The number is higher than most people expect, and the reason is simple. But before the cost: hip dips are bone structure, and a meaningful proportion of people asking about this don't need anything done.
From $5,800 at Plump Medical Spa for collagen biostimulator hip dip correction. More than one session is commonly needed, and each is costed separately.
The reason it's expensive is volume. A syringe of facial filler is one millilitre. The lateral hip needs many times that, on both sides. You're buying material, and there's a lot of it.
The single most common reaction to this number is that it seems disproportionate to face treatment. It's worth understanding why it isn't.
Facial treatment uses one or two millilitres. The lateral hip depression is a considerably larger area, and treating both sides means product across a surface many times the size of a cheek. The material itself is the dominant cost, and there's no way around that arithmetic.
Which is why a quote of a few hundred dollars should worry you. Either they're treating a fraction of the area, or using a product that won't produce lasting volume at that scale.
The depression sits between the iliac crest and the greater trochanter — the top of your pelvis and the top of your femur. How pronounced it looks depends on how wide your pelvis is, where your femur sits, and where the muscle attaches.
All of which is skeletal, all of which is normal, and most people have it to some degree. It isn't a fat distribution problem. It has nothing to do with your body fat percentage. It didn't appear because you skipped the gym.
The term "hip dips" is roughly a decade old as a widely used phrase. The anatomy is considerably older than that.
This matters commercially as well as anatomically. Because the depression is skeletal, filling it changes the contour without changing what created it — and how much improvement is achievable depends on how much of the depression is bone versus soft tissue.
Someone with a pronounced skeletal component may spend $5,800 and get less change than they hoped. That's a conversation to have before treatment rather than at month six.
Most people who arrive at this question didn't notice their hips independently. They saw content that framed normal anatomy as a flaw — often filmed at an angle, in specific lighting, by someone with a differently shaped pelvis.
Look at yourself standing normally, in a mirror, not posed and not photographed. A meaningful proportion of people who do that find the thing they were worried about is less pronounced than the version they'd been comparing against.
If after that you still want it addressed, that's a legitimate preference and there's a treatment for it. But it's worth checking whether you're correcting something you actually see, or something you were told to see.
Hyaluronic acid filler can be dissolved with an enzyme if you don't like the result. A collagen biostimulator cannot.
It works by prompting your own tissue to build collagen, and there's nothing that reverses that. If the result is more than you wanted, you wait for it to resorb — which takes years.
That's the reason it's built conservatively across sessions rather than delivered all at once. Adding more is straightforward. Removing it isn't possible.
A fair number of people who ask about this leave without booking, and that's the correct outcome. Hip dips are skeletal, they're normal, and the honest assessment is often that the achievable change doesn't justify what it costs. Where someone has looked at themselves clearly, understands it's their pelvis rather than a fixable flaw, and still wants the contour softened — that's a reasonable decision and the treatment does work. The problem is the people arriving because an algorithm told them to.
How much does hip dip filler cost?
At Plump Medical Spa in Newport Beach, hip dip correction with a collagen biostimulator starts from $5,800. That figure surprises people, and the reason is volume. Facial treatment uses a syringe or two. The lateral hip is a far larger area requiring substantially more product across both sides, and more than one session is commonly needed. Anyone quoting a few hundred dollars is either treating a much smaller area than you have in mind or using a product that will not last.
Why is it so much more expensive than face filler?
Volume, almost entirely. A syringe of facial filler is one millilitre. Correcting a lateral hip depression on both sides requires many times that, and the product itself is the largest component of the cost. It is not that hip treatment is technically harder — it is that you are buying considerably more material.
What actually causes hip dips?
Skeletal structure. The depression sits between the iliac crest and the greater trochanter, and how pronounced it appears depends on the width of your pelvis, the position of the femur, and where the muscle attaches. It is normal anatomy present in most people to some degree. It is not a sign of body fat percentage, and it is not something that appeared because of anything you did or failed to do.
Can exercise get rid of hip dips?
Not really. Building the gluteus medius can slightly soften the appearance by adding muscle above the depression, and it is worth doing for other reasons. But the depression itself is bone, and no amount of training changes skeletal structure. Content promising hip dip elimination through exercise is selling something.
Is hip dip filler permanent?
No, but it is also not reversible in the way hyaluronic acid filler is. A collagen biostimulator works by prompting your body to build its own collagen, which develops over months and then gradually resorbs over years. There is no enzyme that dissolves it. If the result is more than you wanted, you wait rather than reverse it — which is why the treatment is built conservatively across sessions.
How long does it take to see results?
Very little is visible in the first few weeks beyond swelling, which then settles and can make it look as though nothing happened. Genuine volume develops from around six to eight weeks and continues through three to six months as collagen forms. The result is assessed at that point, not before, and additional sessions are decided then.
Who should not have this treatment?
Anyone whose depression is largely skeletal and pronounced, since the achievable improvement may not justify the cost. Anyone who has not seen their own hips in a neutral standing position rather than in a posed photograph. And anyone whose interest in this began with content designed to make normal anatomy feel like a defect, because the honest answer there is usually that nothing needs treating.
Dr. Mortazavi will tell you how much of your contour is skeletal, what's realistically achievable, and whether the cost makes sense for your anatomy — including when it doesn't.
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