Beverly Hills Liposuction Doctor – Dr. Peter B. Fodor

Beverly Hills liposuction doctor Dr. Peter B. Fodor from Beverly Hills and  expert medical advisory board member of The Plastic Surgery Channel talks about Liposuction and the recent increase in number of revision liposuction patients.

Choosing the Right Liposuction Doctor

Liposuction if often the most popular procedure that plastic surgeons around the world are contacted for. While being the most popular, liposuction is also a procedure that can go wrong just as easily. Many a times the reason for this is that patients do not do their due diligence while selecting a liposuction doctor to perform such a procedure. Often times, doctors performing liposuction are not even plastic surgeons and some have little or no surgical experience. A lot of liposuction doctors and lay people feel that liposuction is just another minor procedure and can be executed by just about anyone.

Patients come into a surgeon’s office for liposuction revision in order to correct a previous procedure, often a previous liposuction. There can be many reasons why the initial procedure was not successful and why the patient feels the need for a revision liposuction. Sometimes the doctor performing the surgery did not do an adequate job during the pre operative diagnostic phase or that the technique during the liposuction was ideal for the patient, or even patients expectations were not addressed pre-operatively.

Patients often have complaints regarding the amount of fat removed during liposuction. While some might complain that too little was removed, others may complain about the fact that the procedure was too aggressive and that it removed too much fat. Sometimes the liposuction doctor may not have paid enough attention to the proportions of the patient’s body during his evaluations and this might result in the results of the surgery being disproportionate and might cause the patient to lose body symmetry. Other adverse effects of liposuction might be rippling of the skin and indentations in the skin.

Revision Liposuction

Dr. Peter Fodor, who is world renowned authority on liposuction, regrets that emerging technology coupled with untrained surgeons have confused patients who are now so blinded by manufacturers promoting new appliances and procedures that they are not aware of the risks involved in any new technology or procedure. He wants patients to be aware that even if someone is a victim of a bad procedure, there is now an option of revising the same and the improvement can be significant enough for the patient to see a drastic positive change.

In Dr. Fodor’s opinion, the number of revision liposuction procedures has only increased in the past few years. In fact almost 50% or more of his liposuction patients come in for liposuction revision. Of course, being a leader in his field, other surgeons often refer to him patients who have had difficulties and bad results with other surgeons. He feels badly for patients who have been subjected to bad techniques and due to minor accuracies have come out of surgery dissatisfied and feels that going to a board certified plastic surgeon is the only way to prevent such disasters.