Most medical imaging systems can give prospective patients a pretty good idea of how they would look after a liposuction surgery, yet the currently available technology for digital liposuction photos only show minimal and even misleading information.
When it comes to judging liposuction photos, current digital imaging is one of the least reliable ways to display the path as well as the result of the liposuction procedure. Current digital imaging systems cannot even tell doctors accurately of the hidden protruding hip or thigh bone structures in their patients, thus limiting a better design to be followed for the liposuction. Until better imaging systems are available, liposuction patients can only hope for the best with digital imagery. Yet, in this digital age, some unqualified doctors and their teams tend to manufacture or digitally alter their own photographic results. Some unethical practitioners have been known to digitally copy photos from other doctors or have digitally modified their own patients' liposuction photos to display in ads in order to convince and attract other prospective patients. Digital photography, of course, may be possible to use in doctoring photos to show patients how only a good result would look like.
Even so, liposuction photos are still a good reference for patients before and after their liposuction. Most credible surgeons have their patients photographed prior to the procedure. It often takes a wise practitioner to take photos as they mark their patient’s body areas they will treat and then also taking photos of the areas that had been treated. There is no reason for a surgeon not to have photograph records of his previous patients. A doctor's best way to document a cosmetic procedure is by taking photographs of his patients.
Any doctor who performs a liposuction without taking photographs before and after his patient has been treated should raise some apprehension to his succeeding patients. It is advisable for patients then to request to see copies of the liposuction photos of the previous patients of their surgeons. In doing this, the patient would then be able to judge results from true-to-life pictures rather than from something modified or digitally enhanced. Also, the patient would have a genuine idea of how a surgeon has performed in his previous liposuctions. If not, patients are then recommended to have their photos taken before their liposuction to be able to determine in the future if bad results in their figures had appeared due to the surgery.
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