One is excess above the hip bone; the other is a deficit below it. Most 'my hips look wrong' frustration is the two stacked together — and the fix reads them as one line.
What it is: excess fat above the hip bone, at the flank. The fix: removal — liposuction. It's a subtraction problem.
What it is: a volume deficit below and behind the hip bone, over skeletal geometry. The fix: addition — targeted fat transfer. It's an addition problem.
Fullness above makes the hollow below read deeper — the eye measures the drop between them. Treating only one often disappoints: lipo alone can make dips look worse; filling alone leaves the shelf above.
The flank fat being removed is often exactly the donor fat the dip needs — one operation subtracting where there's excess and adding where there's deficit, reading your side as one continuous line. This is the single most common combined plan in this practice.
Send front and back photos; the read comes back mapped: what's excess, what's deficit, and the one-line plan.
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