From Tom Venuto's Blog: Liposuction: Risks, Safety and Natural Alternatives

Thinking that liposuction will be easier than learning to Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle? This report from Tom Venuto might change your mind:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says, “Most patients are pleased with the outcome of their liposuction surgery.” However, it IS true that liposuction is the most dangerous type of cosmetic surgery and that more people die from liposuction than any other type of cosmetic surgery. The most common cause of death is blood clots.

A report by Dr. Frederick Grazer of Penn State and Dr. Rudolph de Jong of Thomas Jefferson Medical college says that to date, 917 plastic surgeons reported 95 deaths in over 496,000 liposuction surgeries. If you do the math, that comes out to 19 deaths per 100,000 or 1 death in 5,224.

The so called “acceptable” death rates for elective (non life-threatening) surgeries are 1 per 100,000. To give you a comparison, these statistics show that more people are killed during liposuction procedures than in automobile accidents (16.1 deaths per 100,000).