Will Liposuction Perfect My Appearance?

It seems that people have always been intrigued by unattainable ideals of beauty

. The ancient Greeks carved statues to capture perfect proportions that they never actually experienced in real life. People today are similarly interested in attaining some form of physical perfection. Unlike the Greeks, though, modern society seems more interested in enhancing the physical body through cosmetic surgery than in statue making.

One of the most popular of these cosmetic surgeries is liposuction (also called lipoplasty and lipectomy). Last year, nearly 350,000 lipoplasties were performed in America alone. Large as this number is, it actually shows a recession sparked decrease from the year before: in 2007, there were over 455,000.

Liposuction is a surgical procedure which removes fat from the body with the assistance of suction. After numbing the area, usually through local anesthesia, a surgeon makes an incision in the skin and inserts a special tube called a cannula. A cannula looks a bit like a surgical needle; it's skinny and hollow and typically made out of metal. The cannula, which is hooked up to a vacuum device of some sort, is moved around through the patient's fatty tissue by the doctor. As it is moved around, it breaks up and vacuums out the excess fat.

Many people, especially in America, wish to use liposuction as a form of weight loss. However, lipectomy works much better at removing and slimming problem areas than at affecting drastic or total body weight loss. The more body fat a procedure removes, the more traumatic that surgery will be. Similarly, increasing the number of body areas treated during a single liposuction session treats will increase the amount of body trauma. In addition to the dangers of trauma to the body, removing large amounts of fat also frequently has a deleterious effect on the aesthetic success of the surgery. In short, the more fat is removed, the harder it is on your body and the easier it is for your surgeon to make slip-ups.

The ideal liposuction patient is in relatively good health and is within about 25 lbs of their ideal weight. The ideal patient has lost as much fat as possible through exercise and healthy diet, and has just a few problem areas where exercise-resistant fat has collected.

In these patients, liposuction can help to improve the contours of their body and provide them with a trimmer, more aesthetically appealing body. However, even in these cases, patients should remember that there is no guarantee that their surgery will magically make them fit an unattainable ideal. While patients often experience significant improvement in their appearance, people who expect the impossible are often disappointed. The happiest liposuction patients are the ones who have realistic expectations.

by: Christian Heftel

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