Robert Whitfield MD explains why BBL deaths happened: fat injected into muscle or blood vessels. Modern technique avoids this by placing fat only in the superficial layer. The procedure is safe when a credentialed surgeon does it in a proper facility.
But talk to me about bbls. I know they're the most dangerous procedure. That's not something you do. Oh, right. Not something you recommend. Yeah. So it's funny I wouldn't get one obviously, but so it's been around for ages and many years ago when I was working in one of the societies, there were deaths and it was basically from, we'll say fat being injected in the wrong areas. It was getting into the bloodstream via the veins and going to the heart and people were dying. So we wrote a safe safety paper about how to do it safely and the instrumentation and it's been much, much more advanced now to where you just are putting fat in the fatty layer and not in the muscle layer and obviously avoiding the large blood vessels around the buttocks. It's not a complicated or unsafe procedure to have performed. It needs to be done in the proper setting by the properly credentialed providers.
