Myths About Liposuction | The Plastic Surgeons | Bandra Mumbai

Liposuction is a good option for patients who have been unable to remove fat from specific areas of their bodies through normal exercise and healthy diet. It removes unwanted fat from target areas

(That typically include the chin, cheeks, neck, arms, legs, abdomen, hips, thighs, buttocks, knees, calves or ankles), leaving minimal scars approximately 1¼ cm long. 

Liposuction is one of the commonest aesthetic procedures performed in India. Here some of the most frequently debunked myths.

1. If I get liposuction to one area, fat will come back in other areas

It isn’t true. This is how it works.

 By the end of your adolescence, your body forms a certain number of fat cells that don’t multiple after that and they can only expand or shrink depending on your fat intake. So after liposuction, you have a fewer number of fat cells. You can still eat fatty foods and what fat cells you have left after liposuction will absorb that fat.

However, the fat that you take into your body isn’t smart enough to say, “oh, they did liposuction to the abdomen, so I’m going to go to the arms.” It doesn’t work that way. Your body is genetically predisposed to have more fat collect on the hips or the thighs or wherever. We’re all a little different. So whether you’ve had liposuction or not, fat will continue to deposit in those same areas. Simply having liposuction won’t change your genetic predisposition and therefore won’t change where your fat tends to deposit. It also a fact that after a liposuction performed in certain area, if you gain weight, it is very uncommon that you can get fat in the treated area like you used to do before liposuction.

2. Once I get liposuction, I can eat whatever I want and not get fat

You can, but you shouldn’t. Liposuction IS NOT a way to lose weight.  it is a way to motivate yourself to work harder to stay in shape. Eating more after liposuction won’t increase your number of fat cells, it’ll just make your REMAINING fat cells swell.

3. Liposuction can treat cellulite

Not possible. Cellulite, the dimpling often seen on the outer thighs near the buttocks is not caused by fat only. There are fibers that extend from the deep tissues of the thigh up to the skin. Those fibers pull on the undersurface of the skin, and the fat in between those fibers give the skin that characteristic dimpling. So if you only get rid of fat, the fibers and the dimples will still be there. The treatment is to cut the fibers. There are several treatments for this but the problem is that the fibers can regrow and reattach to the undersurface of the skin and it’s not clear how long the improvement lasts.

4.   You’re left with sagging skin after liposuction

Luckily, if you have good quality skin with lots of collagen and recoil, the skin will tighten after liposuction. But it’s also up to your surgeon to exercise good judgment to know when you have so much skin that you need the skin removed (like in a tummy tuck) vs. Liposuction only. And contrary to popular belief, laser liposuction does not tighten the skin better than regular liposuction.

5. Liposuction is an easy way to lose weight or cure obesity

While you certainly do lose a few pounds with aggressive liposuction, that’s not the point. Liposuction is there to help sculpt your body, not weight loss. In fact, removing too much fat in an effort to help you lose weight can be dangerous. By removing too much fluid, you can go into an extreme case of dehydration calling hypovolemic shock. Even if you don’t know exactly what that means, it certainly sounds bad. So don’t go through lipo to lose weight. Do it for the right reasons.

6. Anyone can perform liposuction.

Many general practitioners, beauty spas and other non-specialists do offer liposuction,

Often advertising bargain prices and quick results. But only a board-certified specialist in aesthetic plastic surgery is guaranteed to have the high level of training and expertise that will give you the best results.

At ThePlastic Surgeons, Dr. Vinay Jacob & team performs Liposuction surgery, he is considered as one of the best doctor for liposuction in Mumbai. He is not only nationally, but internationally recognized for his work.

ThePlastic Surgeons clinic in Bandra, Mumbai is the most cost-effective destination for your Liposuction Surgery procedure. Here Procedures are performed as per International standards at Indian prices.

The Plastic Surgeons

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