In March of 2008, is an article published in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, the editor of The JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY stated that "Smartlipo is a marketing GIMMICK to get us all in the door. ." Nothing that is told to us by the people providing the surgery is accurate...if it were, we'd all run for our lives. He didn't numb me in the least for the entire 3 & 1/2 hour procedure. I researched him and found he is NOT a plastic surgeon, or a surgeon at all. he has a certificate only in internal medicine most likely earned from working with a gynecologist. Smartlipo is also not regulated or FDA approved. If I knew then what I know now...I would have never had the procedure done.I would have saved myself the on going pain and suffering as well as the deformed tummy AND the $5000.00 I paid for trusting an unqualified person to touch me in any way.