Liposuction is best suited for patients who have localized fat deposits.
Liposuction is not good for overall weight loss. In fact, patients can accomplish more on their own in two weeks in the gym than I can accomplish safely in the operating room.
However, most of my liposuction patients will never be able to dislodge the stubborn areas of fat no matter how much they work out. These areas are simply "stuck". Patients are frustrated and often demoralized by these areas.
Patients who are at their "baseline" weights may be candidates for liposuction. Baseline weight is the weight where the patient "lives" when they are doing their best with diet and exercise, not the "ideal weight", the weight we would all like to be, but, for most of us, cannot realistically maintain.
Many patients seek "aggressive liposuction" in hopes of removing lots and lots of fat. It is with this aggressive liposuction that we see the worst contour problems, lumpiness, sagging skin, etc, that often cannot be fixed.
For the right patient, liposuction can literally be life-changing.
