Male Patients and Liposuction Costs

For the longest time cosmetic surgery procedures have been associated with female patients. However, recent trends indicate that body contouring procedures like liposuction are becoming increasingly popular among men as well as women. This might be hard for some traditional minded people to accept but that isn’t stopping the male demographic from visiting clinics and requesting treatment. There are some differences between men and women and that difference is reflected quite apparently in the cost of liposuction surgery.

There are basically three explanations for why the overall liposuction costs are generally higher for a male patient than for a female patient. It has to do with both the disparity in biological makeup of the two genders. Keep in mind that this is speaking in board terms and individuals will obviously have to be analyzed on a case by case basis.

The first reason is the general size difference. Men in general are typically larger than women and with a larger area come larger amounts of fat. This means more work and time involved for a comparable treatment which leads to higher cost for the plastic surgeons time and effort. Another reason is where most male patients are requesting treatment. Unlike women who, as a group, will request liposuction surgery on just about any part of the body, men typically do not request arm or calf liposuction where it is easy to build muscle. Most men will request liposuction in areas such as the chest, abdomen or back.

These areas are larger and also contain the tougher, more fibrous fat cells which are harder to break and remove from the body. To top things off, the fat cells in men in general are more fibrous than women to begin with so it is harder to remove fat cells from male patients than females. Most men use liposuction surgery differently from women because they have the capacity to build muscle in areas like the arms and legs so there is no real need to rely on liposculpture to shape those areas.