Will a fat transfer to the hips last?

Hello,
Thanks for your question. Fat transfer to the hips can create long term results in most patients, but there are certain caveats. It is important to know that the fat that gets transferred during surgery may be lost by as much as 40%. The remaining cells will be what give you your results. Patients who are very active or dieting, will not get the results that they seek. The cells that get transplanted won't grow in number. They only get larger or smaller based on diet and exercise, just like the rest of the fat on your body. So if you decide to train for a marathon after surgery, you will just shrink the contents of the new transplanted cells, even though you have more fat cells on your hips compared to before surgery. We usually recommend 6 weeks without pressure on the area of fat transplantation or exercise to give the cells the best chance of surviving. We recommend the use of medium chain triglycerides in the diet especially before going to the gym to give the body an immediately useable source of calories to burn instead of burning the fat in the storage cells on the hips. We recommend minimal cardio, telling the patient to instead focus on high weight, low rep lifting exercise for the lower extremities.
Your goal of 2cm on each side should be fairly easy to achieve depending on how much fat you can inject into the skin. Use of skin moisturizer for several weeks on the hip skin keeps it supple to stretch better. Your final aesthetic outcome will be a combination of fat removal from the love handles and fat addition to the hips. This will remove the boxy appearance for sure!
Good luck,
Dr. Shah

Thank you for sharing! It's possible to achieve that sculpted hourglass look using your own fat that can be taken from other areas of the body such as the abdomen, lovehandles, or buttocks. Hip augmentation with your own fat allows you to get a natural more pleasing shape and contour to the hips by augmenting curves, correcting an imbalance or increasing prominence of the hips. Fat taken from the abdomen (stomach) can be used for this type of enhancement, so you get the benefit of reducing your stomach while you enhance your body’s contour and curves all without implants, which can be painful. Plus, since it is your own fat you can't be allergic to it and about 50% of the fat stays permanently where it was injected