Can I Get An Hourglass Figure with Hip Implants?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in hip implants. I want to achieve the hour glass body shape. I am lookin to haver bigger hips/tight because my body is more like an inverted triangle.

A:I am always concerned that patients requesting larger hip implant augmentations are much more prone two complications such as chronic fluid collections and implant edging. Smaller hip implants do much better. When I see the phrases such as hourglass body shape, bigger hips and correction of an inverted body triangle all of this indicates the need/desire for larger hip implants. Such hip augmentation patients quite frankly make me nervous I’m About such potential hip implant surgery. Hip implants are uniquely different from all other body implants particularly in their complication rates due to their relatively superficial soft tissue location.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon