Am I a good candidate for smart lipo? I’m 5’7 and weight 131lbs. (photos)

Thank you for your question and pictures. you are a good candidate for a tummy tuck with liposuction. If you're willing to travel, Surgeons in the Dominican Republic have experience and very high standard of excellence when it comes to plastic surgery. I'm positive you can get what you're looking for

You could be a very good candidate for liposuction if you have realistic expectations about how much improvement you will see. I would probably combine the lipo procedure with a nonsurgical skin tightening treatment like ThermiTight to create a smoother result. This approach will be able to remove a significant amount of the fat, but is unlikely to create a completely flat abdomen. The advantage is that it can be performed using local anesthesia and only requires a few days of downtime. It also does not leave much visible scarring behind. I recommend scheduling a consultation with an experienced, board-certified physician who has expertise in this type of body contouring. With a qualified doctor and customized treatment plan, you should see good improvement.

no you need a tummy tuck, liposuction and internal heating to get a good outcome. liposuction alone will be disastrous.

my whole practice is doing lipoabdominoplasty, or at least liposuction with internal heating (which is not the gold standard for skin tightening with body contouring).

the smaller you are before liposuction the more contouring you can get from the procedure. most of my liposuction patients get pre and post surgical optimization with hormonal therapy (see link to help boost their weight loss before surgery and help them heal after).

You need a formal evaluation by an expert in body shaping and contouring to determine what is best.  Traditional liposuction awake and smart liposuction are old methods and do very poorly for tightening skin or significant skin tightening or contouring.  Small problem areas can be improved slightly by these methods.  The best in body contouring not only removes fat with energy devices like VASER ultrasound but also internally heat the skin with radio-frequency devices such as J PLASMA/RENUVION, InMode BodyTite, ThermiRF to heat the under surface of the skin and tighten it at the same time as fat removal. These combinations are called 4D HIDEF VASER contouring and can only be done by a well . trained body contouring specialist. At the same time fat should be harvested, PRP and stem cells added and injected into muscles or indentations/cellulite to get body shaping and contouring.  This is known as a Brazilian butt lift when you inject the fat to the buttock for contouring and lifting, but fat can also be used in areas such as the chest/breast, arms/shoulders, calves and face.  Cellulite should also be treated with cellfina, sculptra, subcision and/or fillers such as bellafill, renuva synthetic fat, or sculptra.  If skin is very loose before surgery then it will need to be removed such as lower abdominal skin (tummy tuck/abdominoplasty), breast skin (breast lift), arm skin (brachioplasty).  Overall you need a full assessment, but simple liposuction alone will not tighten skin and needs a combination of various methods -- fat removal, skin tightening, defining, fat grafting, skin removal -- to get the best in body contouring and body sculpting.  Dr. Emer.