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Lipo Dissolve
August 13, 2007
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Plastic and cosmetic surgeries are topics of growing interest for people of
all demographics.
Plastic Surgeon John Bruno explains that the most common plastic surgery performed
today is known as liposuction-but experiments are underway on something called lipo
dissolve, which actually dissolves the body’s fat. "Lipo dissolve is it relatively
new in this country, it is basically using a technique where you inject a chemical
beneath the skin into the fat that promotes the cells to rupture and your body absorbs
the fat."
Dr. Bruno says that the procedure is still in the testing phase and doctors and
researchers are waiting on more data to compare the pros and cons. "With this material
if you happen to get too deep and you inject onto the muscle, you can actually cause
damage.
The medicine can also remove the fat from the motor nerves which are at
the muscle level and you could short circuit the nerves to the muscle.”
Dr. Bruno also says that so there are some concerns and while liposuction has been the most popular method of removing large amounts of fat from the body why would
someone want to switch to a new method? "Lipo dissolve is a very good alterative
in very small areas or taking care of small problems because the surgery becomes a lot more involved for a small defect."
Dr. Bruno wants to make clear that neither liposuction or lipo dissolve should be used in the place of a healthy diet and exercise plan
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, over half a million patients received liposuction over the past 2 years, which makes this procedure one of the
top 2 cosmetic surgeries.
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