| Patients frequently ask if it is better to lose weight | | | | enhance areas that need enhancement, combining it |
| before having liposuction. The answer to this question | | | | with liposuction is true lipo-sculpture. Lipo-sculpture is |
| is directly linked to whether or not a patient is an | | | | completing liposuction, which is essentially a sculpture |
| appropriate candidate for liposuction. In the past, | | | | procedure at a patient's ideal body weight. |
| patients who did not fall within 10-15% of their ideal | | | | In the hands of a plastic surgeon with artistic skills and |
| body weight were turned away from the procedure | | | | adequately trained in body contouring, your trouble |
| and instructed to lose the weight first. This is no longer | | | | areas will not only disappear, they can be useful in |
| the case when curves are back in style and being a | | | | adding to your appeal with an improvement in contour |
| few pounds away from your ideal body weight is in. | | | | that will persist for some time even if you lose or gain |
| Liposculpture, the newest trend in liposuction, allows for | | | | a few pounds later. Actually patients who gain a few |
| the coupling of liposuction with lipotransfer. | | | | pounds (emphasis on few) will have a persistent |
| You are a candidate for liposculpture if you have | | | | improvement in the contouring effect of the procedure |
| pockets of excess fat in particular areas, even if you | | | | because the new pounds will end up getting evenly |
| do not fall within 10-15% of your ideal weight. Keep in | | | | distributed in your body instead of going back to the |
| mind that liposuction is not a substitute for weight | | | | old bulges. |
| reduction; it is a method of removing localized fat. | | | | A board certified plastic surgeon performing |
| Liposuction is a technique to remove unwanted fat | | | | liposculpture can turn patients who are more |
| deposits from specific areas of the body including the | | | | than10-15% of their ideal body weight into appropriate |
| chin, neck and cheeks, the upper arms and above the | | | | candidates for liposculpture. Although liposculpture can |
| breasts, the abdomen, buttocks, hips and thighs and | | | | enhance your appearance and your self-confidence |
| the knees, calves and ankles. It essentially eliminates | | | | regardless of your weight, it will not necessarily change |
| the bulges and brings the areas that are "liposuctioned" | | | | your looks to match your ideal, or cause other people |
| into a balance with the untreated surrounding areas. | | | | to treat you differently. Before you decide to have |
| Lipotransfer on the other hand is a technique that | | | | surgery, think carefully about your expectations and |
| allows your surgeon to enhance areas that need | | | | discuss them with your surgeon. |
| enhancement by injecting the liposuctioned fat into fat | | | | Look at today's celebrity bodies, and you'll notice that |
| deficient areas. With lipo-sculpture, you may want to | | | | Paris Hilton's model thin body can no longer compete |
| lose the weight at some point yet it does not matter | | | | with Kim Kardashian's curves. With liposculpture, your |
| whether you do it before or after the surgery. You | | | | physician can shift those pounds to where they can |
| should be physically healthy and psychologically stable | | | | enhance instead of detract from your shape. The |
| and have firm elastic skin which will result in a better | | | | concept is simple, skinny is out and curves are in. |
| final contour. Since lipotransfer in simple terms means | | | | Coupling liposuction with lipotransfer is liposculpture. A |
| taking the fat from areas you don't need it to be in and | | | | new way you can look good this summer no matter |
| delivering it to where you do (your face or your | | | | how much you weigh. |
| buttocks), you don't need to be your ideal weight to be | | | | 2010 is all about shape. |
| a candidate for lipo-scultupre. Lipo-transfer is a way to | | | | |