Liposuction is one of the most popular surgeries. It also has many myths and misconceptions surrounding it. Let’s address the most common ones.

1. Liposuction And Tummy Tuck Are The Same Things

Not true at all. While both procedures often target the area of the abdomen, seeking to make it flatter and more defined, they diverge in much. Liposuction will vacuum fat cells located in the area chosen for it, but it will not get rid of any stretched skin remaining there. The tummy tuck, however, will. A tummy tuck tightens the abdominal muscles through an incision and, before that, excises the excessive in the area. 

2. Men Don’t Do It

Liposuction is hugely popular, and although women are the gender that requests it the most, men are not that far behind. The procedure is popular among men, the areas they seek, however, tend to be different from those of women. While women mostly centre around getting liposuction on the thighs, abdomen, and arms. Most men request the abdomen and the chin as their preferred areas for extracting fat. 

3. You’ll Lose Weight

Plainly put: yes, but very little of it. Liposuction will vacuum much fat out of your body, but the resulting weight loss is relatively small. This is because fat itself is not dense at all, a bag of it can weigh very little in fact. The overall contour, including size, of the body, changes, but your weight is little affected.

4. The Fat Will Never Come Back

Wrong. Liposuction will subtract the majority of the fat cells present in the operated area, not all of them, but most. These fat cells are not replaced since the body does not produce more of them after puberty. But by gaining weight notably after, the remaining fat cells can grow again. 

5. No Need for More Exercise or Diets

Again, you can still gain weight after liposuction if you don’t watch what you eat closely. Limit portion sizes and sticks to a healthy diet with exercise, and your results will be long-lasting.

6. It Cures Cellulitis

No, it does not. Cellulitis is a problem of fibres pulling the skin which causes the ‘dimples’ on its surface. Liposuction cannot prevent said pulling in any way.

7. Gets Rid of Stretch Marks

Neither. A stretch mark is basically a scar, and in no way removing fat will make it fade away.

8. Older People Cannot Have it

Yes, they can, but it depends on the state of their skin. Loose skin can complicate the healing process, even prevent it entirely, and aged skin has less elasticity.

9. Leaves Loose, Hanging Skin

It all depends on how high your body mass index is before the surgery. If you happen to be obese, the removal of fat will leave hanging skin where the fat used to be. Liposuction does not remove the excess of skin.

10. Results Are Instantaneous

While you can observe a new body shape right after the surgery, full results appear six weeks after with a successful recovery.