Danger! Weird things women do to appear attractive despite being potentially fatal

VANGUARD

For the uninitiated, the alphabet BBL might draw a blank. Not so for aspiring and practising socialites in our big capital cities of Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt.

For the latter, BBL stands for Brazilian Butt Lift, a procedure that augments the look of your buttocks in addition to removing fat from other parts of your body and transferring it to the buttocks area for a more voluptuous appearance.

Plastic and cosmetic surgeries

Once upon a not-too-distant time, engaging in plastic surgery was almost taboo. There were few practitioners in the country anyway, and most were to be found in the teaching hospitals where they mainly performed corrective surgeries on patients with natural conditions such as cleft lips, club feet and mastectomy patients.

OBGYN Consultant and Surgeon, Dr Loretta Ogboro Okor tells Vanguard that patients of such procedures must exercise caution on many different levels, saying the side effects are not to be joked around with, as they are potentially fatal.

”You will remember that the Brazillians have all these festivals and they are very body image conscious, so they are very focused on all these cosmetic surgeries and BBL is one of such.

“ Before BBL people got butt implants, but BBL became better and more fashionable. In the immediate term there is the risk of bleeding whether we like it or not, because tissues are being cut and incisions are being made”.

A high risk procedure

Ogboro Okoh advises BBL patients to patronise the right practitioners who will carry out proper investigations.

”Some of us bleed a lot more than others and in the Nigerian situation people don’t usually do check ups often so we don’t even know what is wrong with us. Some people even have Von Willebrand disease, where you bleed a lot.

“First few days after surgery are very painful and people are asked not to lie on their back. Imagine if someone already has gastro esophageal reflux disease or cardiac conditions and have to lie on their tummy for the first few weeks. The pain is real, swelling and bruising. Over time the skin may be discoloured”.
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