I was told by doctors all my life that there was no medical or surgical treatment that could rid me of or even improve the look of my "elephant ankles". I didn't even know that there was a medical term for my condition. I almost cried when I saw the episode on Celebrity Plastic Surgeons of Beverly Hills where Dr Amron helped that lovely lady with this condition. Is there any way to get a general sense of how much it would cost? Judging from what I've read, I believe that I have type lll lipodema.
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Dear Lora,Smart Lipo is a tool that we use in liposuction and I use it myself in a specific way. Rather than paying so much attention to the tools that are being used, more importantly is the evaluation of the patient with lipedema. My experience with lipedema is almost always a circumferential...
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I would recommend that you see a board certified plastic surgeon in your area who specializes in aesthetic and restorative plastic surgery and who is also a member of The American Society of Plastic Surgery. You can look at before/after pictures on their we...
Hello and thank you for your question. It is a little difficult to tell from the photos you provided to determine if you have lipedema. There is more information that would be necessary to obtain. To begin with, I’d like to see better photographs of you that show the entire ankle area. S...
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