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This treatment, first used in the
1980s, has revolutionised body
contouring in the 21st century
with multiple innovations being
added to improve patient results.

For many patients, fighting fat cells
can feel like an endless battle against
the bulge. You diet, you exercise,
but to no avail as those saddlebags,
love handles, and tummy pouches
have set up permanent residence.

Liposuction performed under provided that an experienced plastic 3. You can get back into your
general anaesthesia can surgeon performs the surgery for the groove right after liposuction
improve this. This involves: right indication. Newer, sophisticated The downtime from liposuction
1. Injecting a saline solution, methods have evolved over the varies depending on how many areas
with adrenaline to reduce last few years, resulting in safer, your plastic surgeon treats. In my
bleeding, into the fatty areas. improved results. These include laser practice, the cannulae insertion sites
2. This is sucked out using liposuction and the SAFE liposuction (each 3mm in length) are left open to
a thin cannula inserted technique using Power-Assisted allow the drainage of fluid in the first
through small incisions. Liposuction (PAL) handpieces. 24 hours, after which closure occurs
3. Precise amounts of fatty tissue spontaneously. This significantly
are removed, enhancing body 2. Liposuction can help you reduces swelling and bruising. Patients
contour and shape in a minimally- lose weight are also advised to use Arnica cream
invasive surgical manner. Liposuction is not a treatment to to minimise bruising and, at two
4. Incisions heal quickly, and patients are lose weight but a body contouring weeks after surgery, Velashape, a non-
back to normal after only a few days. technique that plastic surgeons invasive treatment, is recommended
5. Discomfort usually subsides within generally perform on exercise- and to improve skin tightening. The most
one to two weeks, and most swelling weight-resistant fatty deposits in common after-effects include swelling,
resolves within the next eight weeks. patients who are within roughly bruising, and pain at and around the
30 percent of a healthy weight treatment areas. Generally, patients
Although liposuction is a range. That being said, frequently, need to wear special garments for
popular and well-established in patients who do not meet these two weeks and can resume normal
procedure and has lost its criteria, debulking fat pockets can activities at six weeks after surgery.
mantle of mystery, a few improve contour, enhancing a
misconceptions still exist. patient’s appearance. A patient who 4. Liposuction is the ‘easy
These include: looks better feels better, exercises way out’
better, eats better, and subsequently Liposuction ideally treats exercise- and
1. Liposuction is dangerous loses weight and maintains weight diet-resistant fatty pockets to contour
Although no surgery is without risk, loss. Liposuction is then essentially and streamline areas in people of
liposuction is no more hazardous a psychological boost to those normal body mass index (BMI). It is thus
than any other cosmetic procedure, patients struggling with weight loss. not a weight-loss operation. Newer
etching techniques using Power-
Assisted Liposuction (PAL) with special
cannulae can accentuate shadows and
highlight other areas that enhance the
aesthetics, especially of the abdomen.

To conclude, liposuction is an effective,
safe, minimally-invasive technique
to improve the contours of the body,
provided an experienced, qualified
plastic surgeon performs this procedure
using state-of-the-art equipment
to enhance the clinical results.

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