What is liposuction?
Liposuction is a surgical intervention applied to reshape and regulate the unbalanced fat deposition in your body. Liposuction, which is especially an effective solution for regional fat deposition, is also utilized as an auxiliary element in many aesthetic surgery procedures. For example, liposuction is used in gynecomasty operations applied for augmented breast problem in men. In knock-knee correction operations, fatty tissue can be collected from another part of the patient and added to the problematic area in order to disguise the knock-knee. In short, liposuction is a very common procedure used to improve and render more effective the results of an aesthetic surgical procedure.
And if liposuction surgeries are used without any other procedure, they are performed mainly for persistent regional fat depositions that are resistant against diet and exercise. This region that causes fatty and bulging area can be removed by liposuction application and reshaped like a sculpture in order to restore a natural contour.
Today, there are many different types of liposuction used in aesthetic surgery. The purpose of all liposuction types is to dispose of the fat and provide contour correction for the patient or to support another aesthetic surgical intervention. They vary in terms of benefits and effectiveness.
In Turmescent Liposuction, an anesthetic solution is injected to the problematic area to dilate the region in order to minimize bleeding and post-operative discomfort.
In Ultrasound Liposuction, ultrasound energy is utilized to remove larger amounts of fat in an easier and faster way by loosening the fatty tissue.
And Laser Liposuction is performed by using laser technologies known by the brand names of Smartlipo or Slimlipo. In addition, there are liposculpture methods.
How liposuction is performed?
Liposuction can be performed under local anesthesia when it is used solely and not as an auxiliary technique for another aesthetic surgery. General anesthesia may also be preferred. Your aesthetic surgeon will decide the mode of anesthesia and procedure areas are restricted by drawings with pen. One or more incisions are performed close to the treatment area. Thin canulas or very thin tubes are inserted through these incisions depending on the technique to be used. With the guidance of the surgeon, vibration of the device melts the subcutaneous fat tissues and enables them to be removed from the body. Duration of the procedure depends on the size of the area and the amount of fat subject to suction.
Post-liposuction
With today’s liposuction techniques, swelling, bruise and ripples on the skin are minimized. Most of the patients can continue their daily lives from where they left off a few days after the procedure depending on the extent of the procedure and physical intensity of their daily lives. Although pain depends on your pain threshold, many patients can get through their recovery periods without any pain medication.
If needed, your surgeon may recommend you to wear a corset after liposuction. This is a precautionary application aimed to prevent skin contraction and swelling. The scars of small incisions recover within a few weeks and they completely disappear after one year.
Vaser liposuction
Over time, liposuction techniques, which mean fat sucking, have changed with the advancement of medicine to the benefit of the patient.
In the classical method, ie first generation fat removal method, the fats in our body were smashed mechanically after being inflated with serum and taken out by vacuum. However, this method was dependent on the practice of the doctor, and it could have caused sagging when the excess fat was removed. In fact, the liposuction method, which mechanically smashed the fat, can cause vein and nerve damage, but the sound waves used in the vaser liposuction technique do not have such side effects.
In order to minimize the side effects of liposuction surgery, laser-lipo technique, that is, laser technology was developed by means of laser removal method, but reaching the targeted results were made possible by the third generation vaser liposuction. Because the laser liposuction method, which we can see as the second generation, always had the possibility of skin burns during surgery even in careful hands.
Now with vaser liposuction, undesirable fat areas in the skin’s lower layers are reached by sound waves and these tissues are liquefied and disintegrated. The fat tissue located immediately under the skin and that gives the shape to the body is not damaged by this process. Thus, skin sagging, fluctuation, roughening is not experienced.
Bleeding and bruising does not occur because the blood vessels are less affected. The period of recovery of the tissue that is less damaged during the surgery is also shortened. The patient returns to normal life in a shorter time.
Moreover, since the convenience of use of the vaser liposuction technique saves time in obtaining the fat by a doctor, the patients remain under anesthesia for a shorter period of time.