Category: liposuction

Liposuction – An Evolving Science but still an Imprecise Art

Liposuction continues to be the most commonly performed of all body contouring plastic surgery procedures. The large surface areas that can be treated make for significant changes in the contours of one’s body. The marketing and promotion of liposuction across all types of media strongly suggest that it is a precise surgical procedure. Inferences are Read More…

Smartlipo Arm Contouring

The arms, like many other areas of the body, can suffer from lipodystrophy. On the back of the arms, unwanted skin and fat can hang down creating a larger and undesired appearance to them. Despite how well diet and exercise can help shape out other body areas, the arms are uniquely resistant to such efforts. Read More…

Smartlipo vs. LipoDissolve – Which is Better?

I often see questions online in which it is asked which is better for fat removal, lipodissolve or Smartlipo? On the surface, this is a bit perplexing because they are rather different methods and concepts for selective body contouring of unwanted fat. But given the exposure that both have had from marketing in the Read More…

The Male Tummy Tuck (Lipoabdominoplasty)

Men have just as many concerns about their waistline and abdominal shape as women. But the anatomic basis for the male abdominal problem is usually different. Exclusive of the morbidly obese or the extreme weight loss patient, men have different skin, fat and muscle compositions of their abdominal shape. Men do not get pregnant so Read More…

Scarless Male Breast Reduction with Smartlipo

Gynecomastia is a much more common condition than many men realize. While it is manifest by developing excess tissue in the breast. it also has varying degrees of nipple and chest skin deformities. Often the amount of chest skin and nipple position determines the quality of a gynecomastia reduction result. In any case, it is an embarrassing condition Read More…

Postoperative Drainage after Smartlipo (Laser Liposuction)

Smartlipo, also known as laser liposuction, uses heat to breakdown fat. Through the joint concepts of direct fat destruction by contact with a 1mm probe which emits laser energy to raising the internal temperature of the zone of treatment to above 45 degrees C, fat cells are thermally disrupted. The heat either directly breaks Read More…

The Role of the Plastic Surgeon in New Liposuction Technologies

Liposuction now has a U.S. history of close to 30 years of widespread clinical use. Over the years, many innovations and technologic advancements have come forth for this popular fat removal method. The vast majority of these have been in the past ten to fifteen years and much has centered on the methods of Read More…

Smartlipo of the Abdomen and Waistline

The most common location to perform liposuction in both men and women is the abdominal area. Abdominal liposuction likely makes more than half of all fat aspiration procedures. This is because this is the one area where everyone, regardless of age or sex, will accumulate fat first. This is biologically understandable as this is the Read More…

Weight Loss Medications after Liposuction Surgery

Liposuction is ideally used to reduce spot areas of fat excess in the trunk and neck. In a perfect world, it is done exclusively in patients that have maximized their weight loss through diet and exercise and are at or near their ideal body weight. In reality, not all liposuction patients fit these preoperative Read More…

Smartlipo (Laser Liposuction): It’s All About The Heat

The most simplistic understanding of Smartlipo (laser liposuction) is that it induces thermal lipolysis. This accomplished by the direct destruction of fat cells through heat energy delivered by a fine laser probe. A secondary effect of the use of laser energy is that there is a build-up of heat throughout the treatment zone which Read More…