Has anyone heard of this procedure?

[tmarie 0]

Tumescent, Recovery, Results, Scar, Best Beverly Hills Doctor

Seems to be a good alternative to surgery. (traditional tummy tuck)

I wrote them and ask if they can do banded people.

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks

[faithmd 14]

I cannot imagine that this would be an alternative to a Tummy Tuck. The tummy tuck is for loose skin, Lipo takes away fat. If you don't have any loose skin and all you have is fat, then sure, this may work well.

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

A friend of mine does that procedure and he swears it works even with previously obese people. But... he's a really crummy doctor, too. I don't see how it can work but he says it does. Take it with a HUGE grain of salt.

The sales pitch is that a Tummy Tuck carries a 5% mortality rate. Quite frankly, that's a load. While a TT does carry more risk than banding, it's not a 5% mortality rate but that's how they sell the new procedure. My thinking is if they have to lie then that means they can't depend on truth.

[Chickie 15]

A 5% mortality rate for a TT? I was told that it was somewhere between 1 and 2%. The same as any surgery where you have to be put under a general.

The procedure looks to me, anyway, like massive Lipo under twilight sedation. Lipo will do nothing to address stretched skin. And stretched skin is usually more of an issue than fat for people who are formerly morbidly obese.

[Jachut 487]

Lipo would even exacerbate streched skin!

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

A 5% mortality rate for a TT? I was told that it was somewhere between 1 and 2%. The same as any surgery where you have to be put under a general.

The procedure looks to me, anyway, like massive Lipo under twilight sedation. Lipo will do nothing to address stretched skin. And stretched skin is usually more of an issue than fat for people who are formerly morbidly obese.

It probably is a LOT closer to 1-2% vs. 5%.

When the manufacturer of the drug used during this procedure gives seminars they tell docs to explain that the mortality for TTs is 5%. It's a sales pitch and quite effective too.

The way Rick explains it all excess fat is suctioned out and there are injections of some (unknown) drug given... I don't know, every few inches all the way around the excess remaining skin. Then a tight garment is worn and supposedly ALLLLLL this skin is supposed to grow back to the abdominal wall.

I kept asking him how this is possible, I mean... there is more skin than there is abdominal wall. He kept saying that it works, there are no wrinkles, nothing.

Personally I don't see how it is possible but I'm no plastic surgeon either.

I should ask to see a procedure someday or at least before and after photos.