5'7, 130lbs, age 18, am I too young for stomach lipo?

Hi, thank you for sharing your question. Your age is not a limiting factor for liposuction surgery. If you are healthy enough to undergo surgery, then you can proceed.

Hello and thank you for your question.
You are not to young to have this procedure. It is hard to say if you are a candidate for liposuction without seeing you. Schedule a consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon to discuss your options. Best wishes!

Liposuction could be an excellent option for you as long as you are relatively healthy. I always recommend choosing a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon to do your procedure. If you would like to be seen here at Smith Plastic Surgery for a consultation, feel free to contact my office 702-838-2455

Localized liposuction can be very efficient. However, only on the basis of in person consultation, a board certified plastic surgeon could decide whether you are a good candidate. Good luck.

I would suggest meeting with a board-certified plastic surgeon, being examined, and discussing your concerns. Your surgeon can tell you if you are a good candidate for liposuction since you did not provide photos.

Yes you can do the Full body liposuction, as long as you are in good health and also have your parents/guardians permission. Doing liposuction would be able to get rid of the stubborn fat, flatten the abdomen as well as remove the fat on the waist in order to give you a better body countour with a good waist hip ratio. Also you can decide if you want to use that fat and augment your butt/breast/hips. You can schedule your free virtual consultation and continue your case assessment.

You can legally receive liposuction at age 18. The best place to begin is a consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon near you. During this important meeting you will talk about your goals for surgery, learn about the procedure, and be examined to determined if you are a good candidate. Pricing will also be provided. I've included a video about liposuction that I hope you find helpful.

At 18 at least in the United States, you are a legal adult and can make your own medical decisions. There is no right or wrong age for having Liposuction, but generally speaking younger individuals are better candidates for quality liposuction results than older individuals. Having tight skin with excess subcutaneous fat in undesirable areas is in a sense, the hallmark of Liposuction and the candidacy.
Without including pictures, we can’t begin to make an assessment and without an assessment, we can’t recommend a procedure. You may or may not be a good candidate for Liposuction.
Delivering consistent quality, liposuction, results is more difficult than most people realize. The number of plastic surgeons have mastered this procedure are in a small minority. There are a substantial number plastic surgeons with years of experience, board certification, and overall good reviews for simply not good at liposuction, and patients need to be very careful when choosing providers. If there’s one single important message to get across, it is the importance of provider selection, and never making assumptions when it comes to permanent irreversible body contouring procedures that can potentially leave people disfigured for life.
To get a quality assessment, better understanding of what the procedure can, and cannot accomplish and begin the process of finding the right provider I suggest having multiple in person, consultations with plastic surgeons in your community who seem to do a lot of Liposuction.It’s not a bad idea to have pictures of your body to bring with you for reference during a consultation. We don’t always remember exactly what our body looks like especially when reviewing before and after pictures.
During each consultation, ask each provider to open up their portfolio and show you their entire collection of before, and after pictures of previous patients, who had similar body characteristics to your own. When it comes to common procedures, like Liposuction and experience provider, should have no difficulty showing you the before, and after pictures of at least 15 previous patients.
Take careful notes during each consultation, especially regarding the quantity and quality of before and after pictures. Ideally, you should be shown what looks like an endless collection of results of patients who look just like you do. Being shown a handful of pre-selected images, representing the best results of a providers career is insufficient to get a clear understanding of what average results look like in the hands of that provider, or what the result of someone with your candidacy is likely to look like.
There’s no correct number of consultations needed to find the right provider. Considering how much variation there is an Liposuction, skill and experience among plastic surgeons, I recommend having at least five consultations before considering scheduling a permanent, irreversible body contouring procedure.
When in doubt, slow down and schedule more consultations. If obesity is your primary problem, then Liposuction is not really the right way to go. Liposuction is not going to permanently remove fat related to over eating. Patient who cannot mastered that they’re eating habits are probably not ideal candidate for Liposuction.
Don’t think I’m Liposuction is something that will kickstart motivation for weight loss. It is in fact the other way around. Liposuction that should be the reward for having done the work of losing the weight on your own first.
Individuals with significant obesity may develop skin laxity after successful weight loss. Skin laxity can be seen in some individuals with as little as 30 pounds of weight loss. Skin laxity is one of the major reasons patients fail to be a good candidate for Liposuction and the quality of someone’s skin, whether it’s due to laxity due to wait fluctuations, or elasticitie issues due to age it needs to be considered, because the skin quality as a major impact on the type of results someone could expect from the procedure.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom, MD

Hello, it would be nice to be able to see photos of your body first to have a presumptive diagnosis and thus be able to recommend which procedure would be right for you.