[Mary]

Cosmetic surgeons may be worrying about ­business dropping due to the recession, but one Miami-based surgeon is actually pinning his hopes on the market ‘bottoming’ out.


His name is Constantino Mendieta and he’s the inventor of the Miami Thong Lift, the latest way to a shapelier rear view, which was presented this week at the conference of British Aesthetic and Plastic surgeons (BAAPS) in London.

According to Constantino Mendieta, there’s been a growing demand in getting a curvier bottom, like that of famous J Lo, or Beyonce. And moreover he added that this demand is expected to grow. Formerly, the usual way to create curvier butt was with the help of silicone implants, similar to those used for breast augmentation.
But as top plastic surgeon Rajiv Grover, president–elect of BAAPS, explains, these could be risky.

‘Implants have a tendency to move and, if they get infected, they have to be surgically removed.’

So instead, Mendieta uses grafts of fat ­liposuctioned from the thighs or stomach, purified and then painstakingly injected — using a large needle — into the layers of muscle of the buttocks, changing their shape from flat to super-curvy and high, like Beyonce’s behind.

‘Buttock enhancement is instinctively attractive to men,’ he says. ‘Women are wearing tighter clothes and, if you wear a thong bikini on the beach, nothing is left to the imagination.’

how do you think can this procedure become a new plastic surgery boom?

[paty]

I don't think that Dr. Mendieta is the inventor of this procedure because the technique of buttock augmentation with fat injection exists from years and years. I had it done in Bolivia on 2006 at MakeoverTravel clinic! In a first time your surgeon will do a liposuction ofn all the areas you want and after that he/she will purify the fat and inject it inside your butt to give the curve and volume you want.
The price of this surgery in latin america is around $3500 depending on the liposuction areas you need. I had it done for $2,900 in Bolivia, and i did a liposuction of abdomen, arms and thighs. I am very happy with my results from the day I did it.