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Some Women Turning To Full-Body Liposuction For Sculpted Look
Doctor Performs Liposuction In Body Regions Instead Of Targeting Fat Areas

POSTED: 5:54 pm EST February 23, 2004

BALTIMORE -- Some doctors are using liposuction to create a smaller, smoother, sculpted look instead of only targeting fat in certain spots. They call it full-body liposuction.

In 1989, Donna Hess had stomach liposuction, but 15 years later…

"When menopause set in, I skyrocketed from a [size] four to a 12 in less than a year," Hess said.

And at 56 years old, diet and exercise weren't working.

"After you've tried a variety of different techniques to sculpt yourself, you look at other options," Hess said.

So this time, she did something more dramatic -- full-body liposuction. It's a procedure to sculpt the entire midsection.

Baltimore surgeon Dr. Dean Kane explained the procedure to WBAL-TV 11 Health Alert reporter Donna Hamilton.

"What I do is sculpt [is] from the side of the breast in order to create a hollow [area], defining the breast, creating a waist, going down into the lateral hip and creating that hourglass shape," Kane said.

Then, with a wand-like instrument called a Candula, Kane began to suck the fat away. Kane performed Hess' stomach liposuction in 1989, as well as her recent full-body liposuction. But his philosophy now is quite different.

"I realized that it wasn't what you took away that was important in liposuction, but what you left behind," Kane said.

And after her surgery, Hess did realize what she had left behind after the procedure.

"I just look like I had sculpted my body to a form as opposed to just doing spots," Hess said.

"[Kane] did the front and the back and the sides. … My goal was to be a [size] four and that's what I am!" Hess said.

Recovery is one to two weeks and some people can return to work within a week. And because of the anesthesia and the amount of fat and tissue removed, Kane said the full-body procedure should always be done in the safety of a hospital, not in an office setting.

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