Dr. Nathan Miller is a board certified cosmetic surgeon and owner of the OKC Lipo in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Specializing in all forms of liposuction, Dr. Miller is a member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgeons, American Medical Association, Texas Medical Association, and a prospective member of the American College of Surgeons. In this article, he tells us which liposuction treatments are the most popular for men at his practice.
Believe it or not, it is really becoming more for men to be interested in having a liposuction procedure. In fact, having male patients come in has become really common here at OKC Lipo.
Liposuction is a little different from other cosmetic procedures, which is a little funny. I say that because when a physician does a breast augmentation and changes the size of a woman’s breasts, she can’t really hide that. So it is not uncommon for me to see patients whose friends have gotten a breast augmentation done, and then the friend likes the results so much that she comes in for a consultation as well. She might say, “Oh, Jennifer had this procedure done and see looks so great, so I wanted to come in and get the same thing done to me, too.”
Now liposuction is different, and especially when you are talking about men. The reason is because it’s usually not as outwardly noticeable when you have gotten a liposuction procedure done as it might be with other procedures like a breast augmentation or a nose job. People—and men especially—oftentimes don’t want to tell their coworkers or friends that they have gotten liposuction done. Many tend to think admitting that they have gotten liposuction is some kind of admission of failure or guilt on their part, possibly for not exercising enough or eating the right foods to lose weight on their own. So the topic of liposuction can be kind of hush-hush, even among friends.
Because of the code of silence, if you will, we get few referrals in the liposuction industry. Obviously, patients are happy with their results, but they don’t feel comfortable bragging to friends about their liposuction procedure. It’s kind of funny how that works.
So it important that men hear it elsewhere that liposuction is just as much a possibility for them as it is for women. We can do liposuction pretty much anywhere on a man’s body, but the most popular areas that we see patients coming in for are concentrated around the love handles, over the abdomen, and in the chest area. Many men have what are called “man boobs,” and with liposuction, we can really just basically do a male breast reduction without a lot of pain whatsoever.
Although there are many different liposuction options, I have found that men tend to respond very well to the Vaser LipoSelection technique. What that is, is essentially the ultrasound assisted laser going in there and removing those fat deposits in a really easy way. And for men especially, we have found that the Vaser technology is especially favorable since males tend to have somewhat more fibrotic tissue. So that’s a big thing that a lot of guys are coming in for specifically now—the Vaser LipoSelection.
In just the past couple of years, I have seen an increase in the number of men coming in for all types of liposuction procedures. The way I think of it is, basically, if you have dirty teeth, you get your teeth cleaned. If you have shaggy hair, you get your hair cut. And if you have a little extra fat that you want to get rid of, you can easily come in to an office like OKC Lipo and get that taken care of as well.
So if you really want to jumpstart a new healthy lifestyle, getting a bit of liposuction done is a great way to get started. And like I said, you don’t have to be a woman to get liposuction done. The procedures we do are hugely popular with men, as well.
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