What Can I Realistically Expect From My Liposuction?

Lots of people are considering getting liposuction (also called lipoplasty and suction lipectomy)

. The surgery enjoys a large degree of success in America and throughout the world. For twelve out of the last thirteen years, lipoplasty has been the number one most popular cosmetic surgery in the United States.

However, popular as the surgery is, relatively few people really understand it. Few people know exactly how a lipectomy is performed or what sorts of results it can actually produce. This article will help to explain this and help prospective patients to have a better understanding of the procedure.

Lipoplasty is a surgery that removes excess fat from one or a few target areas of a patient's body. The surgery is usually performed under local anesthesia, and it takes somewhere between one and several hours to perform.

During the surgery, the doctor uses a hollow needle called a cannula to assist in the removal of fat. After numbing the area and making a small incision, the doctor inserts the cannula into the fatty tissue of the patient's target area. By moving the cannula back and forth, the doctor breaks up the excess and unwanted fat. As he or she does this, the cannula (which is hooked up to a vacuum machine) also suctions the broken up fat from the patient's body.

Although the surgery can work very well when removing small amounts of fat from the body, it is not well-suited for total body weight loss or for the removal of large amounts of fat. Increasing the amount of fat that the surgery removes or the number of areas treated increases the amount of trauma that the body sustains, and it can lead to more complications.

Although exactly how much fat can safely be removed will depend on the patient's unique body and on the skill of the surgeon, liposuction should typically not be used to remove more than 6 to 8 pounds of fat. People who are looking for a more large-scale weight loss should probably consider other methods.

The people who will get the best results from their lipoplasty are people who are generally fit, but who have one or two problem areas where they store excess fat. Patients should be somewhere within 25 pounds of their target weight.

Most lipectomies do not cause large scale or obvious scarring. However, there are some exceptions. Picking a properly qualified and experienced surgeon will help you to get the best results out of your surgery.

by: Christian Heftel

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