When is Liposuction the right answer?

Yesterday I did a liposuction operation on a young woman here at my Plastic Surgery Center in Santa Barbara.  She was in her mid 30’s, and she’s going to get a great result because she was an excellent candidate for the operation.  A lot of my patients come to the office looking for a change in their body form, often in the abdominal region.  Some patients are excellent candidates for the liposuction procedure, and some are better off with actual excisional body contouring plastic surgery.  Often I spend a good deal of time explaining the difference.

Liposuction is a process where extra fat is removed- literally “suckedâ€� out of the areas where it has inappropriately accumulated- without significant manipulation of the overlying skin. (more…)