What Does Skin Elasticity Have To Do With Liposuction?

More and more people from all walks of life are turning to liposuction in order to remove excess fat from their bodies

. These people hope that liposuction (also known as suction lipectomy and lipoplasty) can help improve their appearance and make them more aesthetically pleasing. This increased interest has also fueled a number of new technologies and techniques in the field, such as SmartLipo, ProLipo, CoolLipo, LipoLite, and LipoTherme. Some of these new techniques are more able to deal with problems of skin elasticity than the older methods, but it is still important for people to understand the factors that help to decide what sorts of results a lipoplasty will have, and one of these is skin elasticity.

A person with elastic skin has tight-fitting skin that doesn't appear to have excess wrinkles or bags. One way to test your own skin elasticity is to pinch a section of skin on the back of your hand for several seconds and then let go. The longer your skin takes to go back to being flat, the less elastic your skin is.

Skin elasticity is determined by a number of factors. It is partly genetic, and it tends to be connected to age. Older people tend to have less elastic skin than young people. Also, people who have previously been obese but who have lost significant amounts of weight tend to have less elastic skin.

Because liposuction removes excess fat, it tends to work best on people with highly elastic skin. Liposuction is performed with the help of small hollow tubes called cannulas. A surgeon makes small incisions on a patient and inserts a cannula through these incisions. The excess fat is subsequently suctioned out through the cannula.

In people with relatively elastic skin, the skin contracts over time and adapts to the new smaller form of the patient. This leaves the site of liposuction with a trimmer and more streamlined appearance. Sometimes, if a person has extremely inelastic skin, or if a person already has wrinkly folds of excess skin, then liposuction can exacerbate this problem.

Patients who have large amounts of excess skin, but who nonetheless wish to lose fat through liposuction should consider whether they think the improved appearance due to weight loss would outweigh the possibility of a slight increase of excess skin.

If you are considering getting a liposuction, but find yourself wondering whether or not your skin is elastic enough for it to be helpful, you may want to speak with some surgeons in your area. Many surgeons offer free consultations to potential clients. In these consultations, you may be able to find out a little better whether or not you are a good candidate. They can help you to have a better understanding of what you can reasonably expect to gain from a liposuction.

by: Christian Heftel

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