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Liposuction is a surgical procedure which allows a surgeon to go into your body to remove extra fat deposits and to shape or reshape your body. The excess fat is removed by going under the skin with an ultrasonic probe which will then emulsify the fat and it will be removed with the suction.

Liposuction is not just for the stomach and abdominal area. You are able to get liposuction on many areas of your body including; your hips area, neck, butt, arms, calves, face, or back. You also have the option of getting liposuction done on more than one area at the same time. For example, you could get liposuction on your stomach, back, and arms in the same day.

More men have started to opt into getting liposuction done also. The most common area for men is the chest area to reduce breast size or to remove lipomas, or fat tumors. However, please note than liposuction is not an alternative to a healthy diet and exercise plan. Liposuction only helps to remove the areas of fat that have not responded to a traditional weight-loss method.

Liposuction can be performed by plastic surgeons or by dermatologists, although any authorized physician can perform liposuction. Most physicians’ professional associations highly recommend training for liposuction, even though no standardized training is mandatory.

Always make sure to ask whether or not your doctor has had specialized training in liposuction and have had success with it in the past. However, there is always the chance of the liposuction procedure having complications. This surgery is a bigger risk for those who have medical conditions like heart disease, lung disease, poor blood circulation, diabetes or who have had surgery recently. Inform your doctor of any medical conditions you might have.

Liposuction surgery has helped many people transition into a healthier lifestyle easier and has also helped to raise the self-esteem and well-being in those individuals also.

Liposuction is the permanent removal of fat. This procedure is recommended only to those who are obese (excessively overweight), as this procedure removes large amounts of fat over several sessions of surgery. Anywhere from four to six liters of pure fat is able to be removed in each session.

The most common areas for women to get liposuction are in the abdomen, chin, hips and thighs. Men have also gone with liposuction to reduce the size of their stomachs.

Liposuction is one of the safest forms of cosmetic surgery there is and is performed as day surgery and requires only the use of a local anesthetic.

Liposuction can be performed on people of all ages, but older patients do not receive the same result, as their skin elasticity is less than a younger person who has tighter skin.

Any procedure, including liposuction, involves many risks and complications. Before going through with the surgery, make sure that the surgeon you have chosen is recommended and has a reputation of being honest and safe.
The author is a regular contributor to Better Body Now where more liposuction and plastic surgery information is available.

Liposuction surgery is an operation that requires not only your full attention to all the points, but it also needs your clear mind about choosing the best surgeon to operate on you. Surgeons are as different as snowflakes are: every physician has their own methods to perform liposuction surgery, as well as his or her different approach. Although liposuction surgery is one and the same, every surgeon has different abilities to perform it, so you should be very careful when picking up the most suitable one.

Don’t trust surgeons who tell they never make mistakes. Have in mind that liposuction surgery is an extremely complicated operation, so mistakes can easily happen, especially when your surgeon boasts too much. First and foremost, your surgeon must be well aware about all the risks that liposuction surgery can bring to the patients. Secondly, he or she should accept their own imperfection: no-one can be a hundred per cent sure that everything will go smooth.

One thing you need to investigate about your doctor is whether he or she has taken a degree in a reputable medical school. The medical school must be an US one, not placed in exotic countries such as Mexico or Niger. Although not all outlandish universities are wrong, an exotic university is an indicator that this doctor may not have succeeded to get into a good medical school in America. Then , you should check if the surgeon has been trained in a reputable hospital: this indicates that he or she has practical experience in addition to their University education. Residency training is done only in public medical centres and hospitals: not in the offices of professionals, who work private. The medical education must be standartized, and it is only done at public medical places such as hospitals.

The third thing you need to check is the written publications and press reports of your surgeons. Remember that only the best surgeons public medical materials in the press. Lecturing physicians doesn’t necessary signify good medical training: many people can give out public lectures, but this only means that they are good orators. Always trust the popular medical magazines, and if you find the name of your surgeon in some publications, that will certainly mean that he or she has innovative ideas and well-trained approach.

