Orange County Plastic Surgeon Q & A

Ask Doctor Grover – Advantages to Liposuction vs. SmartLipo

Many new trends exist for liposuction. Ultimately, you can get wonderful results with any technique, but be careful, because you can also get less than satisfactory results with any technique. Firstly, I would submit to you to try and seek liposuction with a Board Certified plastic surgeon, certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery.  A good place to start is at surgery.org, the website for The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.  Ask your surgeon if they feel they perform their liposuction with smart lipo/laser assistance only or do they also employ some form of ‘true’ liposuction along with it to aspirate the fat.  Some surgeons will first perform some form of traditional liposuction first and then introduce the smart lipo probe under the skin to try and heat up the skin to try and get better skin contraction.  The jury is still out….but being investigated.

For more information, contact Orange County Plastic Surgeon Dr. Sanjay Grover.