This decreases the ability of the body to absorb calories. So theoretically it allows people to eat as much as they want. Unfortunately, complications often occur, and in many cases the operation has to be reversed. Lipectomy is basically a cosmetic operation. This procedure uses a powerful vacuum to draw fat from the hips, abdomen, buttocks, and thighs and sometimes the knees, ankles, chin and arms.
Lipectomy removes fat bulges, such as the orange peel-like fat bumps on the back of the thigh.
It cannot be applied to your total body to make you thin. And there are risks including infection, muscle or nerve damage, blood clots, stomach ulcers, internal bleeding and so on. Also, as you might guess, these procedures are all expensive. But a deserving cut, one I must share with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the supplier of most of my information. Dr. Macgregor is with the Gainesville Surgical Group, which in the past 15 years has performed 2500 surgical procedures for obesity.