Smart Lipo blog posts and news

Smart Lipo Invades Britain

The buzz is picking up in the UK about the laser liposuction treatment Smart lipo.

The Times just interviewed Mr Ayham Ayoubi from the Hurlingham Clinic in London According to the reporter, Mr Ayoubi "is a pioneer of Smartlipo in Britain" and incorporates Velashape in the body contouring treatment to "eliminate fluids and improve skin texture."

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Why Is It So Hard To Learn About Lipozap?

Technology combination is muddying the waters in the aesthetics market, such that consumers often get left in the dark on whether a cosmetic procedure is safe and effective.

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CoolLipo Is Hot

I've come to the conclusion that you can make your body into almost anything you want it to be with these new generations of lasers. My first liposuction, almost fifteen years ago, bruised me pretty badly and took several weeks to recover from. I was awake during it, and the apparatus, as I remember it, looked a lot like a vacuum cleaner. I saw the fat going away!

Apparently, things have really changed in the interim. Much of the new technology involves melting the fat or liquefying it so there is less damage to the surrounding tissue when the fat is removed. Then the fat is sucked out through a small cannula, which is like a straw. One of the drawbacks of the lipo procedure I had was that there is some excess loose skin in the suctioned area. (Too much information?)

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Smart Lipo Studies Don't Show Better Results, Says Wall Street Journal

There I was on the airplane this morning reading a copy of the Wall Street Journal that had been donated to me by the guy next to me, who probably did not read the first article that drew my attention: "Body of Evidence: Popular Laser Treatment to Remove Fat Draws Skepticism." I can't give you the link to the article, because you have to be a subscriber to read it online, but I will summarize it for you: SmartLipo is merely a marketing ploy to get people interested in liposuction again. This from the editor of the monthly Journal of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery.

Apparently, patients have been avoiding liposuction in droves for less invasive treatments, especially since traditional liposuction involved general anaesthesia. So some surgeons have thus invested in a Cynosure laser, which melts the fat and allows it to be sucked out through smaller tubes. However, yet another form of lipo, tumescent lipo, can also be done with a local anaesthetic and -- because it's on closeout because it's not this year's model (just a joke)--can be thousands of dollars cheaper. 100% of our readers thought tumescent liposuction was worth it, too. In contrast, 74% of our community members thought SmartLipo was worth it.

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Social Media Lipo

Erica O'Grady, blogging at Reinventing Erica, has taken cosmetic surgery into the social media realm in a new and fascinating way. Erica filmed and posted online her Smartlipo treatment (a laser-assisted liposuction technique) and described the blow-by-blow using twitter.com from her laptop. Erica has posted a review on RealSelf.com about her experience.