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DR. HOLZMAN: Patients frequently ask me about the safety of liposuction. And I can tell you that liposuction is safe in the hands of a conservative surgeon. We do low volume liposuction here at our practice. This consists of doing less than 5,000 grams of aspirate. Although this amounts to about 10 or 11 pounds weight change, in general liposuction is not considered a weight changing operation. We do not do large volume operation. And that’s the procedure where patients have 15 and 20 or more pounds of fat removed. This involves blood loss requiring IV fluid, hospitalization risk. And we are conservative, safe surgeons and we do not do this.