The fourth thing you need to know about your doctor, is her or his hobbies: whether or not they are in the field of liposuction surgery can be significant for their medical competence. Plastic surgeons more often call themselves “artists”: this means that they are considering their plastic work as a form of art. It is art, and many plastic surgeons and liposuction physicians have their own exhibitions of the improvements in human bodies that they have done. Ask your surgeon to show you his or her drawings of perfectly shaped and operated body areas.

Another thing about your surgeon’s hobbies is whether he or she is competent in some sports activity: this indicates a good level of hand and eye coordination, also good sense and motor coordination. Lack of coordination is an important drawback in post-operational activities such as sewing, cutting and handling a patient’s tissue.

Ask who has undergone a liposuction surgery with the help of this surgeon. Try to find all his previous patients, and ask the staff how an operation is proceeded. Perhaps they can tell you a few facts worth knowing. 

Liposuction is getting more and more popular among population. Everyone is undertaking different operational interventions on some areas of their body. Have you wondered when liposuction, so commonplace today, was first invented? The first mention of the word “liposuction” was in 1977- it was a report published by the Italian physician G. Fischer.

Liposuction was invented as a successful operation in 1974 by the same Giorgio Fischer. Illouz and Fournier were the French surgeons to further evolve liposuction around 1978. They used blunt tipped cannulas.

Around the time of 1980, liposuction has already become an important part of American surgery, although patients still evaded it due to the healthy defects, including bleedings and scars of incisions, which were left from the operation. It was not until 1985, when Dr Jeffrey Klein, a dermatologist form California, invented the tumescent technique, that liposuction became really popular among a lot of people in the US. The tumescent technique is a revolution in modern surgery, as it is performed by local anesthesia, using only small -diameter cannulas. This reduced to a minimum the unpleasant after effects of bleeding and scars on the treated area. The cannulas of that time were of about 6-to 10 mm, in comparison to today’s minor-diameter cannulas of about 2 mm. The cross sectional areas were 10 to 25 times greater than today’s finer operational interventions.

Furthermore, the wet technique evolved. It included penetration of different medical substances, such as epinephrine, into the areas to be sucked out. This vasoconstructive solution prevents the area from bleeding and other postoperative defects. The dry technique, which was developed earlier, was known as using no infiltration into the body areas.

But how did liposuction finally come to the US? 1982 was the crucial point when several American dermatologists, plastic and cosmetic surgeons visited France to observe Illouz do liposuction. The technique was easy to catch, and in the next 1983, Americans were doing liposuction using general anesthesia, insufficient regional anesthesia, or hard sedatives supplemented by small volumes of local anesthesia. But liposuction was not getting to the mass public until the tumescent technique was discovered.  In the 1980’s and early 1990’s liposuction was basically associated with excessive bleeding, prolonged recovery time, and disfiguring irregularities of the skin.
It was about that time when the tumescent technique started catching up popularity amongst surgeons.

After the discovery of this amazing technique, Dr Klein started giving lectures on the subject to a lot of students. By that time, liposuction with local anesthesia was considered impossible. But not to Dr Klein: he was the first to do a small volume liposuction using only anesthesia on the inflicted area. But the real question that troubled the minds of the surgeons, was how much volume of fat can be extracted when using only local anesthesia. Dr Klein soon found an answer to that problem. The ideal quantity was 500 mg of lidocaine and 0.5 mg of epinephrine, used in many operations. But Dr Klein soon discovered that the increase of the dilution also raised the quantity of fat to be extracted from subcutaneous areas. This discovery was of great importance to the liposuction procedure, but it also has its limitations: there is a certain quantity of lidocaine to be injected safe for the body. This dilution was ahead to be discovered.

The solution turned out to be 500 mg of lidocaine and 1 mg of epinephrine in 50 milliliters. This liquid became the most successful one, removing a 100 mg of fat. Dr Klein was the first man to do a tumescent liposuction on the 5th of April, 1985, on the abdomen area of a patient. The patient felt neither pain, nor bleeding. The dilution turned out to be successful, and the new era of the liposuction surgery was about to begin.