Would I be able to do Lipo 360 and arm liposuction together?

Liposuction 360 can be combined with arms. My limit to liposuction is around 5 liters per surgery for maximum patient safety. You can combine any areas together as long as your total is 5 liters or less. Some people may request for higher volumes of fat removal, in which case I require patients to stay in a recovery center where they can be monitored and receive IV fluids and medications as they heal. Hope this helps!

Johnson C. Lee, MD
Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon

The amount of liposuction that can be done in one session depends on multiple variables. Primarily it’s determined by someone’s size. Most plastic surgeons will not remove more than 5 L of fat in a single session. This can typically allow for ideal treatments of the torso for patients up to about 180 pounds, Generally speaking.

Patients under that weight should be able to have their entire torso treated with arms and patients above that should consider having a split procedure.

I typically prefer to treating the torso as a “full torso”. This technically includes upper abdomen, lower abdomen, love handles, waist, full back and under arm area. I don’t like leaving any part of the tour so untreated except the breast and women. Treating the torso as a single anatomic unit leaves a natural even fat distribution. Leaving any area and treated like the back or the under arms which is often the case when the procedure is defined as abdomen 360 leads patients to have an abnormal fat distribution with the untreated areas as being the new problem areas.

When the procedure is done using local anesthesia there may be some restriction in how many areas can be treated in order to still stay within safe lidocaine doses.

Typically the limit is the amount of fat that can be removed in a single procedure.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD