How was your Smart Lipo experience in Redlands, CA?

Has anyone had Smart Lipo done in Redlands, CA? What was your experience like? Recovery, pricing, results and the like?

3 answers to “How was your Smart Lipo experience...”

A: Laser lipolysis has to prove its own merit

Otto Joseph Placik, MD

As you can see from the two other surgeons comments, laser lipolysis is not a considered an accepted and  respected technique. Many people have tremendous reservations about this technology and are expecting it to fail.

A: Not so smart lipo

Richard P. Rand, MD

There has never been shown any significant difference between laser lipo and traditional lipo.  The key to a greast result is to find a great surgeon and to have great skin that will shrink after the lipo is done.  A poor sculptor will do a poor job regardless of his technology and a patient with a... more

A: Flawed Lipo

Steven Teitelbaum, MD

Why are you searching for a doctor that does the so-called "smart-lipo" technique?  There is no advantage to this at all.  In fact, at a recent plastic surgery meeting, it was concluded that the only advantage of smartlipo is marketing for the surgeon that buys it.  Is that what you... more

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