There is a story about botched surgery for a thin woman (http://www.realself.com/review/smart-lipo-thin-surgery-sacramento) who says never to do lipo when your're only needing small contouring improvements. Do you agree that exercise and diet is a better path? Was her outcome the fault of the procedure or the doctor?.
June 22, 2011
Answer: Liposuction is for contouring localized fat not overall fat reduction
Regardless of technique, whether laser lipo such as Smart Lipo, VASER, or other techniques, liposuction is for removal of localized areas of fat that are resistant to change with diet and exercise. If the fat goes away with diet and exercise then liposuction would be inappropriate, whether you are skinny or have a more average body. Judging from the pictures posted and the description, my guess is that the patient was expecting skin tightening which does not occur to a significant degree with lipo even with laser. I realize that there are studies showing measureable skin tightening but the degree of tightening is not what we would call "clinically significant."
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June 22, 2011
Answer: Liposuction is for contouring localized fat not overall fat reduction
Regardless of technique, whether laser lipo such as Smart Lipo, VASER, or other techniques, liposuction is for removal of localized areas of fat that are resistant to change with diet and exercise. If the fat goes away with diet and exercise then liposuction would be inappropriate, whether you are skinny or have a more average body. Judging from the pictures posted and the description, my guess is that the patient was expecting skin tightening which does not occur to a significant degree with lipo even with laser. I realize that there are studies showing measureable skin tightening but the degree of tightening is not what we would call "clinically significant."
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November 6, 2018
Answer: Skinny women do great with liposuction! Skinny women just need to get lipo done by a doc who does it under tum. local with the micro canulas since the fine tuning is best this way. Your doc can really sculpt the areas nicely with these tiny canulas where if your doc tried to do it with the larger canulas then it looks terrible.
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November 6, 2018
Answer: Skinny women do great with liposuction! Skinny women just need to get lipo done by a doc who does it under tum. local with the micro canulas since the fine tuning is best this way. Your doc can really sculpt the areas nicely with these tiny canulas where if your doc tried to do it with the larger canulas then it looks terrible.
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