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JessicaD2446
2 years ago
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Liposuction before or after a lower body lift?

I'm having a full lower body lift with muscle repair and breast lift/augmentation and BBL (using fat from what was cut off)

He won't perform lipo while doing these procedures. Should I get the lipo to my upper waist and sides (or even just my sides) after? I am TERRIFIED that the lift will make me look like a big rectangle. I carry so much fat in my upper waist on my sides.

Procedure: Liposuction
Location: Montgomery, AL

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Nelson Castillo

Thank you for sharing your question. Best to ask your surgeon but I would perform the liposuction at the time of your lift, but if forced to stage, do the liposuction first and then the skin resection.

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Michael Freedland
ASPS Surgeon

Typically I perform a lot of liposuction at the same time as the abdominoplasty. This is what is referred to as the hour-glass lift. Lipo 360 is another procedure that just groups a lot of areas of liposuction together. It would make sense in your case (difficult to say exactly without evaluating you in person) performing Lipo 360 along with the hour-glass lift in conjunction with BBL.

When I perform BBL I want as much fat as possible AND I want to sculpt down the surrounding areas (love handles, inner & outer thighs) to accentuate the buttock further. This is the idea being lipo360, after all.

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