Study Performed in Southern California Finds Liposuction and Tummy Tuck Procedures Can Be Safely Combined
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 1, 2007 -

Dr. Grant Stevens and colleagues study over 400 Los Angeles patients after tummy tuck-liposuction surgeries and demonstrate that the popular procedures are safe in combination.
– Cosmetic surgery is becoming more mainstream with each passing year. More people are having it and more people are talking about it. The topic has become wildly popular with the media, with entire television programs focused on plastic surgery “makeovers.”
One frequent point of debate is the safety of combined plastic surgery procedures, such as tummy tucks with liposuction. In the Los Angeles area and around the country, there’s increased demand for multiple procedures in one trip to the operating room as patients seek to minimize costs and downtime related to surgery. But questions have arisen as to the safety of these combination procedures. In fact, one state issued a ban on tummy tuck/liposuction combinations in recent years, believing the simultaneous procedures to be inherently dangerous.
Dr. Grant Stevens, Medical Director of Marina Plastic Surgery Associates, felt that more data was needed to correctly assess the risks of simultaneous cosmetic surgery procedures. He and four colleagues conducted a clinical study of 406 abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) surgeries by Dr. Stevens over a 15-year period of time. Of that group, 57 patients did not have simultaneous liposuction. The remaining patients did have liposuction combined with their abdominoplasty. The results of the study were clear: there is no additional risk for patients combining liposuction with a tummy tuck procedure.   More…..
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