Should I be concerned if my tumescent liposuction surgeon is not “board certified in plastic surgery?” Can other specialists perform skillful liposuction?
Please read above and the included article regarding liposuction surgery “Just the Facts, Ma’am” written by a prominent plastic surgeon. Board certification in plastic surgery is a wonderful accomplishment, and the vast majority of plastic surgeons are skillful and accomplished. Nonetheless, it is no guarantee whatsoever that a specific surgeon can skillfully perform a specific surgical technique. In the case of liposuction, about 250,000 operations per year are performed in the United States. Dermatologists and other “non-plastic surgeons” perform roughly 45% of these surgeries (~ 110,000), the majority of which use only local anesthesia. Of those surgeries performed by “board certified plastic surgeons,” many are not “true” tumescent liposuction with local anesthesia, but use systemic anesthesia and larger cannula. Most “non-plastic surgeons” bring significant “strengths” to the performance of tumescent liposuction using local anesthesia. These include, but are not limited to the fol
