Liposuction
Before & After Photos

No matter what style pants she tried to wear, this patient always had to go up a couple sizes in the waist in order for her thighs to fit. After liposuction, her thighs are more normal and she is now able to wear any style of pant she wants. Although a tummy tuck tightens the skin on the belly, it doesn’t reduce the thickness of the tissues above the belly button. It is my job as a plastic surgeon to assess your tissues, asses your desires and goals, and then explain your options to you.

“Dr. Gurley – I cannot thank you enough for your care and gift as a surgeon. You have helped bring my self-confidence back. I’m a much happier person! I was never in pain and my recovery went smoothly. Thank you!”

Liposuction offers tremendous results for patients who don’t want the downtime of a tummy tuck. Lipo can even prepare a patient for a tummy tuck.

Very precise and delicate fat removal is possible with liposuction. Dr. Gurley can give you a very good idea of what to expect, the limitations, and the risks if you are considering liposuction.

This patient was disappointed with her armpit fat. Dr. Gurley used as a specialized version of liposuction where fat is gently removed which gave the area a smoother appearance while also eliminating the unwanted fat pockets.

Hip fat is a nuisance for women and men. Liposuction will target this precise area to improve the body’s shape and to get rid of this specific problem area. Experience and equipment are paramount in order to precisely guide and measure fat removal. No other technique can smoothly and aggressively remove fat from exactly where you want it removed.

When fat is taken from between the skin and the muscle, the skin retracts back inward and doesn’t hang or get very lose. Before lipo, the skin is stretched over the fatty area, but it will usually recoil nicely. This patient is an excellent candidate for liposuction because she has just a few stretch marks and her skin has retained good elasticity. You’ll see some shadows and some uneven areas. This is a side effect of size reducing lipo where the main goal is to lose inches and to be noticeably smaller in clothes. If the goal of liposuction is to be able to wear a bikini with minimal imperfections, lipo must be performed differently with other goals in mind.

Insulin-dependent diabetics hold onto fat in certain areas. Under the care of a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and a Board Certified Anesthesiologist, your body can be safely trimmed down. The accumulated fat that can go hand in hand with insulin injections can be removed.

“Extremely thrilled I made the choice to have lipo! Love seeing my former, younger body! I feel and look great!”

Our genetics are very powerful. They decide the shape and length of our bones, the color or our eyes and the number of fat cells we harbor in certain anatomical areas. Diet and exercise can shrink fat cells cut they cannot remove fat cells. Typically, when you lose weight your fat cells get smaller and typically when you gain weight the fat cells basically get bigger. So, you keep your proportions regardless of your weight. Removing fat with liposuction alters your genetic predisposition to having “problem” areas and permanently makes the treated area proportionately smaller. This young lady is not overweight. But, ever since she was a young girl, she had two large swellings on her hips. So, without the need for exercise weight loss, liposuction effectively changed her shape.

Want to smooth away fat from the tummy and hips all in one procedure? Liposuction is so powerful you only need one treatment. One and done!

Through tiny little openings in the skin, a small tube (cannula) is inserted into the fat and it is suctioned out. Because the fat cells live in small clusters separated by their tissue, Dr. Gurley will often dissolve this tissue before sucking out the fat to help keep the area smooth. The goal of liposuction is to remove fat in areas where there is too much and leave it in areas where it is needed.

This patient was holding on to fat in her midsection. No diet or exercise allowed her to lose weight in this area. We were able to reduce this patient’s circumference by 7 INCHES! When fat is taken out between the skin and the muscle, the skin retracts back inward and does not hang or get very lose. This patient is a good example of good skin retraction after liposuction.

This patient just wants to remove as much bulk as possible and does not care about having tight skin afterward. Her problem areas were reduced by traditional liposuction. Her tissues were treated with a solution that allows the equipment (ultrasound) to work well and to help minimize bruising. Ultrasound was used to break up the fibers and power-assisted (vibrating) liposuction was used to get the final result.

Liposuction can be as minimal or as aggressive as you and your doctor decide. In other words, multiple body areas can be treated all at once, and all of the unwanted fat can be removed in a single setting. The extent of lipo determines the cost because of time. But the downtime is just days – not weeks or months. Here is an example of a patient who had a few minor problem areas that were treated very delicately with liposuction.

In a safe and sterile setting, a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon can painlessly and quickly give you the body you want. This young lady wants to wear a bikini with more confidence. So through a few small openings, a very small cannula very conservatively removed fat from the problem areas she and I defined together. It is my job to explain realistic results so that she can be sure that we are on the same page and that the outcome is worth the risks. We were able to change her figure by removing fat from the belly, hips, and thighs painlessly and quickly and all in ONE procedure. One and done! No multiple treatments.