Recovering from liposuction marks an important milestone in refining your body’s contours and enhancing your silhouette. Understanding the physical changes, activity guidelines, and follow-up care you may experience in the first 30 days can help you feel empowered throughout the healing process. At UMass Memorial Cosmetic Surgery Center, Dr. Janice Lalikos, MD, is a board-certified plastic surgeon with […]
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The Most Popular Areas to Get Liposuction (and Why)
Stubborn fat has a way of clinging to all the wrong places. It disregards your workout schedule and scoffs at your healthy meal prep. That’s why many people turn to liposuction — a cosmetic surgery that permanently removes fat cells to refine your shape and enhance your contours. At UMass Memorial Cosmetic Surgery Center, each procedure is […]
How Safe Is Liposuction?
Along with causing negative effects on your confidence and self-image, excess and stubborn body fat may keep you from enjoying certain activities or having the lifestyle you want. By reducing or eliminating this stubborn body fat, you can gain the confidence and ability to do more activities and see all of the health benefits of […]
Why Can’t I Have All My Fat Removed During Liposuction?
Liposuction has been safely performed for decades to help people get rid of stubborn and unwanted body fat. There are minimal risks with the procedure, and the fat is removed permanently, with the results being noticed nearly right after the surgery. During a surgical procedure under general anesthesia, your surgeon inserts a small cannula through […]
Can I Get a Tummy Tuck Without Liposuction?
Especially around the midsection and abdomen, stubborn body fat can be challenging to eliminate and may keep you from achieving the shape and look you desire. Although a healthy diet and adequate exercise are necessary to reduce overall body fat, they alone do not always eliminate enough fat around the abdomen. If you are looking […]
How Liposuction Can Positively Change Your Life
More than 20 years after its initial use as a surgical way to remove body fat liposuction has become one of the most common cosmetic surgery procedures. Although whole-body liposuction is no longer approved, liposuction can remove a significant amount of fat from localized areas and help you reach the aesthetic goals you want. In […]
Liposuction and Your Unwanted Fat
You know you have them, we all do — unwanted pockets of fat that, no matter what you do, don’t respond to your efforts. They’re kind of like a two-year-old screaming and writhing about on the floor of the candy aisle at Shaw’s because he can’t have the giant Reese’s. You can do thousands of […]
Liposuction Recovery: When Can I Go To The Gym Again?
What a great question! Did you know that Liposuction (also referred to as Lipo) is not a procedure that is designed for weight loss? People commonly confuse Liposuction for a weight loss treatment, but the best candidates for this procedure are those who have stubborn pockets of fat that stick around no matter what, even […]
Will I Gain Back Fat After Liposuction? The Truth Revealed
If you have excess fat around your middle section, upper thighs, or buttocks that you just can’t get rid of with exercise and diet alone, then you may want to consider getting liposuction from the doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Group. By surgically scraping off and then suctioning the fat from your body, you will […]
Can I Travel By Plane After Liposuction?
Liposuction is the most popular cosmetic surgery in the country. The popularity of the procedure may be attributed to the introduction of newer techniques resulting in minimal downtime and reduced risks. For those contemplating liposuction, many wonder if they will be able to travel by plane after their procedure. Risks of air travel following liposuction […]