Can Liposuction Treat Obesity?

With more than thirty percent of American adults suffering from the problem of obesity

and liposuction becoming more and more popular every day, some obese patients wonder if finally they can bid goodbye to the fat that stands between them and their beauty, and stops them from enjoying many physical activities. Unfortunately, lipoplasty may not be the right solution for this problem.

In the late 1990s, a national news television showed surgeons from Virginia claiming they could treat obesity with liposuction. However, there are many much more experienced and reputed doctors who believe otherwise.

Trying to solve the problem of obesity by liposuction, known as megaliposuction or simply megasuction, is inappropriate not only because obese patients almost always regain the fat they lose through liposuction but also because they can develop some serious medical complications after the surgery. By removing more than about ten pounds of fat in a day, one might just be inviting other serious health problems.

In obese patients, much bigger cannula, a metal or plastic instrument that is inserted between skin and muscle to extract the fat, is used to compensate for the large amount of fat that is to be removed. After the fat is removed, there is also a high chance of ripples and rides mostly in upper and inner thigh areas being left behind. Megasuction also can result in constrictive bands and skin folds which for some patients as big of a problem as the fat they just got rid of. Surgical incision or excision of the bands is sure to leave the patients with scars.

Lipoplasty might be useful to those who are determined to start dieting and exercising after the surgery so that the fat never gets chance to get back on their body. Still the risks are too many and chances of success too slim to try to treat obese patients with liposuction. But for those over-weight people who want to get rid of fat from certain parts of their body like hip or thigh, this procedure might prove to be as effective as to anyone else.

It might be wise of the obese people to watch out the amount of calorie they intake and to look for their running shoes than to hope for liposuction to be able to solve their problem of obesity one day. Dieting and exercise are by far cheaper and better answers than this procedure to get rid of the unwanted fat.

by: Christian Heftel

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