LIPOSUCTION PROCEDURE

More and more people are turning to liposuction - otherwise known as lipoplasty, liposculpture or suction lipectomy (suction-assisted removal of) - and it is a medical procedure normally conducted under a full anaesthetic, which involves the removal fat deposits from various places across the human body. The most common places to remove fatty deposits under this cosmetic surgery procedure are from the buttocks, thighs, stomach, neck and the backs of people's arms. Generally the fat is sucked out of the body via a vacuum pump through a small tube called a cannula.

It is acknowledged that although liposuction is a fairly controversial procedure because it is seen by many as the lazy person's way of losing weight, some fat deposits in particular areas of the body may not respond to conventional weight loss through diets and through exercise programmes. Your Doctor is bound to advise you that liposuction is definitely not an alternative to diet and exercise.

For sure, if people do not change their lifestyle after liposuction and return to their normal eating habits and sedentary way of life, the fat will return. In a sense, liposuction can be seen as a method of body contouring but there are some worrying risks in undergoing the procedure. Whatever you may think, it is definitely not a weight loss procedure!. Statistically, the average amount of fat that is surgically removed by liposuction is normally less than 10 pounds.

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There is no question that a skilled physician who follows good judgement will not compromise the health of the patient by pushing the conventional limits. This is because there are some downsides to removing too much fat and these cannot be ignored. These can be result in a general lumpiness or indentations in the skin if too much fat is removed in one session.

Interestingly, many people tend to misspell liposuction and the three key variants are lipsuction, lyposuction and even liposucktion.

It is acknowledged by leading experts that the more fat that is removed in one liposuction treatment the higher the risk to the patient. There are reports of patients that have shed as much as fifty pounds of fat in one go, but these are felt to be exaggerated.

On thing is for sure, the patient needs to be in otherwise good health in order for liposuction to be performed and smokers will be asked to give up the habit a number of months beforehand.

Liposuction first came about in the late 1960's, but today's liposuction treatments emerged in the early 1980's when the Illouz process pioneered a technique of suction-assisted fat withdrawal using blunt, hollow tubes and high-vacuum suction techniques. During the later part of the 1980s, a number of surgeons in the Unites States experimented with liposuction, developing different variations and achieving varied results.

In 1985, two American dermatologists developed the tumescent technique, which delivered better results and better safety safety features by eliminating the need for general anaesthesia. Instead, the patient was given a local anaesthetic while the liposuction treatment was performed and were there partly conscious. This was follows later that decade by ultrasound techniques which helped the fat removal by firstly liquefying the deposits using ultrasonic energy. However, after initially encouraging results, an increase in medical complications slowed down the enthusiasm for this procedure.

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