Plastic Surgery Center
Tumescent Liposuction, Liposculpture
The Art of Beautiful Liposculpture There are
a number of key elements to the Art of creating
beautiful liposculpture: balance and harmony,
the creation of slenderness, attractive flowing
contours, smoothness of the skin, skin firmness
and an
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understanding of the liposculpture.
Not to mention understanding and satisfying patients
desires?
UNDERSTANDING THE SCULPTURE One of the
most important elements is to understand the sculpture;
that is to understand and satisfy the desires of the
patient. To do this the surgeon must take the time
to listen to his patient and allow the patient to
feel comfortable enough to express his or her fears
and desires. In the end, the sculpture is only beautiful
if the patient considers it is beautiful. With talent
and skill from the surgeon who understands the art’s
key elements, beautiful liposculpture results can
be created.
Tumescent Liposuction
The Ultimate Body Sculpting Technique
called Liposuction has been added to complement the
traditional forms of liposuction.
What is Liposuction?
Liposuction is a surgical procedure
designed to remove small excess fat.
Liposuction complements Tumescent Liposuction.
With the Tumescent technique, large volumes of saline
solution, local anesthesia, and adrenaline are infused
into the area being treated to cause swelling. This
enables us to go more superficially under the skin.
Liposuction uses high frequency sound waves to liquefy
subcutaneous fat cells and facilitate low level aspiration.
The ultrasonic energy acts primarily on the fat cells
and has no effect on the vascular, nervous, or connective
tissues. With Liposuction we can achieve smoother
results, remove difficult fibrous fatty deposits and
aspirate more fat.
What areas can be treated?
The most frequent areas treated by Liposuction
in men are the love handles, abdomen and neckline.
In women they include: thighs, hips, buttocks, stomach,
knees, lower leg, cheeks and double chins. Some women
elect to have their fat recycled to other parts of
their body using lipo-augmentation.
Who are the best candidates for Liposuction?
There are no definite weight or age
guidelines or restrictions. Most patients have localized
fatty deopsits, are within thirty pounds of their
ideal weight, and have been stable at that weight
for years. The best candidates for body sculpting
are patients who:
- Have realistic expectations of the
procedure. - Have tried diet, exercise and weight
loss programs.
- Are only slightly to moderately overweight.
- Understand liposuction is not a weight loss program.
- Have firm, elastic skin and are in
good health. - Do not expect dramatic lifestyle changes.
- Have disproportionate areas of localized
fat.
What will my recovery be like?
You will wear a snug elastic dressing,
girdle, or body stocking over the treated are for
the next several weeks. You will go home after the
procedure and rest for at least 24 hours, after which
you may gradLiposuctionly increase your activity as
tolerated. After 2 or 3 days you may resume non-strenous
activities.
Will I need a second procedure?
Most likely one procedure will be sufficient.
However, some patients require a fine- tuning procedure
at a future date.
How are the benefits of Liposuction
measured?
Cosmetically speaking, successful Liposuction
is measured in inches rather than pounds. The weight
removed is not as important as the improvement in
your body's contour. Most important is our patient's
improved self-image and self- acceptance.
How will my skin look after surgery?
Dimples, ripples and stretch marks remain
unchanged. The changes following liposuction are similar
to what you would expect if you could lose an equal
amount of localized fat through diet and exercise
alone. The use of smaller cannula allows the fibrous
connections between your skin and body to remain.
These connections will contract over time. As a result,
excessive skin folds are so rare that many patients
avoid the necessity for surgical skin excision by
having excellent results with Liposuction alone.
Is the fat removal permanent?
Yes! It seems that after puberty we
do not create new fat cells. When you gain weight,
you expand the fat cells that you have. Tumescent
liposuction permanently removes fat cells to improve
your body's contour. Should you gain weight after
liposuction, it goes to the fat cells that remain
in your body. The localized fatty deposits that existed
prior to liposuction can no longer balloon up out
of proportion to the surrounding areas.
Will Liposuction get rid of cellulite?
Liposuction is not a treatment for cellulite,
although many patients do notice an improvement in
the appearance of cellulite after the fat cells are
removed.
Lipo- injection, Fat Transplantation
Today, through modern technology, a
variety of procedures are available to correct skin
defects such as deep furrows and wrinkles as well
as other areas in which depressions in the skin exist.
One such procedure, autologous (derived from the same
individual) Fat Transplantation, also called fat transfer,
is currently being used to recontour the face, enhance
the cheek and chin, correct facial or body deformities,
and more recently, as a breast augmentation procedure.
Face Lift
The only areas of the face itself on
which liposuction can be performed safely are the
jowls, which are those fatty accumulations on the
lower jaw line 2-3 cm on each side of the midline
and also the adjacent area of the face over the lower
jaw. This is usually combined with liposuction of
the double chin area immediately beneath the central
lower jaw line. Removing fatty deposits from these
areas can produce aesthetically clean lines the whole
of the lower jaw area and completely rejuvenate the
appearance.
Lip augmentation
The most common fillers are collagen,
hyaluronic acid and autologous fat (one’s own
fat). They all need to be repeated but those who use
them are willing to accept this because of the good
effects, In fact, their temporary nature can be an
advantage in avoiding the problems of misplacement
of the use of excessive amounts of a permanent filler.
Even when a proper amount of a permanent filler is
placed accurately, with the change of shape of the
soft tissues produced by gravity with the passage
of time the filler may eventually be in an inappropriate
position. Collagen is mainly used as a filler for
wrinkles, whereas the hyaluronic acid products and
fat are used for grooves and depressions, All can
be used for enhancing the lops. Transferring one’s
own fat to the facial areas can be of particular use
in the lops and cheeks, Even given a good technique,
the repose to fat transfer can still be very individual.
In some instances the fat still disappear within a
period of 6 weeks. In the best scenario, some residual
fat will remain after some months. Realistically it
as recommended as a procedure that needs to be repeated.
Cheek augmentation
Cheek augmentation STRUCTURAL IMPLANTS
Facial Implants “Sunken cheeks can give a person’s
face a melancholy, sad or dejected appearance. Similarly
a ‘ weak “ deficient chin can spoil a
profile, exaggerate the nose and make the neck appear
‘heavy’. We introduced through small slits
in the skin and results are usually immediate and
are permanent unless the implant.
Chin Augmentation
A chin augmentation is designed to add
size or move forward a receding chin. The procedures
used in mentoplasty; is chin implant. In this technique,
the incision is made inside the mouth. The procedure
lasts for 1 hour. A mentoplasty can be performed under
local anesthesia in which the area is numbed and the
patient remains awake.
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