Jan 3 2011
How Effective Is Liposuction For Weight Loss?
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If you think that liposuction is a way to lose weight you are going to be disappointed when you learn the truth. During liposuction, plastic surgeons use specialized instruments to refine the contours of the body by concentrating on specific areas. The patient does not have a significant weight loss during the procedure, since only small amounts of fat are removed.
Unfortunately, this means that liposuction is not some shortcut to being thin without changing eating habits or exercising. You may be asking yourself why anyone has liposuction then, if it does not help with weight loss.
What liposuction is great for is allowing the surgeon to target the last stubborn problem areas that remain after people have already lost most of the weight to get close to their ideal size. Often, when a person has lost weight, there are stubborn area of fat that will not go away and will not even respond to even strenuous exercise. Liposuction enables the surgeon to remove excess fat from these specific areas and refine the contours of the body.
Surgeons commonly use liposuction to target fat in the hips, buttocks, thighs, arms, chin and neck, love handles and stomach and many other specific areas. The way the procedure works is, using a special suction device, the surgeon goes under the skin and literally vacuums out fat cells. Often liposuction is also used on men to reduce the size of male breasts by removing fat from the pectoralis area.
However, the results look the best on people with tight, elastic skin that can contract around the countours of the affected areas. Many older patients have lost elasticity in their skin and, accordingly, will not look as good as younger patients after surgery.
I had no problem finding several Richmond Plastic Surgery clinics to choose from with qualified surgeons and I bet it would be the same way in the nearest city to your location. There were even several Richmond liposuction surgeons that specialize in this procedure, so you should also be able to find some local specialists.
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