Liposuction Surgery

Liposuction surgery

       If you are considering in experiencing liposuction, it is important that your expectations to be realistic. Although you can achieve successful results, they may not be so obvious immediately as you would probably want. The success of a liposuction surgery depends on a number of factors like age, weight, skin elasticity or overall health. Liposuction surgery disadvantages people with a weak immune system, people who suffer from diabetes, heart or people who have artery problems, and a history of blood clots or restricted blood flow.

        A person who has normal weight, healthy, elastic skin and have areas which need some adjustment like tights, butt and tummy, that does not respond to diet or physical exercises, it is a good candidate for liposuction surgery. Also women who want a smaller breast, and men who suffer from gynecomastia are good candidates too.

Liposuction surgery requirements

       The patients should be at least over 18 years old. Liposuction surgery is forbidden to pregnant women, people with health problems are also forbidden to have this procedure.

Liposuction surgery real expectations

       Do not expect that this procedure to help you loose a substantial amount of weight, nor can eliminate the cellulite from the skin. The liposuction surgery can only help you to loose small, localized concentration of fat deposits. In majority of the cases, 10 pounds of fat or even less can be removed from the area. Do not expect that the liposuction surgery to change a lot your appearance, because you might get disappointed. People with good skin elasticity will experience the most pleasing results.

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Choosing a liposuction surgeon

       You should pay a lot of attention in choosing your specialist. View some pictures of before and after of patients, and very important is to discover how many procedures of this kind your specialist performed in the past. A qualified liposuction surgeon not only should have years of experience, but also needs to be willing to discuss in the most realistic way the procedures of such kind of operations in detail with his patient. Liposuction surgery works best for fields such as the face and body with fat deposits which can resist to overall weight loss.

Liposuction surgery types

       Tumescent liposuction. The specialist makes an injection with a large amount of anesthetic inside the field which needs to be removed (local anesthesia). Another type of liposuction surgery would be ultrasonic liposuction, which means that some ultrasound waves will liquefy the fat before it is being removed. Power assisted liposuction implies the using of a cannula, which allows the surgeon to make smaller incisions so that the procedure to be more comfortable for the patient.

       Although the liposuction surgery removes an amount of fat cells, this does not guarantee that you will not put some fat again. For this thing not to happen you should keep a moderate diet and be sure to make some physical exercises. It will not only help you maintain your weight, but it will also improve your health and will help you prevent other diseases. Liposuction surgery is one of the most popular procedures in the United States.

Liposuction surgery steps

• Marking the body. With the help of a marker your specialist will draw some lines on your body for helping him make the surgery.
• Anesthesia. Usually the surgery is performed under total anesthesia, but in some cases local anesthesia is used too.
• Wetting solutions are injected inside the area that needs treated. The fluid contains salt water, epinephrine and a local sedative. The wetting solutions are used for reducing the blood loss and n this way increases the safety of this procedure.
• The fat removal, which means the inserting of a cannula through a small incision.