Weight History and Lipo Surgery

When consulting for the first time with a cosmetic surgeon, be prepared to provide the doctor with information about your general health and medical past, as well as your weight history. The surgeon will want to get as much personal history from you as possible to determine if Smart Lipo surgery is right for you and, if so, which method of body sculpting will be most effective in the long-term. This means gathering details about your weight and fitness, and how they may have changed over the years. Knowing this will give you the best odds of receiving appropriate treatment, a smooth recovery and attractive results, whichever one of the available lipo procedures you choose.

A physician may want to know some of the following about your weight history:

• The frequency and intensity of exercise
• Your present level of fitness and past fitness
• What you weighed at your heaviest and lightest
• Weight loss and gain patterns
• Last 12 months of weight history
• Pregnancies, how much weight you gained, how you lost it and how quickly
• Current methods of weight management

If weight has been an issue in the past, talk to your doctor about things you can do to stabilize your weight before and after lipo surgery to ensure the best results.

Eye surgeons and general surgeons have for years used laser technology because it has been found to be safe and highly effective in certain surgical applications. So it makes sense that this technology would make its way into cosmetic treatments such as lipo procedures, where doctors are constantly seeking ways to make treatment less invasive and reduce risks.

This expansion in the use of laser technology has made its way into liposuction. What is Smart Lipo, for example? This procedure uses a laserized cannula to turn fat into liquid for easy removal. The small size of the cannula means this procedure is less invasive and carries fewer risks of injury and complications.

Of course, no one body sculpting technique is right for 100 percent of our patients. In addition to exploring what is Smart Lipo, one can ask about wet, superwet and large-volume and Vaser liposuction, LipoSelection, just to name a few. Cascades MedSpa give clients the flexibility to explore options in cosmetic treatments. Talk to us about which are appropriate for you.