subject: A Closer Look At Liposuction [print this page] Keeping the weight off is a battle that most of us will fight for the rest of our lives. Staying healthy can sometimes seem difficult. There just never seems to be enough time in the day to focus carefully on eating healthy foods and exercising on a regular basis. It has been recommended that the average adult exercise every day for at least forty-five minutes. Our lives are so busy and hectic that some days there just doesn't seem to be forty-five minutes to spare. For other, no amount of dieting, exercise, and weight loss gimmicks seem to do the trick. For this reason, some opt for liposuction.
Liposuction is a cosmetic surgery that has been designed to remove fat from the body in a variety of different areas, including the thighs, buttocks, abdomen, arms, neck, and other body parts. Although an interest in body contouring had been present for several decades, the procedure we know as liposuction was invented in 1974 by two American doctors working in Italy, Giorgio and Arpad Fischer. In 1982, just eight years later, a French surgeon by the name of Dr. Yves-Gerard Illouz created the modern method of liposuction. His method used a technique of infusing fluid into fatty tissues and then using suction-assisted lipolysis to suction the fat out. This method was later improved upon by doctors Jeffery Klein and Patrick Lillis, who introduced the tumescent technique. This technique introduced a fluid containing a local anesthesia so that the patient did not require general anesthesia.
There are several methods of liposuction used today. The most common method is suction-assisted liposuction. In this method, doctors use a small a cannula, or hollow tube like a straw, and insert it into an incision made by the doctor. The cannula is then attached to a small aspirator, or suction device, and the surgeon maneuvers the cannula so as to be able to suction out the broken up fat cells.
Another method is ultra-sound assisted liposuction or ultrasonic liposuction. In this method the cannula is a specialized device that transmits ultrasonic vibrations through the body, which breaks the walls of the fat cells and emulsifies the fat. This method makes it easier for the surgeon to suction out the broken down fat cells. Ultrasonic liposuction has been shown to have good results on more fibrous areas.
Liposuction methods like these have given results to thousands of patients around the world. Becoming fed up with traditional weight loss methods has caused many to turn to liposuction as a way to effectively sculpt the human body.
