Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery Blog – Harley Medical Group

Liposuction has been voted as the surgical procedure of the year in the 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards from online magazine American Health and Beauty.

In spite of the huge rise in popularity of non-surgical procedures such as Botox and laser hair removal, surgical procedures are still able to produce the most dramatic results and liposuction seems to have had the most transformative results.

Rising obesity levels in the US have been cited as one of the reasons why liposuction has gained so much popularity in recent years, even though the procedure is not designed to be used as a weight loss tool. Instead, liposuction surgery is used to remove stubborn pockets of fat in order to sculpt the body into the desired and well-proportioned shape.

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Soldiers in the US Armed Forces are turning to liposuction, and other forms of fat removal surgery, in order to meet strict size and weight regulations, put in place to ensure that standards remain high.

According to a recent report published in the Washington Post, more and more military personnel are combining their strict diets and exercise regimes with cosmetic surgery, in order to pass all areas of PT (Physical Training).

Heather Sommerdyke, a technical sergeant in the US Air Force, has already spent $12,000 on liposuction surgery, in an attempt to drop her waist measurement from 37 inches, to the maximum acceptable measurement of 35.5 inches that has been set for female airmen.

Sommerdyke can fulfil all other areas of the Air Force PT requirements, such as the press-ups, push-ups, and gruelling runs, but giving birth to her second child two years ago has made it almost impossible for her to trim down her waist measurements enough through exercise and diet alone.