Category: buccal lipectomy | liposuction | plastic surgery case study

Case Study: Thinning the Round Face

Background: The shape of one’s face is influenced by many bony and soft tissue elements. The size of the facial bones and the prominence or deficiency of the lower jaw provides a support framework that serves as a foundation. The soft tissue that drapes over the bones also plays a major role in its Read More…

Does Fat Return After Having Liposuction?

Liposuction is very effective at removing unwanted fat from just about everywhere. But once it is removed, does the fat come back and, if so, where does it go? These questions are very commonly asked from potential patients about the afterworld of liposuction. There are numerous urban myths about the potential for fat to Read More…

Case Study: Secondary Liposuction After Tummy Tuck Surgery

Background: Tummy tucks, or an abdominoplasty, is one of the successfully proven methods of abdominal and waistline contouring. The foundation of a tummy tuck is the removal of a segment of loose skin and fat, a horizontal ellipse that is taken out below (mini-tummy tuck) or above the umbilicus. (full tummy tuck) Other adjunctive Read More…

Myths and Misconceptions about Laser Liposuction (Smartlipo)

Smartlipo has become a very popular body contouring procedure that attracts the interest of many people with fat deposits that have proven refractory to their best efforts. As a technologic advance and with a very trendy name, Smartlipo does offer certain advantages in the reduction/removal of stubborn and unsightly fat. The internet is full Read More…

Smartlipo, Laser Lipolysis and Why It Can Produce Better Liposuction Results

The technique of laser lipolysis has been one of the more well known and popular advancements in liposuction surgery in the past decade. Branded now as Smartlipo (although this is just one manufacturer), it is the addition of laser wavelengths to the liposuction process. Anytime the technology of laser is applied to any surgical Read More…

Understanding the Association of Smartlipo with Local Anesthesia

Liposuction continues to be one of the most popular plastic surgery procedures. Due to the abundance of numerous fat sites for treatment, its widespread use shows no sign of slowing down. With this popularity has come numerous methods to improve this body reshaping process. Technologies have largely focused on more efficient methods of fat Read More…

Complications from Laser Liposuction (Smartlipo)

There has been an influx of patients who have presented for treatment of secondary problems after undergoing laser liposuction. While liposuction has been around for almost 30 years, its traditional method of the manual loosening of fat has seen some recent technologic advances. One of these is the heating or melting of the fat Read More…

Case Study: Secondary Liposuction after a Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty)

Background: A tummy tuck is the most successful body contouring operation in plastic surgery that we know. Its dramatic removal of excess skin and fat, and vertical rectus muscle tightening, produces an outcome that patient’s can not otherwise achieve on their own. While there is a resultant scar, that is a worthwhile trade-off in Read More…

Avoiding Irregularities in Abdominal Liposuction

Liposuction is one of the most popular of all cosmetic procedures due to the ubiquity of excess fat. Of all liposuction procedures, the stomach or abdominal area is the most common area of treatment. While highly effective at removing abdominal fat, irregularities after abdominal liposuction are not rare. Second to that of the inner Read More…

Liposuction of the Muffin Top Waistline Deformity

While the overflowing muffin top may be the best tasting part of this baked good, partaking of too many and too often of these tasty delights will eventually give you a permanent one of your own. Many people, men and women alike, struggle with the muffin top fat deformity. With a well recognized name, Read More…