Plastic Surgery Liposuction

As time passes, various environmental and social factors, along with conditions such as pregnancy, weight fluctuations, type of work and gravity effects, start showing their presence on one’s body in the form of unwanted fat deposits. But today, there are quite a few techniques of fat removal. Different types of surgical options in this regard are weight loss surgery and liposuction.

Liposuction is also called as fat modeling or lipoplasty. It is used for removal of cellulite and fat removal. Different types of surgical options that fall under this category are wet liposuction, tumescent liposuction, super-wet liposuction, ultrasound liposuction and laser-assisted liposuction.

Wet liposuctions use saline solutions for loosening the targeted fat in the presence of an anesthetic solution. If the amount of solution injected into the patient’s body equals the volume of fat removal, then the technique is called as super-wet liposuction. Tumescent liposuction is done through injecting anesthetic solution and drugs for facilitating constriction of blood vessels so that bleeding can be minimized. As against wet liposuctions, no saline solution is injected in this case. This is one of the most widespread methods of fat removal. Different types of surgical options are available today that use modern technology for fat removal purposes. Laser assisted and ultrasound liposuctions are two such procedures. But, both have certain complications. In fact ultrasound liposuctions are no more recommended.

In all these surgeries, small incisions are made on the patient’s targeted area of the body for facilitating the suctioning of broken down fat from the body. Depending on the size of the incisions, either microcannulas (tube) or larger cannulas are used for this purpose.

If the target is to remove fat that lies deep down, or to remove fat for weight reduction, liposuction might not suffice. In such cases, one has to opt for weight loss surgeries. This Plastic Surgery Liposuction aims at high quantity of fat removal. Different types of surgical options in this regard are lap band or gastric banding surgery and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, both of them being the most popular weight loss surgeries. Some other procedures in this regard are biliopancreatic diversion, either with or without duodenal switch, and vertical banded gastroplasty.

Excessive fats are always a cause of concern as they pave the way for other kinds of grave diseases like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and even death. More than 300, 00 people die every year due to obesity in the U.S itself. Hence, these surgeries do help in fighting these undesirable consequences.