What are my options to fix poor liposuction job on abdomen please?

Delivering consistent quality Liposuction and fat transfer results is more difficult than most people believe. I continue to encourage people to carefully vet plastic surgeons before undergoing these procedures to verify their skill and experience.

In your case it’s a little late for that now but in general I recommend patients have multiple in person consultations at which time I recommend they ask the provider to show their entire collection of before and after pictures. it’s especially important to ask providers to show examples of good results, average results and less than results. An experienced provider should have no difficulty showing you 50 or more sets of before and after pictures and this confirms that they have at least a moderate amount of experience. highly experienced providers will have hundreds or even thousands of abdominal liposuction before and after pictures.

You may not have been an ideal candidate for Liposuction in the first place and that combined with someone who lacks skill and experience ends up leaving a poor aesthetic outcome.

Liposuction is a permanent and irreversible procedure. Poor results are sometimes treated with revision liposuction, fat transfer and sometimes converting the procedure to a skin tightening procedure like a full tummy tuck. Converting this to a full tummy tuck may be an option for you since you seem to have skin laxity that I believe was at least moderately present on your before pictures.

There’s no easy fix for this though improvements can be had depending on circumstances and who does the work.

Often it requires multiple revision procedures but sometimes it can be done in a single procedure.

Without converting this to a full tummy tuck your chances of having a pre-procedure looking abdomen is unlikely.

Still, the problem is an uneven fat distribution and excessive removal of subcutaneous fat.

A tummy tuck treats skin laxity but does not treat uneven fat layers or the excessive previous removal of fat.

In the end your surgeon is responsible for the outcome of your procedure and you are responsible for choosing that surgeon.

Revision work is more difficult than primary Liposuction so take that into consideration if you plan on having any revision surgery.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD