Gluteal auto-augmentation is a procedure that aims to restore the projection and roundness of the buttocks by using the patient’s tissues.

It is suitable for patients who have suffered massive weight loss, due to which they had a lower body lift. With this lift, after removing excess skin and tissue from the lower back and lifting the buttocks, it still looks flat and relaxed, so it needs to restore volume.

What Is Gluteal Auto-augmentation?

A strip of extra skin between the lower back and the upper buttocks is removed during the lower body lift. In gluteal auto-augmentation, the skin is removed from this strip, but the fat remains attached to the vessels that supply it with blood and then rotates in the required direction and are placed in a “pocket” above the gluteal muscles. Thus, this tissue functions as a kind of natural gluteal implant. In that way, the convexity and roundness of the buttocks can be restored by using tissue that would otherwise be discarded. In addition, this procedure has good persistence.

What Happens During The Operation?

The patient is placed in an abdominal position. The operation begins with marking the areas of the incisions and the areas of fat removal. The areas of excess tissue are marked to look like two “ellipses”. These ellipses are called “flap”.

That is followed by removing the skin above the lamp and their separation and lifting from the underlying muscles. They are raised so that they can rotate without disturbing their blood supply.

The surgeon then makes two pockets under the skin. But above the muscles of the buttocks, the lamp is rotated and placed in these pockets and sewn. Drains are placed, and then the skin is closed, usually with degradable sutures, skin glue, and patches.

The operation ends with the placement of compression underwear.

Most often, the first night after the operation, the patient spends in the hospital.

Then you will be placed in compression underwear to protect the skin. Depending on your preferences, you can either go home or stay overnight in the hospital.

What Are The Risks Of This Operation?

This operation, like any other, carries very minimal risks such as:

  • Bleeding;
  • Infection;
  • unsatisfactory result;
  • wound defect;
  • hypertrophic scar or keloid.

How Is The Recovery Going?

The doctor will determine when the drains will be removed and may remain for several days. Bathing can usually begin on the 10th day after surgery. In the early postoperative period, you may have some discomfort, which generally resembles muscle tension after a workout, but this is usually not painful.

Apart from that, you will not bend your waist much, and you will have to refrain from this for a few weeks until the tissues heal and stretch. You should change your weight often and use cushioned seats not to put too much weight on the lamp. In the first six weeks, compression underwear is worn to reduce swelling and improve results. In addition, exercise is prohibited for the first six weeks. You can expect the node to decrease in the next few months slowly.

In all cases, you will receive complete and detailed instructions on everything you should and should not do to achieve the best possible recovery.

Online check-ups will be arranged with your doctor, usually on the 14th, first, third and sixth months.

What Is The Cost Of This Procedure?

Prices are formed individually after an online consultation and depending on the patient’s personal needs. Once we know what you want, you will receive our offer within 24 hours. You also can check our PRICE LIST.

How do we work

Once you have made contact with us, we will organize a free video consultation with the surgeon we believe is best suited for your particular situation.

This consultation will be within 5 days of your request. Prior to the video consultation, we will ask you to fill out a questionnaire about your medical history and send photos of the problematic areas. 

If necessary during the video consultation your doctor will advise you to take additional photos of the problematic areas and suggestions for the angle from which to take photos.

This consultation will be combined with a detailed discussion about your wishes and the possibilities for achieving them.  We will discuss with you the expected results, possible risks and any other issues that you might be concerned about.

We advise you to make a list of all the questions you may want to ask concerning the procedure before the actual consultation. After the official request to us, and if you wish, we can arrange a meeting for you with our representative in London.

Within 24 hours of the video consultation, we will send you a costing describing the price of the procedure and the needed length of stay in Bulgaria. In the costing there will also be preferential prices offered for our partner hotels with which we work and for which we can guarantee the quality and comfort. 

You will then have 3-4 days of time to reflect, and give us your decision.

If you decide to proceed and agree with all terms and conditions , you will have 48 hours within which you must prepay 30% of the total amount of the procedure. This amount is paid directly to the clinic where your procedure will be performed and thereby you will have a reserved date and time for your procedure and a room in the hotel you have chosen. The remaining balance has to be paid by the day before the procedure itself after conducting the preliminary examination in the clinic.

If you decide or need to cancel the procedure, this must be done at least 30 days before the date of your flight in order to be able to trigger a process for returning your deposit.  

If you decide to cancel our services within the last 30 days before your flight, you must have a good reason for doing so (supported by evidence) in order to take your money back. If you cancel it within these 30 days and the reason is acceptable, your money will be returned, but you will be suspended 50 euro for an administrative fee. If you wish to change the date of the procedure, this can happen at least 30 days before.

If you wish, we can also arrange your travel from your home to the airport. We are partners with a transport company and you can use our preferential prices. This also applies to your return flight. To do this, you will need to send us the details of your flight one week in advance.

Upon arrival in Bulgaria, you will be greeted at the airport by one of our employees who will take you to your hotel.

On the day before the operation, you will have a preliminary examination, where some necessary tests will be performed (e.g. blood tests) and we will specify all the details related to the operation (treatment plan, proposal for some additional or adjacent procedures for a better outcome, recovery plan etc). Our employee will take you to the clinic and after that to the place where you are to be accommodated.

Before the surgery, you will need to sign an informed consent document (i.e. a document certifying that you have been informed by the doctor about all potential risks and complications and that you understand them) and agree to proceed with the procedure).

On the day of the operation our employee will bring you back to the clinic. Depending on the procedure, you may need to have one or several days of hospital stay. After the completion of the procedure and the hospital stay, our employee will take you back to your hotel.

During the entire stay, our employee will be at your service throughout. 

If you wish, and if the procedure allows, we can arrange your stay according to your requirements but this must be specified in advance.

On the day of departure, you will be accompanied by our employee back to the airport.

If you wish, we can arrange your stay according to your requirements. This must be specified in advance.

You will be provided with a detailed plan on the recovery process. 

Online consultations in the recovery period will be arranged with your surgeon, but if you have stayed in the hospital after your procedure, the doctor will give you post-operative examinations on the first and third days.

On the seventh and fourteenth days, preventive online consultations will be made to track how the recovery goes.  

Online consultation reviews are also done on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6thmonths.You will be able to contact us at any time!