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Sculptra® Butt Lift
A Sculptra Butt Lift uses injectable poly-L-lactic acid to stimulate your own collagen production, gradually adding fullness and improving shape without surgery, implants or fat transfer. Results build over several months across a series of sessions and can last two years or more.
How the Sculptra Butt Lift Works
Sculptra is poly-L-lactic acid, a biostimulator rather than a filler. It does not add volume by occupying space. Instead it prompts your body to build new collagen in the treated area, and that collagen is what creates the fullness.
Because the result is your own tissue, it develops gradually and looks and feels natural. The tradeoff is patience: this is not an immediate change.
Who the Sculptra Butt Lift Is For
This suits patients who want:
- Added fullness and improved shape without surgery
- Correction of hip dips and asymmetry
- An option that requires no liposuction or donor fat
- A gradual change rather than an obvious one
It is not a substitute for surgical augmentation if you want a dramatic size increase. It is a moderate, natural enhancement.
What to Expect
Each session takes about an hour. Sculptra is reconstituted and injected across the treatment area, usually with a cannula. Multiple vials are typically used per session, and most patients need a series of sessions spaced several weeks apart.
You will look fuller immediately from the injected fluid, but that settles within days. The real result comes later.
Aftercare
Massage of the treated area is important in the days following treatment, and your provider will show you the technique and schedule. Expect swelling and tenderness for several days and possible bruising.
Avoid prolonged sitting where possible for the first day or two, and skip strenuous lower body exercise for about a week. Results build over three to six months.
Session Length
About one hour per session
Downtime
About one hour per session
Session Count
A series, spaced several weeks apart
Results Timeline
Gradual over three to six months
Results Duration
Two years or more
Device or Brand
Sculptra® (injectable poly-L-lactic acid, Galderma)
FDA Status
FDA approved injectable poly-L-lactic acid collagen stimulator
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from a surgical BBL?
A surgical Brazilian Butt Lift transfers your own fat and requires liposuction and surgical recovery. Sculptra is injected in the office, needs no surgery, and works by building your own collagen gradually.
How many sessions will I need?
It varies with your starting point and your goal. Your provider will map out a plan at consultation.
How long do results last?
Two years or more for many patients, since the result is collagen your body has built.
When will I see a change?
Gradually, over three to six months. The immediate post-treatment fullness is fluid and is not the result.
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Dr. Todd A. Besnoff, MD
Medical Director
Top Doctor in Tampa Bay
Dr. Besnoff has been referred to as one of the Top Doctors in Tampa Bay (as seen in the recent Tampa Bay Magazine Top Doctors issue) and Top 100 Aesthetic Provider in America! Dr. Besnoff has assisted and/or performed hundreds of thousands of surgical procedures since 1995 in specialties such as plastic surgery, gynecology, tissue donation and life-saving emergency treatments. In fact, Ultimate Image has been known to have performed more BOTOX® / Dysport® treatments in Tampa Bay than any other provider.