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Micro Liposuction
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Question: LOVE handles, saddlebags, turkey wattle. Self-conscious women have been
trying to reduce those body areas for years. But now, with more
efficient diets and fitness routines, women are turning to more obscure
anatomical zones. The newest worries? "Bra fat" and "back fat."
So what do they do with all the fat?
Can anyone give me some suggestion?
Answer: Micro liposuction can take a few ounces off the knees.
A friend of mine has an hourglass figure that attracts whistles
as she walks along the street. To get rid of the back fat, she tried
working out - "like a lunatic," she said - five days a week. Then,
she enrolled in Weight Watchers. When neither worked, she turned to
plastic surgery.
Last August, she had liposuction on her lower back around her waistline,
and in January, she had liposuction again, this time on her mid- and
upper-back to eliminate "bra fat," bulges that can occur when "your bra
pushes lumps of fat down your back and up over the bra fastening and to
the sides right near your arms," Dr said.
The total fee for both procedures, $10,000, was well worth it, she said.
Last year, Americans had about 455,000 liposuction operations, making
fat removal the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure, according to
the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. But in the last two
to three years, liposuction, once used predominantly to reduce the
flabby abdomens, hips and thighs of average Americans, has become a tool
to enhance the near-perfect body parts of the already fit.
For this designer-body approach, an increasing number of doctors are
using a technique known variously as precision, selective or micro
liposuction. The goal is to remove an ounce or three of fat from ankles,
knees, chins, necks, backs and upper arms, according to some prominent
plastic surgeons and dermatologists.
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