Category: liposuction

Requirements for a Safe Liposuction Experience

Another tragedy involving liposuction surgery was highlighted in a news story out of New York earlier this week. An alleged ‘plastic surgeon’ was charged with homicide in a model’s death in which he performed liposuction. The 51 year-old female suffered from heart disease and had heart transplant surgery in 2004 and was on anti-rejection Read More…

The Inner Thigh Gap – Can It Be Created?

The shape of the thighs has long been an aesthetic interest/concern for some women. The most common thigh deformity are saddle bags, those outward protrusions that violate a straight or gently convex curve from the hip down to the knee. But the inner thigh is also an area of thigh insecurity as well with bulges Read More…

The Risk of Revisional Liposuction in Body Contouring

While liposuction is the most commonly performed plastic surgery procedure around the world, it is exposed to the same basic risk of any other plastic surgery operation….the risk of dissatisfaction and the need for revision. There is no way to know the exact rate of revision for liposuction but surgeon estimates have it as high Read More…

A Brief History of the Fundamental Techniques of Liposuction

Liposuction is one of the most commonly done plastic surgery procedures around the world. It has seen more technical advancements in the past decade than in the prior four decades of its use. But despite these improvements in fat extraction, the most basic elements of liposuction have remained the same. The triad of an infusion Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Liposuction and Triglyceride Levels

Apparently liposuction does more than get rid of those unsightly bulges, it may be good for your health as well. Studies have now shown that those people with elevated triglyceride levels (greater than 150mg/dl) prior to liposuction with or without a tummy tuck showed a significant drop (43%) after surgery. Those patients with normal triglyceride Read More…

Understanding The Array of Liposuction Technologies

Liposuction is one of the most commonly performed body contouring procedures done around the world. It is unique from all other plastic surgery procedures in that there are no significant incisions and putting tissues back together by suturing is a trivial part of the operation and has no impact on the final result. It is Read More…

Recovery and Results after Abdominal and Flank Liposuction

Liposuction is one of the most commonly performed of all body contouring plastic surgery procedures. It is also uniquely effective being able to reduce large volumes of fat over broad body surface areas. To no surprise the most common body areas treated with liposuction is the abdomen and lateral waistline. (aka flanks, love handles) These Read More…

Case Study: Linear Liposuction for the Abdominal Six-Pack Look (Abdominal Etching)

Background: The most common area for liposuction on the body is the abdomen for both men and women. It is done very successfully for making a round belly flatter and providing some shape to an often rotund waistline. While one can never make a round abdomen into a flat and sculpted athletic one, removal Read More…

Swelling and Bruising after Liposuction

Liposuction is a cosmetic procedure that is both common and effective, characteristics that many cosmetic operations share. But one unique feature of liposuction is the degree of tissue trauma that it creates. Despite the many glitzy advertisements for the procedure and countless impressive before and after photographs available on the internet, fat removal by Read More…