Liposuction May Reduce Triglycerides

January 23, 2015 by Dr. Gilad Segev Leave a Comment

Liposuction may do more than just slim down your waistline — it might also help your heart, a medical study suggests.

Within three months of the liposuction surgery, patients’ triglyceride levels had dropped an average of 43 percent, according to a report presented at an annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in Denver.

Triglycerides, fats in the blood, have been linked in other studies to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

The new findings were a surprise even to the study’s author, Dr. Eric Swanson, a cosmetic surgeon in practice in Leawood, Kansas.

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Facts About Laser Lipo and Liposuction Cost

January 7, 2015 by Dr. Gilad Segev 3 Comments

Go For a Safe, Affordable, and Reliable Option of Laser Liposuction

What is Laser Liposuction?

Laser liposuction is a subset of tumescent liposuction.

The latter is a technique that provides local anesthesia to large volumes of subcutaneous fat under the skin and thus permits liposuction. By using lidocaine locally, this kind of procedure eliminates the administration of general anesthesia during surgery. American Lipo Centers does internal laser liposuction (opposed to external laser liposuction) where fat is actually sucked out instead of just administrating the laser on the outside of the skin.

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Liposuction ranks as Most Popular Plastic Surgery

November 15, 2014 by Dr. Gilad Segev Leave a Comment

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) recently polled the plastic surgeons in their society and found a 12% overall increase in cosmetic procedures performed in the United States in 2013. More than 11 million cosmetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures were performed by board-certified plastic surgeons, dermatologists and otolaryngologists in the United States, totaling more than 12 billion dollars for the first time since the Great Recession began in 2008. Of that total, more than 7 billion was spent on surgical procedures and more than 5 billion was spent on nonsurgical procedures.

This year, liposuction replaced breast augmentation as the most frequently performed surgical procedure with a 16% increase and more than one billion was spent on the procedure nationwide.

The top five surgical procedures were:

Liposuction (363,912 procedures, up 16.3%)
Breast augmentation (313,327 procedures, down 5.2%)
Eyelid surgery (161,389 procedures, up 5.4%)
Tummy tuck (160,077 procedures, up 2.3%)
Nose surgery (147,966 procedures, up 2.9%)

This can be attributed to technological advances including lasers used to assist in laser liposuction making the procedures less invasive with a shorter down time and lower risk.

Buttock augmentation and labiaplasty which have not previously been as known to the public mainstream showed large increase in the number of interested patients and the amount of procedures done over the course of a twelve month period – with buttock augmentation in the lead with a 58% increase and labiaplasty coming in second with a 44% increase compared to the previous year.

Women had the vast majority of plastic surgery procedures with more than 10.3 million plastic surgery procedures accounting for 91% of the total. The number of cosmetic procedures for women increased over 471% from 1997. The top five surgical procedures for women were: breast augmentation, liposuction, tummy tuck, breast lift and eyelid surgery.

Men had more than one million cosmetic surgery procedures, 9% of the total. The number of cosmetic procedures for men increased over 273% from the last two decades. The top five surgical procedures for men were: liposuction, eyelid surgery, nose surgery, male breast reduction and ear surgery.

Laser liposuction accounts for a significant portion of liposuction cases as it offers patients a less invasive way to do liposuction with less downtime and less risk. American Lipo Centers is a national center that offers laser liposuction in Atlanta GA, Northern VA, Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia Beach, Dallas TX, San Antonio TX, Greenwich CT, and New York City.

VIsit www.americanlipocenters.com

to find out more about the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure in the country: liposuction

Laser Liposuction Advantages vs Traditional Liposuction

November 10, 2014 by Dr. Gilad Segev Leave a Comment

5 Advantages of Laser Liposuction

Laser liposuction in the Washington DC suburb of Alexandria Virginia in Northern Virginia at American Lipo Centers is a procedure that both men and women can benefit from. There are many ways in which a person can improve their body from this procedure and we discuss some of the advantages of laser liposuction vs traditional liposuction.

1) Laser Liposuction will help remove trouble spots that are often not possible to remove with dieting and exercise
2) Laser Liposuction uses smaller cannulas and is therefore is less damaging to the tissue and skin.
3) There is less downtime and patients often can return to work within 2 days.
4) Laser liposuction can tighten skin.
. 5) There is less chance for complications to arise with laser liposuction compared to traditional liposuction done under general anesthesia

For more information about laser liposuction, please visit

www.americanlipocenters.com

American Lipo Centers has locations in the Washington DC area, Northern Virginia in Alexandria Virginia, Virginia Beach, Bowie Maryland, baltimore Maryland, Dallas Texas, San Antonio Texas, Atlanta Georgia, Greenwich Connecticut and New York City, New York

American Lipo Centers has done over 2,500 laser liposuction surgeries

November 3, 2014 by Dr. Gilad Segev Leave a Comment

American Lipo Centers is a leading national provider of laser liposuction in Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Virginia Beach, Northern Virginia, Bowie Maryland, Baltimore Maryland, Waldorf Maryland, Chicago Illinois, Los Angeles California, Las Vegas Nevada and Manila Philippines.

We are proud to announce that our talented surgeons have performed over 2,500 laser liposuction surgeries. Our location in Northern Virginia that serves Virginia, Maryland, and the Washington DC area has performed the most laser liposuction surgery and our doctor Dr. Gilad Segev continues to do hundreds of surgeries every year.

We credit our success to our fantastic staff that does a great job in educating our patients and to our great doctors who take the time to care for each patient as if they were a family member. With patient satisfaction at a high level, American Lipo Centers receives a lot of kind referrals from our patients.
Thank you to our staff, our doctors, and most of all to our patients who have made this possible. We look forward to many more years of providing high quality laser liposuction to our patients in many new locations.

For more information about laser liposuction at American Lipo Centers, please visit

Americanlipocenters.com

or visit us at one of our locations in Dallas, Atlanta, Alexandria Virginia, Virginia Beach, Bowie Maryland, Chicago IL, Los Angeles CA, Las Vegas NV, Waldorf MD and Manila Philippines.