Over the years liposuction has been mainly performed on women; however, that trend has changed somewhat and now liposuction for men had become much more popular than in years past. Many men are not as interested in improving their appearance through surgery and are not as vain as some women are. With the advent of reality TV shows like Nip and Tuck and Dr. 90210 plastic surgery has become more known to the average person and is seen to not be just for the very rich. Shows like The Biggest Loser champion weight loss in short periods of time so that the obese people that lose large amounts of weight end up with excess skin folds that need plastic surgery to appear normal again.
Many guys who decide on liposuction for men are looking to have hard to reduce areas like love handles and “man boobs” reduced and restored. Have you dieted and exercised to the point of exhaustion and still can not see your abdominal muscles? As stated before, liposuction has not been a major procedure that men have sought out. Recently the trend has increased and now men comprise about fifteen percent of all liposuction patients.
Gynecomastia, or man boobs, has been a condition that more plastic surgeons are seeing and as long as the condition is caused by the build up of fatty tissues and not glandular in nature then liposuction for men is indicated. In these cases many times the incisions are so small that there is no scarring and recovery time is really fast. The other areas that men look to plastic surgery to help are the face area – neck, jowls and chin along with the abdominal area – stomach and love handles. The cost for male liposuction is generally a bit higher than for women in the same body area because male fatty tissue is more fibrous and harder to remove.
