When the Fat Cells Are Removed Do They Develop Somewhere Else?

many of my patients tell me that they are afraid that they will grow lumps of fat in other areas after liposuction, and they ofthen ask me if this is true!! Once fat is removed from an areas by liposuction, and then the patient gains a lot of fat, then they will gain more fat in the areas that were not suctioned before. thereofre, you will not grow fat lumps, but your other body areas such a your buttock or breasts can get full faster if you gain weight after liposuction.

AFter liposuction, weight gain is possible in other areas, more than the area that underwent liposuction by the existing cells gaining volume, but the number of cells don't change. New fat cells don't grow. There is a possible exception, if someone gains more than 170% of their ideal body weight, it has been reported that new fat cells can grow.

No new fats cells grow elsewhere but fat cells have a tremendous capacity to store fat.  The fat that is removed from one part of the body by liposuction will eventually find their way back to your body unless you change what you eat or how much exercise you do.  The fat that returns is more uniformly distributed than the fat say localized to the saddle bags.  So the other parts of the body do not develop new fat cells, the ones that were there just get a little bit bigger.