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This woman in her early 30s first visited Dr Arthur Tjandra of Elixir de Vie 2 years ago to get arms and double chin/neck liposuction done. After seeing the result, she got hooked, and has been returning every few months to eventually get liposuction done on her whole body. She also had 1 session of autologous fat grafting breasts augmentation during her second visit, 2 months after her first visit. The videos below show the result of her autologous fat grafting breasts augmentation 1.5 years later, which shows that almost 100% of the injected fat survives, 1.5 years months later!
Below are the links to all the previous posts we have published on this patient:
First visit:
Patient No. 470, Session 1: Gigantic arms liposuction: A Masterpiece!
Patient No. 470, Session 1: Neck/double chin liposuction: A Masterpiece!
Second visit:
Patient No. 470: Result of gigantic arms liposuction, 2 months later: A Masterpiece!
Patient No. 470: Result of neck/double chin liposuction, 2 months later: A Masterpiece!
Patient No. 470, Session 2: Abdominal liposuction and autologous fat grafting breasts augmentation
Third visit:
Patient No. 470: Result of gigantic arms liposuction, 5 months later
Patient No. 470: Result of abdominal liposuction, 3 months later
Patient No. 470: Result of autologous fat grafting breasts augmentation, 3 months later
Patient No. 470: Result of jowls and neck/double chin liposuction, 5 months later
Patient No. 470, Session 3: Inner thighs liposuction
Fourth visit:
Patient No. 470, Session 4: Gigantic outer thighs liposuction
Fifth visit:
Patient No. 470: Result of autologous fat grafting breasts augmentation, 1.5 years later
Patient No. 470, Session 5: Calves and ankles liposuction with touch-up on flanks
Sixth visit:
Patient No. 470: Result of double chin/neck liposuction, 1 year 10 months later: A Masterpiece!
Patient No. 470: Result of abdominal liposuction, 1 year 8 months later
Patient No. 470: Unsatisfactory result of thunder thighs liposuction
Patient No. 470, Session 6: Touch-up inner thighs, lower buttocks and back of thighs liposuction
She now returns to Dr Arthur Tjandra of Elixir de Vie to get the final session of her whole body liposuction/transformation series, which is liposuction of her outer half of thighs (hips, lower buttocks/saddle bags, outer thighs and back of thighs). During the 3rd session, although the title is “Inner thighs liposuction”, her frontal thighs, as well as knees were lipo-ed, along with her inner thighs. This is the concept of 3-dimensional liposuction, without which, the result would not be good and appear lop-sided, or worse still, appear like being bitten off by wild animals!
This patient has blogged about her experience: My Liposuction Journal.
Video 34: Pre-operative marking of outer thighs.
Video 35: Awake syringe liposuction under local anesthesia by Dr Arthur Tjandra.
Video 36: Result of left outer thigh liposuction.
Video 37: Completion of outer thighs liposuction.
Video 38: Result of thighs liposuction, after removal of 4 liters of fat…………but with a lot of loose skin.
Take home lesson: for patients with gigantic thighs who would like to split the thighs liposuction into 2 separate sessions, it is better to get 3D liposuction of the entire thighs done over 2 sessions, rather than getting half thighs done each session over 2 sessions. Although the total amount of fat aspirated over those 2 sessions may be the same, a sudden large volume liposuction from one particular area may leave behind a lot of loose skin, and there is high chance that the skin may not be able to retract back. In this particular case, 2 liters of fat was aspirated out from the patient’s inner half of thighs during the previous session of liposuction, followed by another 2 liters of fat from her outer half of thighs during this session. Because of the sudden loss of volume, she is left excess dangling wrinkling skin. If she had opted to get only 1 liter out from her inner thighs during the previous session, followed by another 1 liter during this session 5 months later, there is more time for the skin to react and retract back, compared to a sudden loss of volume of 2 liters.
For more Liposuction Case Studies, please visit our website: http://elixirdevie.sg/liposuctioncasestudies.html
More liposuction before and after surgery photos can be see here: http://elixirdevie.sg/liposuction%20before%20and%20after.html
Combination of liposuction and autologous fat grafting to breasts or/and buttocks can be seen here: http://elixirdevie.sg/autologousfattransferforbreastaugmentation.html
A list of our patients’ blogs: http://www.elixirdevie.sg/blog.html
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