Can Liposuction make it easier to reveal your abdominal muscles?

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I believe the reason some men are more prone to abdominal fat than others, is because they have more fat cells in the area. Even, if lipo cannot directly reveal your abs, it reduces the # of fat cells by the billions, thus making it easier to reveal you abdominal muscles on your own with dieting and exercise. Also, the fat removed by lipo is subcutaneous, which is the one that prevents people from seeing their abdominal muscles. The only benefit of lipo is the reduction of fat cells.

Andrew P. Amunategui, MD · Answer

Kane, It is true that excess body fat in the tummy area will tend to hide or obscure muscle definition.  Imagine a male model in a magazine with great abs.  If he were to put on a thick sweater, you would not see his abs.  Body fat acts in the same way.  The lower your body fat content, the more muscular definition and vascularity you show!  Of course, you must have the underlying abdominal muscle development to show! See attached link.  Good luck!

Vincent N. Zubowicz, MD · Answer

If you do have good muscle tone liposuction can help demonstrate this. Increase caliber of skin and fat will camouflage muscular contours of the body.

Darryl J. Blinski, MD · Answer

Seems you answered you own question. To what point I do not quite understand. But yes lipo removes ONLY subq fat cells.......

John A. Millard, MD, FACS · Answer

Great question!  Yes, you can improve your abdominal muscle definition one of two ways, first with aggressive liposuction over your muscles, and second with what is called VASER Hi Def.  VASER Hi Def has had great success in improving muscle definition and would be something that I would recommend looking into.  It is a procedure that uses all of your muscles as a template, sculpting the fat over and between your muscles to enhance the appearance of definition in and around your abdominal muscles.

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