Saturday, October 08, 2005

Popular Summertime Cosmetic Surgery Procedures

During the summer, when people plan their beach outings, many women worry about what swimsuit to wear to hide their not so perfect bodies. Others, after struggling through summers of camouflage and wishing for better bodies, consider liposuction and breast augmentation, two of the most popular summer time cosmetic surgery procedures. Many patients are mothers who, after giving birth, never have been able to get back to their pre-pregnancy bodies. Liposuction results in a flatter abdomen and slimmer waist line while breast augmentation restores the volume that is sometimes lost as a result of pregnancy and lactation.

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Are you a Good Candidate for Liposuction?

To be a good candidate for liposuction, you should be in good physical health, near your ideal body weight (only 10 or 20 pounds overweight) and have good skin elasticity. You should exercise regularly and eat healthy well-balanced meals. You may have an area on your body that exercise and dieting has been unable to reduce. Such a localized fatty deposit is perfect for liposuction. Liposuction is not a cure for obesity. There is a limit of fat tissue that can be removed safely from the human body.

You should also be psychologically stable, and realistic in your expectations. You may think having liposuction will make you look like your ideal or give you a perfect body. You may think that people will treat you differently or that you will be a happier person after your liposuction. These are unrealistic expectations. Good results will help you increase your self-confidence but you won't necessarily get your ideal body.


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Liposuction Surgery
How to Select a Qualified Plastic Surgeon
The Cosmetic Surgery Scene in the Philippines

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Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Philippines
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and having affordable cosmetic plastic surgery in the Philippines


Liposuction vs. Abdominoplasty

Many men and women struggle with unwanted fat. At times, even after months of diet and exercise, it is difficult to eliminate fat specially in problem areas such as the hips, thighs, stomach, and neck. For the abdomen and waist areas, options to remove fat include liposuction and abdominoplasty (also known as the tummy tuck). Which procedure is best?

Depending on the amount of excess fat to be removed, I would consider abdominal liposuction as the preferred initial procedure. It is an excellent method of spot reduction which involves removing fat tissue by a suctioning technique (with a special machine), and contouring the body area to obtain the desired shape. Liposuction takes a few hours and the patient is able to walk around immediately after the procedure. It may be done as an outpatient procedure, minimizing costs.

Abdominal skin contracts remarkably after liposuction. If there is loose skin still remaining after 6 months, this can be easily removed as an outpatient surgery procedure under local anesthesia only.

Abdominal liposuction entails less risk than a tummy-tuck. The surgical removal of excess skin and fat in the tummy tuck operation involves a wide curvilinear incision from the left side to the right side, mobilization of the skin from the pubic region up to the ribs, and placing of drains. It is an in-patient hospital procedure which takes from 2 to 6 hours under general anesthesia. The patient stays in the hospital from 5 to 7 days.

Read more of these articles:
Liposuction Surgery
How to Select a Qualified Plastic Surgeon
The Cosmetic Surgery Scene in the Philippines

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Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Philippines
Information about procedures, prices, selecting a qualified surgeon
and having affordable cosmetic plastic surgery in the Philippines


Breast Augmentation for Asians

Breast augmentation is very popular among Asians and many of my patients are Filipinas whose partners are Caucasians. Since Asian women are generally small framed and small breasted when compared to Caucasian women, relatively smaller breast implants may be recommended. If the implants are too large, they may not look natural and in proportion to the particular patient's body. In my initial consultation with patients, I discuss the various options that are available to the patient, including the look the patient hopes to achieve. In good cosmetic surgery, the goal is to enhance, with a result that is as natural as possible and not glaringly noticeable.

Read more of these articles:
Breast Augmentation
How to Select a Qualified Plastic Surgeon
The Cosmetic Surgery Scene in the Philippines

Please feel free to email Dr. Lasa if you have any questions.

Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Philippines
Information about procedures, prices, selecting a qualified surgeon
and having affordable cosmetic plastic surgery in the Philippines