subject: How Much Fat Can My Surgeon Remove During My Liposuction? [print this page] Lots of people are excited about liposuction (also known as lioplasty and suction lipectomy). This surgery is a cosmetic procedure which removes fat from the body by suctioning it away. In fact, the word liposuction means "the suction of fat." Given that Americans, by and large, seem to be getting larger, while their physical ideal seems to be getting ever slimmer and trimmer, it comes as no surprise that there is significant demand for this surgery. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans undergo this surgery.
A number of people regard this surgery as a solution to all of their weight loss problems. After all, what could be easier than simply going into a surgeon's office overweight, spending a few hours on an operating table and emerging the slim, trim, sexy self you always wanted to be? Unfortunately, lipoplasty is not quite this much of a magic bullet that some believe it to be.
Although the surgery can indeed successfully remove fat from people's bodies, and although there are millions of people who have successfully improved their appearance using this surgery, the surgery does have its limitations. One of the main limitations that it has is that it can only remove a certain amount of fat at a time.
Although surgeons make the fat removal process as gentle as possible, the body nonetheless interprets the procedure as an attack. And the more fat is removed, the more the body can overreact. If too much fat is removed, the body can easily go into shock or suffer other serious consequences.
Having too much fat removed can also impair the aesthetic results of your surgery. As surgeons remove more and more fat, they have less control over how the body will heal, and there's a greater risk that something could go wrong. When large volumes of fat are removed it can be easier to develop blemishes like rippling, dimpling, or developing large amounts of loose excess skin.
The exact rules of how much fat a surgeon can remove in one surgery varies from place to place. Some states have no laws regarding this. Others do. The surgeons themselves are somewhat d|ut there is certainly no unanimous verdict regarding where that point is.
One school of thought suggests that the maximum fat that can be removed in a surgeon's office is around four pounds, while the maximum that should be removed in a hospital setting is eight pounds. However, not all agree to this idea.
