Is Lipo Quick Weight Loss?
May 9th, 2011
Earlier in my career, I had the unique opportunity to be interviewed on television by Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold about liposuction. Looking at the photo today, I don’t remember my hair ever being so dark, absent of all the gray!
Although the segment was meant to be light-hearted, I was able to convey my thoughts about why liposuction is not safe for patients that are not close to their ideal weight. But as the weather turns warm in the Twin Cities, I usually have an uptick in consultations for liposuction. Liposuction is proven to be a safe and an effective procedure to remove localized areas of fat, under certain conditions.
Unfortunately, liposuction is not a quick fix for having too many unwanted pounds. Most patients do take my recommendations in stride to get within a good 15-20 pound range of their ideal weight, before I will seriously consider doing their surgery. However, I suspect that a few patients leave my office and look elsewhere.
Liposuction is popular. It is frequently used as an important tool in body sculpture surgeries, but patient selection is paramount regarding safety. According to The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), of the 9 million cosmetic procedures done last year, almost 300,000 patients had liposuction.
Nipntucks for Men Gain Popularity
May 2nd, 2011
I was interviewed for an article about cosmetic surgery and male patients. Here is an excerpt from the article written by Bill Ward, reporter for the Minneapolis StarTribune. Click below for a link to the article in its entirety.
April 28, 2011
Plastic surgery has a new face, and it’s more Joe the Plumber than Joan Rivers.
Last year saw nationwide increases in face-lifts (14 percent), liposuction (7 percent) and even breast reductions (6 percent) among men, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Men got 13 percent of the nation’s cosmetic surgeries in 2010, compared with 8 percent in 2008.
As procedures have become more affordable — a big boon because insurance plans don’t typically cover nipntucks — more “regular guys” and “man’s men” are getting cosmetic work done.
Dr. Ralph Bashioum of Wayzata has noticed a similar pecking order: “You might see a man get a liposuction this year in advance of a beach vacation next year.” The contributing factors are old (vanity dates at least to Narcissus) and new (Botox is largely a 21st-century phenomenon). But men loathe talking about it publicly. “Men are more private about this than women,” Bashioum said. “It might be (secretive) like this kind of surgery was for women 20 years ago.” But they’re still showing up at plastic surgeons’ offices for eyelid lifts, cheek implants and earlobe reductions.
Read reporter Bill Ward’s entire article at StarTribune.com.
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