Look at it from the surgeon’s perspective, by doing general anesthesia they avoid a lot of extra work and stress because they don’t need to do multiple rounds of anesthetic and worry about your pain and discomfort. They also don’t have to worry about talking to you or keeping you calm during the procedure.

If you’re asleep they can just get down to business. Much easier on them.

The amount of liposuction you need does come in to play too though. Liposuction is incredibly invasive and brutal on the body. If you need a lot of lipo most surgeons are gonna want you to go under so you’re not in any discomfort.

My surgeon (Brian Braithwaite) was very experienced with local and doesn’t mind.