Can dents 1 year post liposuction be corrected?

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I had liposuction around 1 year 2 months ago. I noticed there’s 2 places where my skin has dents and from the side the one that sticks out in two places has made me feel like a freak and has made me extremely depressed and considered life is not worth living anymore. My surgeon said he cannot correct this and could only do lipo on my other side to make it look like the same. But I don’t want both sides of my stomach to be messed up. Is there anyway to correct this?

Mark Eberbach, MD · Answer

First thing, this can absolutely be corrected. It appears that you have accessory nipples with underlying breast tissue on the side.

The more important issue is your concern about life not worth living.

The first step is to talk to your doctor and get a consultation with a psychiatrist immediately.

Good luck.

Mats Hagstrom, MD (license on probation) · Answer

To make a quality assessment on the outcome of the plastic surgery procedure we generally need to see quality before and after pictures. If you don’t have proper before, and after pictures and ask your surgeon to forward, the pictures they took. Revision surgery can improve Liposuction results. Debility to improve the outcome. Depends a lot on how the first procedure was performed and if you were a good candidate for Liposuction in the first place. If the initial procedure was done, aggressively removing too much fat, especially on individuals who are not good candidates for Liposuction, such as individuals with a lot of skin, laxity the chance of improving the outcome significantly is for less.Revision work is definitely far more complex difficult and unpredictable than primary Liposuction. The need for provider selection goes without saying. The number of plastic surgeons who’ve master Liposuction are in a small minority. There are substantial number of plastic surgeons who simply aren’t good at this procedure. To find the best providers I suggest having multiple in person consultations. 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. An experienced plastic surgeon should have no difficulty showing you the before and after pictures of at least 50 previous patients. Take careful notes during each consultation, especially regarding the quality and quantity of before and after pictures. Bing showed 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 each provider. This is why seeing a lot of before and after pictures is so important. Since your vision work is far more difficult than primary liposuction, they need to find the right provider is imperative. Attempting to improve Liposuction results is generally done by revision Liposuction.(removing more fat.) fat, transfer(adding fat) or a combination of both.If that transfer is indicated, you need to vent to providers not only in their liposuction skills transfer skills. Fat transfer results look very different long-term than they do right after the procedure. If anyone is showing you before and after pictures of previous accomplished fat transfer results always confirm the timeframe of when after pictures were taken. After pictures are not representative until at least 3 to 6 months from the date of surgery.Continue having consultations until you feel confident you found the right provider to be working with. This is by far the single most important variable.Most patients do not have nearly enough consultations and don’t do a good job for choosing providers.In the end, your surgeon is responsible for the outcome of the procedure and likewise, you are responsible for choosing that provider.Best,Mats Hagstrom, MD

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