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Can I Get Liposuction on My Whole Body?

By George Solomon | Published on April 1, 2010 | 0 Comments

If you have questions about liposuction, then Dr. George Solomon is the person to talk to. A respected surgeon in practice at AgeLess MediSpa in Port Orange, Florida, Dr. Solomon has spent years working to improve the effectiveness of all types of liposuction procedures and techniques. In this article, the surgeon explains whether it’s possible for patients to use liposuction across their whole body to achieve a more lean, toned physique.

It’s definitely possible that a person could get liposuction over his whole body, but that kind of procedure couldn’t be done in just one day. Instead, we would have to do something like that in stages — and it would probably require several stages and many appointments before the entire process was complete.

The exact amount of time that it would take to remove excess fat from a person’s whole body would really kind of depend on the amount of fat that we were removing. For someone who is very large, we would probably need to schedule one appointment for every two or three months, something like that. However, if we were working with a patient who just wants a small amount of fat taken off from each place on her body, then the area that we are reducing is smaller and therefore we would be able to schedule the appointments a little more closely together.

What people have to think about when they discuss this topic is that when we perform liposuction on someone, we aren’t just taking out the fat. When you take a large amount of volume out of someone’s body, you are also taking the fluids that are in that fat with it. Removing too much of those fluids can effect the hemodynamics of your body’s system, and you really don’t want to get that off by too much. So that’s why you would need to schedule your liposuction appointments further apart depending exactly how much fat and fluids you were having taken out.

Aside from that issue, though, the thing that’s beneficial for people to know is that there really aren’t any parts of your body that can’t be reduced with the help of liposuction. Any area where there is fat, you can do liposuction to reduce it — whether that’s the face, the arms, the neck, or anywhere else.

With that said, though, people need to remember that liposuction is not a diet. It is not a mode of diet or a weight-loss plan. That last part is important, because if you eat unhealthy food after undergoing liposuction then that weight and that fat will come back.

Although I’ve said we can do liposuction across the whole body, people need to realize that the true reason for liposuction is to help people with something called lipodystrophy. Lipodystrophy is when you have an abnormal area where fat cells are collecting in a fashion that does not match up with the rest of the body. So around the midsection, for example, some women build excess fat. That would be a reason for liposuction. But an interest in general weight loss is not a good reason for liposuction.

For another example, take someone who may be thin overall but maybe she has a little bigger thighs that don’t seem to match up with the rest of her body, or something like that. If she has an area where the fat has accumulated on her thighs, then that might not even go away with just exercise and diet alone, so liposuction would be a good thing for this person to try. But if she just wanted to lose 10 pounds overall, then obviously she should not try liposuction because as soon as she starts eating high caloric food again, that 10 pounds is going to come right back.

At the same time, patients need to make sure they are working with a doctor who understands that he shouldn’t be taking too much fat off, either. When we do liposuction, we try to not take away all the fat—what we call the superficial fat. We don’t want to overdo that. The reason is because you always want to have an area between the skin and the subcutaneous tissue, and the surrounding organs or muscles, where there is a layer of fat.

If you hold the skin on the part of your body where the liposuction has taken place and less than half a centimeter is in between your thumb and index finger, then your doctor has probably taken out too much. So that has to do with finding a good doctor who knows what he is doing and understands how much is too much fat to take out for your own health and safety issues.

The information in the article is not intended to substitute for the medical expertise and advice of your healthcare provider. We encourage you to discuss any decisions about treatment or care with an appropriate healthcare provider.

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