Posted on: January 5, 2023
After breast surgery, liposuction is one of the most demanded surgical interventions by women and men. This plastic surgery has become the favorite when patients want to eliminate localized fat, difficult to eliminate even when following a diet and regular exercises to tone the body.
Liposuction is a surgical procedure where I focus on extracting the adipose tissues located in various parts of the body; the most common is fat located in the lower abdomen and back. The surgery begins with the application of general anesthesia and when my patient is asleep, I make two holes in the lower part of the abdomen, one at each end; With a cannula connected to a suction device, I prepare to extract the excess fat in the area. After inserting the cannula under the patient’s skin, I begin to make straight movements from top to bottom while I palpate the area. When I consider that the surface of the abdomen is already flat and the fat extracted is indicated, I withdraw the cannula and finish the operation.
Because liposuction incisions are small, you don’t need sutures; My team and I put a tight girdle on the patient so that the skin is attached to the muscle and adapts to the new contour.
After explaining the details of the intervention, I will present the most frequent questions that my patients ask me in the office when they want to have liposuction.
It is important to follow the initial care after your liposuction procedure, such as the use of a medicated girdle and performing postoperative therapies. In a later stage of your recovery, you must maintain the result achieved with liposuction. by following the dietary care that we give you in the office and performing physical activities that you like, so that they become part of your daily habits. .
Postoperative therapies after aesthetic procedures such as liposculpture or liposuction, abdominoplasty, breast surgery, buttock surgery, among others, are essential. These therapies consist of the application of ultrasound and lymphatic drainage mainly, which will help you reduce inflammation faster and prevent the formation of fibrosis. Massages are a fundamental part of your recovery helping to improve the final result.
The incisions I make for procedures to remove body fat tissue, either through liposuction or lipolysis, are very small, less than half a centimeter, so the initial scars are very little noticeable and gradually disappear over time. In addition, I place them in hidden places under the underwear or the bathing suit.
The choice to perform a liposuction or a tummy tuck will depend on the conditions of your abdomen after pregnancy. If there are stretch marks, very obvious cesarean scars, sagging skin or marked weakness of the abdominal muscles, it is best to perform a tummy tuck; plastic surgery will allow me to correct these alterations. On the contrary, if you have any of these conditions and I perform liposuction, due to the weight loss that occurs, we would worsen the appearance of your abdominal region. In cases where the flaccidity of your skin is not so marked, choose a lipolysis or liposuction. is the right thing to do; Using this technique, the retraction of the skin is better and we avoid the risk of increasing flaccidity.
The extraction of fatty tissue through liposuction is a surgical procedure that will help you lose weight and size. The magnitude of this loss will depend on the volume of fat extracted in each patient, as well as the care taken in diet and physical exercise routines. Patients who manage to maintain post-liposuction discipline are able to achieve their ideal weight. For no reason, liposuction is a plastic surgery indicated for people with obesity, because with the surgical technique I only eliminate the most located fat in various parts of the body.
Like any surgical procedure, liposuction. is a plastic surgery that will entail some discomfort after its completion. To relieve them, I give my patients painkillers strong enough to make their recovery as good as possible. The use of the girdle and the performance of postoperative massages will help to reduce disability. In all cases, the discomfort will be less than the comments that the patient receives from her friends when they tell her that she is going to have this surgery. In addition, there are new techniques to not create as much discomfort in the patient as laser liposuction or ultrasound.
As a certified plastic surgeon, I focus on removing all the localized fat that bothers my patient, so that the final result is a flat abdomen, in the event that liposuction. is in the abdominal area. If you follow each one of my medical indications: a balanced diet low in fat and regular physical exercises, the fat will not appear again because you are working on your body to maintain your silhouette as you want.
If you are a patient who, despite having the desired results after the intervention, does not follow the diet recommended by my medical team, or concentrate on exercising regularly, the fat will probably appear again, because you have not changed definitively. habits that produced the appearance of fatty tissue.
The body parts indicated for liposuction are the abdomen, lower back, hips, thighs, buttocks, arms and jowls (area below the chin). Before recommending liposuction, I must make an assessment to determine if that area of the body that you indicate to me is suitable to extract enough fat. After you tell me what you want, as a plastic surgeon, I will explain what I can achieve in your body with the procedure.
