According to statistics, almost 15% of the persons to choose liposuction as a means of losing the fat from their body are men. Male liposuction has met an incredible boost in the last decade, especially with the onset of the so-called metrosexuals, the men who spend a considerable amount of time taking care of their looks.
The Liposuction for Gynecomastia There are several types of male liposuction and the most popular of them is the liposuction for gynecomastia, a cosmetic plastic surgery that deals with the reduction of male breast. Gynecomastia is a medical condition that is very frequent among men and the removal of these male breasts can be done only surgically. The difference between female breasts and male breasts is that the latter ones have accumulated fat, not fibers, as in the case of the women’s breasts.
Love Handles? One of the areas that many men wish to “treat” through liposuction is the area of the love handles - that is the area just below the waist where fat has accumulated. The excess of fat from this area cannot normally be removed through diet and exercise, or it is a genetic inheritance. Intense exercise and diet help only in building muscles underneath the fat thus not helping to actually remove the fatty tissue. Fortunately enough, love handles can be removed with liposuction with great success because the results in male liposuction are very evident and long lasting, if the patient makes sure that he doesn’t gain any considerable weight.
Liposuction for the Abdominal Area Many male liposuction procedures are dealing with the removal of fat deposits in the lower abdominal area where the fat cannot be removed through diet and exercise. This is the area that is called beer belly or spare tire. This accumulation of fat usually has a genetic nature thus making useless any diet. The majority of men who choose male liposuction in the abdominal area have previously tried out all the diets and types of exercises without taking into consideration the fact that the fat deposited in this area might have a genetic nature.
The new liposuction procedures make male liposuction an easy medical intervention among the cosmetic plastic surgery techniques. The tumescent techniques used for male liposuction use only local anesthesia thus removing the possible negative effects of the general anesthesia. The new liposuction procedures in male liposuction make the recovery very easy to handle. In fact, recovery is so rapid that the male patients can walk out the doctor’s office and go back to work within three days.
How Much Does Male Liposuction Cost? The cost of liposuction is fairly high (around $7000), but the cost of male liposuction is higher than that for women. Why so? There are a number of reasons for that. First of all, there are more fibers in the male fat which makes the medical intervention more difficult and thus more time demanding during their removal. Second of all, the areas that the male patients ask to be operated are far more fibrous than any other area in the body (the area of the chest, the love handles area, the abdominal zone). And, finally, the posture of men is bigger than that of women which means that males have more fat to remove. And since the number of men who are choosing liposuction is in continuous growth, the medical industry in the field is flourishing.
