a procedureLiposuction

also: lipoplasty · suction-assisted lipectomy · lipo · body contouring

Clinics price it by area, and the definition of an area is the clinic's. Tumescent means the fat was flooded first with dilute local anaesthetic and adrenaline; power-assisted, ultrasound-assisted and laser-assisted name the machine.

Fat is broken up and aspirated through small cannulas passed under the skin, usually after the area has been flooded with dilute local anaesthetic and adrenaline. It removes fat, not weight and not skin: where skin has lost its recoil, the result is loose skin over a smaller volume. Large-volume removal is a physiologically bigger operation than the price pages suggest, and anaesthetic and fluid management is where the published complications cluster.

How long it takes

The numbers behind this

	Days
In hospital	1.0
Before a flight	—
Back to ordinary use	—

Root. liposuction: Greek lipos, fat, plus Latin sugere, to suck. Lipectomy, the older word on hospital price lists, is fat plus ektome, a cutting out - a different operation, in which skin and fat are excised rather than aspirated.
an area, a site and a zone are the same unit under three names, and no two clinics draw them the same way. A price 'per site' is uninterpretable until the page says what a site is. Trade practice

The story Cited

Liposuction is the most-performed surgical cosmetic procedure in the American society's annual count, and the one whose price is hardest to compare across borders, because the unit is invented by the seller. Yanhee in Bangkok prices a tumescent site at 55,000 baht and names ten named regions at 66,000 to 74,000 with a night on the ward. Premier Clinic in Prague prices one MicroAire area from 19,500 koruna, two from 56,000, three from 72,500, four from 85,000 - a curve that says the second area is the expensive one. Artplastica in Poland lists fat aspiration from 12,000 zloty with no area count at all. The American society publishes 4,711 US dollars as a surgeon's fee with no theatre in it.

Inference -- four prices, four units. Comparing them requires a reader to know how many areas each covers, and only one of the four pages says.

Liposuction also travels as an ingredient. Fat grafting to the buttock, to the breast and to the face all begin with a liposuction, and the harvest is priced inside those operations rather than beside them - which is why a buttock price and a liposuction price cannot be added together.

How it works Trade practice

Local anaesthesia with sedation for a small area, general for several; published Thai packages name one night, European day surgery is routine. Compression garments are worn for weeks. Swelling and firmness settle over months, and the contour at four weeks is not the contour at six months. Volume removed is the figure that changes the risk profile, and the safe ceiling in a single sitting is argued in the literature rather than fixed by one number.

Today Cited

The four published prices on this record, read in September 2026, span 12,000 zloty to 74,000 baht per named region, plus a US surgeon's fee of 4,711 dollars. Each one prices a different quantity of the same operation.

Notes

This page describes an operation. It gives no advice about having one.

What it costs where anyone publishes a price

a provider's package pricea state tariff or what a payer refundsa list price, an estimate or an advertised rangelogarithmic scale, US$

5 published prices for this procedure, across 4 countries.

The 5 prices behind this chart

Dollar figures are the published price put through one dated rate table; the published currency and date are in the next columns.

Country	Kind	US$	As published	Dated	Source
Czechia	quoted-range	926	19,500–85,000 CZK	2026-09-16	page
Thailand	quoted-range	1,500	1,500–4,000 USD	2026-09-17	page
Thailand	list	1,652	55,000–74,000 THB	2026-09-16	page
Poland	quoted-range	3,189	12,000 PLN	2026-09-16	page
United States of America	survey	4,711	4,711 USD	2026-09-16	page

Every price this directory has read, for every procedure, sits together on the prices page.

Published prices Cited

Each is a number read off a page on the date named, in the currency the provider bills in. Dollars are that number through one dated rate table.

19,500–85,000 CZK ≈ US$926–4,036

quoted-range · Prague · Czechia · for Liposuction

Includes.

MicroAire liposuction, one area at the bottom of the range, four areas at the top

Excludes.

not stated on the page

Published price dated 2026-09-16 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · one area from 19,500 CZK, two from 56,000, three from 72,500, four from 85,000. The jump from one area to two is larger than any step after it.

