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Liposuction Orange County
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Question: I just want some information. Is it possible for a surgeon to make an
incision, say, about 8 inches in radius, around the belly-button, then
peel the skin back, and scoop out the fat, throw it away, and just stitch
the skin back together? I mean, if they can reduce breast size, doing
basically the same thing (and a breast is much more complicated than
stomach-fat, what with glands and milk ducts and what-have-you), why can't
they do same on stomach fat?
I am about 70 pounds over-weight, and one doctor told me it is almost
entirely concentrated on my stomach. I am skinny almost everywhere else,
but I have this giant pot-belly.
Another doctor, a plastic surgeon, told me that the fat-removal I
envisioned was impractical, that, instead, I should just follow an
exercise/diet program. well, I do exercise quite a bit (don't diet,
though) and the pot doesn't get any smaller! I think he just said that
because he doesn't want his patients to take the "easy" way out.
is this type of surgery possible? to slice thrugh the skin and just take
out handfulls of fat?
Answer: There are important blood vessels in the way that make that surgery
tricky. You are correct this is the wrong place to ask the question.
There is such a thing as high volume liposuction. It is also kind of
dangerous. Talk to a plastic surgeon about it.
Recently here in California a woman was killed while undergoing a large quanity
liposuction. Apparently the doctor removed so much fat it broke up into tiny
globules and went into the womans lungs and killed her. The doctor and
anethesiologist are on trial for not following established plastic surgery
protocols. There is more info available on the case through the Orange County
Register newspaper. Be careful!
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