Cosmetic surgery such as liposuction removes fat from various areas of the human body. As in most surgical procedures, there are risks, which your doctor will advise you of.

Abdomen surgery is one of the most frequent procedures. Abdominal liposuction removes abdominal fat. The national average cost is $4,250.

Body contouring is another cosmetic surgery performed. This is most often used for a patient after significant weight loss. The cost of this procedure is $6,250.

Facial liposuction fixes lumpy necks, double chins, and chubby cheeks. This removes small amounts of fat compared to other procedures. Most often, facial liposuction works in conjunction with face lifts. This cost is $5,250.

Neck liposuction results in a firmer neck. It can also give your face a youthful look. This is a minimally invasive procedure. This procedure runs $5,250.

A popular cosmetic procedure to shape and slim the upper legs is thigh liposculpture. This method uses ultrasound to break up the fat into small sections. The cost for this is $4,250.

There are differences in the types of liposuction, which may result in a difference in pricing also.

There is wet liposuction. This procedure injects a fluid injected into the area to help loosen the fat cells. This also reduces the bruising.

Super-wet liposuction is the preferred technique for high-volume procedures.

Tumescent type liposuction is where a large amount of fluid is then injected. This creates space between the fatty tissue and muscle and makes more room for the suction tube that is used.

External ultrasound-assisted liposuction is where the ultrasonic energy is applied through the skin from outside the body.

It is important to remember that the liposuction prices are averages and you will need to contact a doctor in your area. Prices may differ according to your specific body type needs and the surgeon.

Here’s two great points about traveling to save money on the cost of liposuction.

1. You Could Potentially See Some Really Cool Places.
Cosmetic surgery tourism companies know that people love the idea of saving money by traveling for their surgery AND also going somewhere neat. This means your trip could be a vacation in and of itself, location wise. For instance, popular destinations for cosmetic surgery such as cheap liposuction include the Czech Republic, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, and Malaysia, no name just a few. As you can see, the potential for checking out a cool place is great.

2. You Could Potentially Save a Ton of Money.
Cosmetic surgery is expensive. Take a look at the liposuction prices list we have documented here on our lipo cost guideto see what we mean. Can you find liposuction doctors abroad who will do the same services for less? Yep – you sure can. This means you can absolutely save money doing the whole ‘medical tourism’ deal for cheap liposuction surgery.

For people going all out – and many do – getting multiple liposuction treatments, and other complimentary invasive, non-invasive plastic or cosmetic treatments too – in the same trip can mean a very large sum of money was saved against the cost of the same services in their home country. (Note that there are health and safety concerns to consider when seeking multiple treatments at once or in a short span of time. In the simplest of terms, the more surgery, the more risk, not to mention that it means a more intense post-surgery recovery period.)

And now that not so great factors to consider:

3. Concerns About Recovering.
The recovery period after liposuction warrants that patient relax, not be on their feet, and basically “take it easy”. This means most of all not to be stressed out, not to do any heavy lifting, or lots of walking or intense exercise. If you’re able to stay abroad for a week or longer, you can relax in the city you’re in quite easily, assuming you’ve taken care of your needs (food, etc) or have someone to help you. But if you’ve got to catch a flight – or two, or three – or miss a flight and stay overnight in a hotel, etc – that type of situation is not conducive to letting the body relax and heal itself.

4. It’s Much Harder to Research the Doctors Abroad.
When using the services of someone in your town, you can consult with them, their staff, and their customers, some of whom you might know and can tell you their personal experience in getting liposuction at the hands of the resident cosmetic surgeon. Trying to do the same for a clinic in half way across the world in Thailand or Prague is going to be a challenge. In other words, it’s much harder to get a feel for the clinic, the doctor, and to know about the reputation of their services before you are already committed to traveling to another country and spending a big chunk of change on those lipo services.

5. Can You Really Combine Surgery and Tourism?
Consider if you really want to combine a vacation style trip with liposuction. The truth is that you might not be physically up for doing any sight seeing and many of the other normal activities done on a vacation. If you’re getting work done on the face, there could be incisions, bruises, and swelling on your face too, making it harder to be “out and about.”

Take a good look at these 5 points when it comes to finding cheap liposuction prices abroad and what it means to travel abroad and use those services. For some, it’s the deal of the century, for others, it’s just not a good idea to mix “business with pleasure”, as they say, to save a few dollars on the cost of liposuction.

As you can see, it’s not so simple of a question to answer. There are a lot of different factors which influence the price of liposuction, such as the body part to be treated, the amount of fat to be removed, and in some places, like Hollywood, the reputation of the doctor can greatly influence (translatino: skyrocket) the price.

Nevertheless, the internet is a wonderful thing, and has helped collect data from doctors and patients everywhere to come up with a price guide of sorts that we can fall back on as a baseline of expected costs when it comes to liposuction, or as some doctors prefer to call it, liposculpture.

The range of costs for liposuction are on the low end of just $1,500, and on the how end of $7,500. Interesting, but not very helpful or useful. What about specifics?

Here’s a good chart addressing the lower and upper range of fees assessed for various liposuction procedures:

• Upper and Lower Abdomen: $3,000 – $7,500
• Arms: $1,500 – $5,000
• Back: $1,500 – $4,000
• Breasts: $3,000 – $7,500
• Buttocks: $1,500 – $4,500
• Chin, Cheeks, Jowls, Neck: $2,000 – $4,500
• Flanks: $2,000 – $5,000
• Anterior Thighs and Knees: $2,000 – $5,000
• Inner Thighs and Knees: $2,000 – $5,000
• Hips/Waist: $1,600 – $5,000
• Outer Thighs: $1,600 – $5,000

Compare this with the users at another site whose overall various procedurse, including multiple treatments, etc, come to an average of a little more than $5,000 per person. This is an interesting tidbit because it’s highly common for patients to go in for more than one treatment. For some, $5,000 on average will not sound like a lot of money and will be worth the costs of liposuction.