Lipo LAD costs up to 100 thousand and builds six-pack abs on the operating table

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There are many fashion names: lipo LAD (high definition liposuction), lipo HD (high definition or high definition, in Portuguese), lipo 3D and lipo 4k. Plastic surgery, however, is the same and has a very specific audience: athletes and thin people who seek to highlight their abdominal muscles.

A fever among influencers such as influencer GKay and model Lucas Guimarães, the definition liposuction technique has conquered those who work out, work out, but do not organically reach the long-awaited six-pack.

Specialists say that the surgery offers the same safety as conventional liposuction and, like all plastic surgery, it has risks. It is only indicated for people with normal weight, without comorbidities and should only be performed by specialized professionals.

Liposuction is the second most performed plastic surgery in the world (15% of records against 15.8% for silicone implants) and the most performed in Brazil, with 1.5 million such interventions performed per year, according to the SBCP (Sociedade Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery).

According to data from a study carried out by Unifesp (Federal University of São Paulo) published by the journal Surgical & Cosmetic Dermatology, mortality in liposuction varies from 2.6 to 19 deaths per 100,000 operations. The data were obtained through questionnaires sent to medical societies and institutes of forensic medicine, but the researchers believe that this information is still poorly stated.

For Osvaldo Saldanha Filho, chief plastic surgeon and member of the SBCP, despite the dynamics of the market being heated, ethics must prevail.

“Lipo HD is as safe as traditional lipo. But it is important that the patient knows how to choose a professional who has this qualification to practice the technique. Medicine cannot be negotiable. It is important that the patient is the beneficiary”, points out the surgeon .

The cost of the procedure ranges from R$15 to R$100,000 in Brazil, depending on the region and hospital, but most costs an average of R$30 to R$60,000.

In the immediate postoperative period, the patient is obliged to use a drain for about three days and stay at home, but there is no restriction of movement. The result starts to appear between 15 and 30 days, but is fully visible only after six months.

LAD lipo specialist Wilian Pires, 37, recalls that the procedure is not indicated for weight loss, only to remove excess fat, since the aspiration is done at muscle intersections, following the body’s anatomy.

It indicates for people with BMI (body mass index) up to 25.

“The lower the BMI, the better the long-term result. Ideally, the patient should be a person who leads a healthy life, who already does physical activity and eats well. This will have a better result”, says Pires.

Interior designer Mônica Lopes, 25, underwent LAD lipo in January last year and is now enjoying the results.

“I’ve always been thin, but I had accumulated the famous localized fat that bothered me a lot. And the result was incredible. It was super natural, there’s no one who looks and says: ‘it’s lipo’. I think this is a very important point”, she says. the patient.

She says that she kept the drainage in her routine, because in addition to improving the body’s adaptation to lipo, it also improved the appearance of the skin in the region of the procedure.

Lopes was already training and after the surgery intensified going to the gym. “I see a lot of people with the thought that they will have the surgery and will have the perfect belly forever, it’s not like that. The surgery has to come along with a change in habits, otherwise you will lose the result.”

The first postoperative days were the worst part, in the designer’s opinion. “It’s very annoying. Pain, swelling, anxiety, because you want to see the result as soon as possible. But all the frustration passes in days and when you start to see the result, you think: it was worth it”, he says.

Plastic surgeon Oswaldo Saldanha recalls that the high definition technology in liposuction was developed for men. “Few women do the high definition. Most of us do a medium definition or a small definition,” he says.

HD lipo is an advanced variation of traditional techniques developed since 2000 in Brazil, and which gained this new function in 2016.

“Liposuction [convencional] it was done uniformly and practically erased the patient’s muscular anatomy, it was a fake thing. Definition lipo or HD does the opposite. We perform selective liposuction, which highlights and will highlight the patient’s own anatomy”, says Saldanha.

For this reason, the results of the procedure are different depending on who does it.

“I say that HD lipo is an evolution because it follows the human anatomy. Does the surgeon invent the muscles, those little gummies? No. We just ‘lip’ the intermuscular intersections to define these muscles”, agrees Wilian Pires.

For him, who took extra courses in Mexico and Colombia to perform the procedure, the patient should only undergo HD surgery if it is something that really bothers him and not because of a fad.

“No procedure is risk-free. HD lipo is quite safe because the technique, equipment, anesthesia, and knowledge have evolved, but HD is not learned in residency, you need to be a specialist surgeon,” says Pires.

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