Best Way to Permanently Remove Fat Cells?

Having taught liposuction for years at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, I know traditional tumescent liposuction to be a wonderful treatment, with an unparalleled safety record. Of all the available methods for fat removal, it is the only one I would consider using on myself, and it is the only one I offer to my patients. Recently, there have been many companies promoting techniques such as Smart Lipo and Cool Lipo, which aim to modify the traditional... more

Thank you for the commonly asked question. Fat cells that are gone (for example removed with liposuction surgery) are gone forever. However, if a patient gains weight the fat cells that remain in the area treated with liposuction and in areas that were not treated will grow. Do your best to maintain a healthy weight after your procedure. I hope this helps.

Liposuction will permanently remove fat cells and adipocytes.  However, weight gain will ultimately occur if you do not maintain a healthy diet and exercise after surgery.

The fat cells removed during liposuction are gone forever.  However, nothing prevents us from gaining weight.  Weight gained after liposuction is often distributed more evenly.  It is a myth that all weight gain after liposuction goes to one body part or another.

Liposuction is a safe, popular, and effective way to contour the body. This is the most effective technique to permanently remove fat cells. Although other techniques have been described that include melting the fat cells with radio waves or injecting medicine that will cost the fat cells to melt, these are not as consistent. For best results, it is recommended that you work with a board-certified plastic surgeon who has great deal of experience in liposuction and body contouring as they... more

Liposuction is always best done when a patient is at their goal weight. If the patient puts on weight after surgery, the fat may distribute differently. Cool lipo is just another form of liposuction and will have the same issues as more traditional forms.

Hi. 1) Really, it is a myth that fat goes elsewhere after liposuction. What happens is that, if you put on weight after liposuction, the new weight will not DIRECTLY go your bulges like it used to, because so many of the fat cells in your bulges are gone. So the new weight is evenly distributed throughout your body. 2) After you are a teenager, you don't make new fat cells. So when you put on weight, the same number of fat cells just get bigger.

Yes, we are born with preset number of fat cells reached by 18-21. Once the fat cells are removed by any mechanism, they are gone for life, unless you gain significant amount of weight. To maintain you results you need to be on healthy diet and excecise, the you will not get the fat again anywhere. IT IS A LIFESTYLE CHANGE.

Our bodies do NOT form new brain cells, muscle cells or fat cells. You are born with a certain number and you lose them gradually with time. Just as a heart attacks permanently removes heart cells, just as a stroke permanently destroys brain cells so does liposuction (or a tummy tuck which removes lower tummy skin and fat cells) PERMANENTLY remove fat cells. Despite what your friends tell you, our Fat cells do NOT act like jumping beans "always resurfaces some other weird random... more

Any means of fat removal (excision or any type of liposuction) will permanently remove a certain number of fat cells.  Remaining fat cells in that area and others will then expand or shrink with weight gain or loss.  Hence areas treated with lipo should be more proportional post-op.

The best technique to get rid of fat is to perform excision or liposuction. Several types of liposuction will lead to the same result which is fat cell removal. Ultrasound,laser or the gold standard which is the regular liposuction will deliver the same result. The main difference in my mind is the safety of the procedure and the experience of the surgeon. Weight gain following liposuction will lead to enlargement of the fat cells in different body areas. If there is no weight gain or... more

Cool lipo is another method of laser lipolysis. The laser destroys the fat cells and in the end accomplishes the same end goal of liposuction which is to remove localized fatty deposits. They claim quicker recovery, less bruising and te potential for greater skin contraction but this remains hotly debated and is controversial. The bottom line is don't have liposuction of you plan on gaining weight. Liposuction or Cool Lipo is optimal for people who have localized fatty depsits but are... more