade silicone – it is not pure and it is not sterile. This means you can get allergic reactions and severe infections. Again, the material is impossible to remove.
Now, being liquid, in addition to your buttock being rock hard and stiff and probably painful, inflamed and possibly infected, the liquid silicone doesn’t stay in place. It moves to new places in your body. You not only will have a buttock problem, but problems elsewhere, e.g. in your legs.
If you think having buttock fat transfer or buttock implants is expensive and has risks (and that is true), having silicone liquid injections will be more expensive, riskier and give you a life-long painful, unsightly problem.
The safest thing is to save up and have fat transfers or, if you can take 4-6 weeks off to recover, then soft solid silicone buttock implants are a better option. As we always recommend, see a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon. This is specialty surgery who will provide you with the best results.
We offer all cosmetic office and surgical procedures and cosmetic dermatology.
We have offices in Buckhead (Atlanta) and Alpharetta.
We personally answer our phones so it’s easy! Give us a call! 404.941-3200
For more information, search our blogs or go to www.realself.com – where Dr. Morgan regularly posts answers.
Copyright E Morgan July 2014