Hip Hardware Implants

[JessieBirdie]

As a trans person who is really dissatisfied with her bone structure, I have constantly been keeping an eye on medical advances to see if there is anything I could do about my shoulders/ribcage/hips.

So there's the clavicle shortening surgery thing (to reduce shoulder width)...which has a topic on the site here.  I doubt I'd go through this as of now considering it's in Japan right now and not done in the USA as of yet (and suffers the same issues as rib removal and such), it also requires extension recuperation in Tokyo.  I wouldn't want to be stuck overseas like that but who knows, maybe it'll come stateside.
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,217438

And then...I found THIS on Zinnia Jones's site.  A method of balancing out shoulders by working with widening hips that is NOT silicone or fat.
https://genderanalysis.net/2018/02/a-new-plastic-surgery-technique-for-hip-widening/

Anyone have any opinions on this/any news about this coming stateside?  Doesn't look particularly dangerous (we already do hip replacements with hardware and I personally have permanent silicone cheek implants screwed into my face from FFS that according to my doc never need to be looked at), albeit I'm just wondering how natural this would look in regards to gait as well.  Thanks!

[Allison S]

Isn't rib removal most common and least invasive at this point? Maybe starting with that can help if you're suffering deeply. I saw your other post and I imagine you started with a "vision" for yourself years ago before/during transition. I feel the same way in that I picture/imagine myself in a certain way that I want to achieve

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[AnonyMs]

There was a recent thread about this here

"Hip Widening Surgery now avaliable via a new technique called Minimal Invasive Plate Osteosynthesis"
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php?topic=233706.0

[Dani]

Adding volume to the iliac crest may not give you the wide hips you seek.  In many women, the iliac crest is not raised upward, but rather outward. This provides more room lower down in the pelvis for internal organs which gives a smaller waist.

Notice that the before and after pictures are just drawings and not photos of real people.

[Kyra553]

The ribs have been inverted in the after photo comparison. Further inverted implying a rib removal as well.