Does SmartLipo Keep the Fat off Longer Than Traditional Lipo?

I have heard that fat has a lower chance of returning in SmartLipo than in Traditional Lipo. Is this true?

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False marketing trick

Smartlipo its a good tool, specially the newer devices (MPX and triplex) however it is only that a tool, you need to have a good surgeon on the other side, to obtain the best possible result. When fat is removed that particular fat is removed for ever, however the remaining fat can still grow. What you are hearing is a marketing false statement done only to attract you to a questionable surgeon. One of the problems with office based liposuction is that now every person with an MD... more

Fat return after smart liposuction

Regardless of how the fat is removed, conventional tumescent liposuction or smart lipo, the fat cells that are removed are removed permanently, but fat cells are left behind. They shouldn't all be removed. There needs to be a residual amount of fat to serve its function of a barrier between the muscle and skin and to provide circulation to the skin and softness, otherwise the skin would be bound down to the muscle and look and feel terrible. The residual fat cells can engorge more... more

Fat reture after liposuction

Of course, Smart(?)lipo doesn't make your fat stay away longer than traditional liposuction. Who would even make a claim like that? Makes no sense biologically. What ever fat is removed by either method is gone for good. Only if you over eat and don't exercise will fat return and it wouldn't matter which lipo you had done.

SmartLipo is NOT superior to Tumescent Liposuction

Once the fat is removed by vacuum it does NOT magically return. That fat is gone forever. What does happen is that many patients regard liposuction as their get-out-of-jail - All-you-can-eat" card and resume overeating and under-exercising. This results in fat deposition in ALL available fat cells. This frequently manifests as only a bit of fat increase in the areas which lost the most fat cells by liposuction and the greatest fat deposits in the non suctioned fat areas which... more