Is there a minimum weight for liposuction “candidates?
The “short answer” is yes, at least at Trillium. With exceptions, patients who weigh more than 10 pounds below their “ideal body weight” should be cautiously evaluated for liposuction. There is a very popular current trend to maintain a body weight far below the “ideal,” as exemplified by so many horrendously thin film and television stars. This has very dangerous physical and psychological implications, which are disturbing. When the fat cells are “maximally shrunken” by excess weight loss and compulsive exercise, they are much more difficult to accurately remove, and the liposuction could “overtreat” by removing too many cells, which is a much worse complication than not removing enough fat. The normal “female form and shape” depends upon fat deposits beneath the skin. This is why so many women experience a significant loss in breast size (and an increase in facial wrinkles) after excessive dieting. If too much is removed, the results can be disfiguring. In fact, a certain amount of