55,000–74,000 THB ≈ US$1,652–2,223

list · Bangkok · Thailand · for Liposuction

Includes.

one site, tumescent technique, at the bottom of the range
one night on the ward

Excludes.

not stated on the page

Published price dated 2026-09-16 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · 55,000 THB per site tumescent; named regions - both arms, upper abdomen, lower abdomen, hip and waist per side, back - at 66,000 THB; outer and inner thighs and calves at 74,000 THB

12,000 PLN ≈ US$3,189

quoted-range · Szczecin · Poland · for Liposuction

Includes.

fat aspiration

Excludes.

hospitalisation, listed separately at 800 PLN a day
the number of areas is not stated

Published price dated 2026-09-16 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · listed as 'from', with the clinic's statement that prices are indicative

4,711 USD ≈ US$4,711

survey · United States of America · United States of America · for Liposuction

Includes.

surgeon fee only

Excludes.

anesthesia
operating room facilities
other related expenses

Published price dated 2026-09-16 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · no year named on the page; the row carries the date it was read

1 more published prices for this procedure sit on other records — all of them together are on the prices page.

The particulars

family	cosmetic
setting	day-case
anaesthesia	varies
region	Everywhere
stay days	1
about those numbers	One night is the stay printed beside every liposuction line on the Yanhee table read for this record; day-case liposuction under local anaesthesia is routine elsewhere and carries no ward stay at all. No complication rate is carried here: the published series measure by volume aspirated and by anaesthetic setting, which are not comparable to a single figure for the operation. (2026-09-16) · source
links	Premier Clinic Prague price list
confidence	high · updated 2026-09-16

Not to be confused with

Abdominoplasty — Liposuction takes fat through a cannula and leaves the skin; abdominoplasty cuts skin and fat away and moves the navel. Packages sometimes sell both under one word.

What it connects to

a procedureGluteal fat graftingThe operation that begins with this one, and then injects what it harvested.and of this page it says: The first half of this operation, and the reason its price cannot be added to a liposuction price.a procedureAbdominoplastyThe operation that removes the skin this one leaves behind, and the one it is often sold beside.and of this page it says: The operation that takes the fat and leaves the skin; this one takes the skin.a procedureBreast augmentationWhere the harvested fat goes when no implant is used.and of this page it says: Where the fat comes from when the augmentation is done without an implant.a countryThailandWhere the price is published per named region of the body.a countryCzechiaWhere the price is published per area, with the area count on the page.a countryUnited StatesThe market whose published figure is a surgeon's fee rather than a price.a riskFitness for anaesthesia, assessed on arrivalLarge-volume aspiration is an anaesthetic problem as much as a surgical one.a wordPackage priceThe form in which areas, garments and ward nights are bundled or not.a long oneThe price that isn'tFour prices for one operation, each counting a different quantity.

Pages that point here

a country · on this pageBrazilOne of the operations behind the country's surgical count.a country · on this pageColombiaThe volume operation behind the country's surgical count.a country · on this pageDominican RepublicThe commonest procedure in the 2013-14 cluster, at 74% of cases.a cluster · on this pageMedellínThe base of the body-contouring trade here, sold with the garments and the massage.a cluster · on this pageSanto DomingoThe base of the body-contouring trade, and the wound the mycobacteria entered.a risk · on this pageDeath from gluteal fat graftingWhere the fat comes from, and its own share of the risk.a risk · on this pageFungal meningitis after epidural anaesthesiaAmong the cosmetic procedures the exposed patients had travelled for.a risk · on this pageNontuberculous mycobacteriaAmong the procedures in both Dominican clusters.an organization · on this pageInternational Society of Aesthetic Plastic SurgerySecond on its worldwide surgical ranking for 2024, at 2,087,189 procedures.an event · on this pageThe Dominican mycobacterial outbreaks, 2013–14 and 2017The commonest operation in the 2013–14 cluster, at 74% of cases.

Sources

Plastic Surgery Prices — Yanhee Hospital, Bangkok · link (read 2026-09-16)
Price List - Plastic Surgery — Premier Clinic, Prague · link (read 2026-09-16)
Cennik zabiegow i operacji plastycznych — Beauty Group - Artplastica, Szczecin · link (read 2026-09-16)
Liposuction Cost — American Society of Plastic Surgeons · link (read 2026-09-16)

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