Does San Antonio like curves? You bet your butt!

SAN ANTONIO The Alamo City has been ahead of the curve on a plastic surgery procedure designed to enhance, well curves.

According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, there was a 58 percent increase in butt augmentation surgeries in 2013 over the year before, a larger spike than any other type of plastic surgery.

But Alamo Heights plastic surgeon Michael Decherd said the procedures, specifically the popular Brazilian butt lift, is nothing new to San Antonio.

There has been a lot of interest in San Antonio in the procedure ever since I've been in practice (10 years), he said.

Decherd attributed the procedure's popularity in San Antonio to the city's ethnic diversity.

But there may be a boost in popularity nationwide because more doctors are offering the procedure and discussing and publishing studies on it.

The figures showed an 11 percent increase in American doctors who performed the surgery in 2013 over 2012.

The Brazilian butt lift is essentially a fat graft, he said, in which fatty tissue from a person's thighs, love handles or another region is removed and inserted into the derriere.

Taking fat from the love handles creates a synergistic effect by thinning the waist while augmenting the posterior, he said.

There are typically more people interested in the surgery than are good candidates for the booty boost, Decherd said.

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Does San Antonio like curves? You bet your butt!