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Some people are just “dying” to rid themselves of what they view as being excess fat...literally dying in some cases. A survey of plastic surgeons in the United States suggests that more people die during liposuction procedures than in any other type of cosmetic surgery.

Liposuction involves the sucking out of excess fat from an individual’s body. More often than not, these procedures are performed in an office or clinic rather than a hospital operating room. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), liposuction is the most common cosmetic procedure in the United States.

However, studies suggest that it is also the most unsafe cosmetic procedure in the United States. 917 plastic surgeons reported 95 deaths in more than 496,000 liposuction surgeries. That averages out at 19 deaths per 100,000 or 1 in 5,224. The most common cause of death was pulmonary embolism, a blood clot. Generally accepted death rates for surgeries that are not essential to one’s survival are 1 per 100,000. In fact, research suggests that more people are killed during liposuction procedures than in car accidents; death rates for car accidents are 16.1 per 100,000.

Part of the problem is a result of patient refusal to acknowledge that liposuction is, in fact, a dangerous procedure. 75% of those patients who died as a result of liposuction surgery had their surgeries in a clinic instead of a hospital. Most of those died after they had been declared stable and sent home.