How are the areas to be treated decided?
We divide the areas into three distinct types: a. Primary Deposit Sites: These are the first places weight is gained, and the last places lost with diet and exercise. These are sites that diet and exercise cannot seem to provide correction without extreme reduction in body fat percentage. Being genetically determined, these are the most frustrating and difficult problem areas for most patients. Fortunately, these are the most important sites treated with liposuction, particularly since once these storage cells are reduced, no new fat cells are developed to replace them. b. Secondary Deposit Sites: These are sites that have fat cells that can either store fat for future use, or, provide fat breakdown for energy delivery for the body. These sites fill when the Primary Deposit Sites have substantial stores, but are termed metabolically available based on the fact that diet and exercise are usually effective at reduction of these areas. It is the Secondary areas that you can realize good c
