Liposuction

So liposuction has always been one of the most common cosmetic procedures down the United States. The idea is make small incisions in a person's body in the areas that they're not happy with and pull that fat out. Not everybody's a candidate for it so when people come in for the liposuction consult, the first thing is again we always try to establish the goals and make sure that those goals are realistic. Then what we get into is are you a good candidate? The ideal candidate for liposuction is somebody who's already in pretty good shape but they have problem areas they can't get rid of. The other part of it ideally they're a younger age, somebody in their 20s or 30s where the skin still has really good elasticity. When somebody is in relatively good shape and they've got great skin they can get fantastic results because you're treating small areas whether it's the inner thighs or the love handles or the lower back and then that after the fat comes out that good skin elasticity allows a really good shrink wrap effect so that the contour looks pretty. The worst case scenario is somebody who's significantly overweight with bad skin. Number one is you're not going to see that dramatic change with the suction and then even if you see some change the skin doesn't have the elasticity so a common thing that we see is some people will come in they're a pretty good weight after let's say having three children and they have some loose skin and fat lower belly they say I just want to do liposuction. Then we go to examine them and we see stretch marks all throughout the abdomen. What the stretch marks tell us is the skin is going to have lost its elasticity because stretch marks are basically damaged to the dermis which is part of your skin and that's where the elastic reflow comes from. So if that person comes in we have to say look you're not a great candidate for liposuction what you're a better candidate for is to cut it out because the skin's been damaged.

The ideal person stands in front of us we say okay here's a couple problem areas and your skin looks fantastic it's got great thickness no stretch marks has a nice quality to it so we know when we liposuction that patient it's going to recoil and have a really beautiful contour. There's alternatives these days to liposuction people come and say well what else can I do I don't really want to go to the operating room or I don't want to have a procedure done or I'm a little bit concerned with discomfort. Other things that we offer the main thing we offer as an alternative is cool sculpting. So for somebody who just says you know what I may be a great candidate for surgery I just don't want to do it what can I do you know during my lunch break come in for cool sculpting. Cool sculpting is a great device anytime we treat an area you get about a 20 to 25 improvement there's no incisions there's no downtime you can come in for an hour and go right back to your job.

You can't the effects are not as dramatic but for somebody looking for a conservative change it's a phenomenal option. There are other modalities but those are the two we really focus on so that would be liposuction in the OR and if it's non-invasive we really love cool sculpting.