There are still many people who associate plastic surgery procedures with female patients and find it hard to believe that there will be men requesting cosmetic treatments like liposuction.
The truth is that there is a rise in the number of male patients being treated in recent years.
There are some significant differences between a male and female patient however and these distinctions reflect in the final cost for the surgical fat removal procedure.
This plays to the various factors that determine how much liposuction will cost such as the size of the treatment area and the work required of the surgeon.
Men in general are larger than women in terms of overall body size.
The larger size coupled with the larger amount of fat to be removed are major factors in determining how much the liposuction procedure will cost.
Since the price of liposuction depends largely on the amount of time and effort required of the plastic surgeon performing the procedure, a larger treatment area usually means more work and thus a higher cost.
The fat cells in a male body in general are more fibrous than the fat cells in a female body.
That makes the fat cells harder to liquefy for removal and means it will usually take more time and work to remove the same amount of fat from a male patient than it would from a female patient.
This applies regardless of the technique used to treat the patient.
Usually, the reason men would request liposuction is because there are areas of the body that can be hard to sculpt through exercise and diet.
Male patients will typically limit their requests to the abdomen, back, facial regions and the chest.
Liposuction of the chest is commonly used as a treatment for gynecomastia which is a condition that results in enlarged male breasts.
These areas of the body also tend to have the most fibrous fat cells making them that much more difficult to remove.