Amount of Fat Removed During Liposuction | Dr. Daniel Shapiro

Dr. Dan Shapiro is a plastic surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He has been practicing cosmetic or aesthetic plastic surgery in the Scottsdale Paradise Valley area since 1992 and all he performs is cosmetic or aesthetic plastic surgery.

He does a lot of body contouring surgery and liposuction. He went to Columbia a couple of times to learn what the foremost master of high-def liposuction is. I do a lot of Safe liposuction, that's an acronym for a certain kind of liposuction that has been popularized by a surgeon down in Louisiana. Both of those procedures promote skin tightening, and allows me to contour you and set up just removing volume.
Any of these procedures, the number one thing is to do it safely, and is very technique-dependent, and it's also decision-dependent. A lot of patients ask, "Doctor Shapiro is there a limit to how much liposuction that I can do for you?" The answer to the question is yes. He won't do more than 5,000 cc at one time, which is roughly about 11 pounds, and why that is, is that our society, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Plastic Surgery mandates that you shouldn't do more than 5,000 cc in one sitting. When there is more than 2,500, 3,000 cc we often like to have you stay up the night in a facility, so we can watch you. We want to make sure that this is safe, relatively risk-less procedure for you.
Anything can always happen at surgery and you know that, but really good decisions are to make it safe for you so you get great results. What are the problems that could happen? You could have a pulmonary embolus, you could bleed, all those sort of things you read about, but all in all, we think that 5,000 cc at one sitting is really what you should limit, that's not to say that I can't do 5,000 cc and then do 5,000 cc later, but you have to ask yourself, is this really a candidate for liposuction? Now the good thing is that liposuction has shown to decrease insulin needs in patients. It helps with diabetes so there are a lot of medical benefits from liposuction, but really primarily it's an aesthetic procedure that gives you a much more contoured result that makes you feel prettier, but there are limits, and good sense dictates that we really shouldn't more than 5,000 cc at one sitting. It can be done in stages, and he very infrequently will do that, but occasionally he has.


For more information about finding the right surgeon to perform your liposuction, you can contact us by visiting our site http://www.shapiroplasticsurgery.com/ or contact us using the information below.

Shapiro Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and Skin Klinic
5410 N. Scottsdale Rd. Building F-100
Scottsdale, AZ 85253
Phone: (480)-451-1700