Liposuction is not a weight loss procedure!!

 Even when we do a maximum liposuction of 5,000 ml of fat, patients do not experience significant weight loss. The primary goal is body contouring and treatment of disproportionate fat distribution.

The waist and abdomen areas are very easy to reduce by liposuction. If you continue to diet, exercise and lose weight, the surgical result will be enhanced. If you gain weight, it will be more proportionately distributed around the body.

For most patients, good surgical technique and an experienced surgeon are more important than high tech gadgetry. Good surgeons in the 1980's produced fabulous results without the aide of Vaser and SmartLipo. The newest technology will not make an inexperinced doctor into a skillful surgeon.

I used multiple ultrasonic techniques in the 90's and found that they only added to the patient cost and did not improve results.

SmartLipo does have a role in improving skin laxity and treating patients who have loose skin.

As long as you are going to an experienced, preferably board certified plastic surgeon, for your body sculpting, the technique used is not as important as the surgeon's skills and his evaluation of your goals and expectations and how closely he can realistically get to them.  The end result should be the same.  Although it would be a great motivator to get improvement in your mid-section now, you will get your best results if you are a little closer to your ideal weight.  You are not far from that. Another important factor is the elasticity of your skin in the abdomen and whether the form of liposuction used will help to "shrink" the skin to your new proportions or if you may need some form of skin excision (modified or full abdominoplasty).

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