1 year post Liposuction - Will results get better with time? (photos)

My previous response was, "Not really since you may have more denting in other areas of liipo since you are fat limited patient. I use combination of Radeisse/Sculptra injections over 3-6 sessions. Each sessions $6,000. Best to virtual consult with..."

Your results have been final for a long time and are not gonna change with more time. Your doctor it’s just kicking the can down the road hoping you’re never going to come back to his office.
There are an awful lot of plastic surgeons with years of experience who are really not very good at Liposuction. they don’t take the procedure seriously and never bother to really learn how to do it correctly thinking that they already know how because they’ve been doing the same thing for so long.
Doctors who do not acknowledge their own bad outcomes are unlikely to ever mature and become better at what they do.
Delivering consistent quality liposuction results is more difficult than most people believe and this includes plastic surgeons.
The number of providers who can consistently deliver predictable quality results is actually quite few.
It is now after the fact for you unfortunately. for patients seeking Liposuction as a primary procedure I recommend they be very selective and personally interview multiple plastic surgeons before committing to having surgery. During each in person consultations I recommend patients ask each provider to show their entire collection of before and after pictures. Being a show and a handful of pre-selected pictures which most likely represent the best results of their career is insufficient to get a clear understanding of what average results look like in the hands of each provider. An experienced provider should have no difficulty showing you at least 50 sets of before and after pictures of common procedures like abdominal liposuction.
Ask to provide her to show as many pictures as possible of patients with similar body characteristics to your own. Ask to provide her to show examples of excellent results, average results and less than results.
Look at all areas treated in the result pictures and look carefully for any areas of contour irregularities or evidence of having had bad liposuction. Asked the provider to point out what areas were treated and what areas were not treated and look carefully at transition zones between treated and on treated areas.
Continue having consultations until you found a plastic surgeon who looks like they know what they’re doing.
I also recommend reading all reviews on various physician review websites avoiding providers with any significant number of justified negative reviews. The absence of justified negative reviews is more important and more telling than having an abundance of positive reviews.
Liposuction is a permanent and more or less irreversible procedure. Collecting poorly done Liposuction is very difficult and Revision Work is many times more difficult than primary liposuction.
If you want to attempt to improve on your outcome you are for sure going to need to find someone with far more talent than your current provider.
Attempt at improving liposuction results include revision liposuction, fat transfer, a combination of both or converting the procedure to a skin tightening operation like a full tummy tuck.
At this point your best option is probably to try to negotiate to get some of your money back. Some surgeons may be willing to do this and others will not. I would encourage you to write a review or write several reviews about your experience reflecting on it in an honest and professional manner.
Where the plastic surgeons give refunds it’s not uncommon that they ask patience to release them from any liability and this includes writing negative remarks on public forums.
It can be upsetting to recognize that you’ve been disfigured by a cosmetic surgical procedure that was intended to make you look and feel better.
Unfortunately this happens and it happens all too often with Liposuction.
Ultimately your doctor is responsible for the outcome and you are responsible for choosing that doctor.
If you want to get a proper second opinion and then schedule those as in person consultations with other plastic surgeons in your community who seem to be well-versed in Liposuction and go through the same vetting process I described above. you should come prepared for second opinion consultations by bringing with you proper before and after pictures which you should also include if you ever want someone like myself to make an assessment on the outcome of your procedure. If you don’t have your before and after pictures then ask your surgeon to forward the one they took. you should also ask for a copy of your operative report which would be good to bring with you for a second opinion consultation.
Unfortunately it’s going to be difficult to make any significant improvements on your outcome but it is very much a case dependent situation. People who were grossly over treated are the most difficult to improve upon a.
I’ve been a board-certified plastic surgeon for 22 years. The last 12 years of my practice has been spent exclusively doing only liposuction and fat transfer procedures. I have done over 8000 liposuction of procedures in my career to date.
Once upon a time my results probably looked a bit like that as well.
Today they don’t and they are very consistent.
Understanding why doing Liposuction well is so difficult it’s kind of a long complicated explanation but take my word that it is.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom MD