When it comes to keeping the cosmetic surgery industry moving forward, liposculpture continues to be king. Whether you call in lipoplasty, liposuction, or liposculpture, this fat removing technique continues to treat nearly half a million people each year in the operating room. This what keeps liposculpture as the number one cosmetic surgery options for weight loss every year.
In this article, we will look at the basics when it comes liposculpture. This is intended to be of help for anyone out there curious about the procedure and what it entails to lose weight with such a surgical procedure.
Let’s start by breaking down the terminology used here. Liposculpture is the perfect word to describe the surgery. Lipo is from lipid, which is synonymous with fat. Sculpture refers to the methods in which the cosmetic surgeons sculpt the skins appearance after removing body fay from a patient. It all comes together quite nicely!
The surgery itself is relatively simple in how it’s done. Incisions are carefully marked into the skin. Following them, the doctors create an entry way into the body, then insert what is know as a cannula into the flesh. Guiding it to the fat, taking care not to poke organs or rupture any blood vessels, the cannula is used to break up the unwanted fat and then suck it up, almost like a vacuum cleaner sucking dirt out of a carpet, removing it from the body.
The whole point of the surgery then is for a patient to shed some body fat. This makes it sound like the greatest weight loss solution ever invented! The irony though is that doctors are careful to note that this is not a weight loss technique, and not just anyone can stroll in and get it done. A patient must be in good standing health, preferably be thin and already leading a healthy lifestyle. A patient must also abstain from smoking before coming in for surgery.
Also note that the average amount of fat removed is just shy of 10 pounds. This is not a huge amount of fat, meaning that this is no cure or remedy for obesity. Taking out more fat than this from the body exposes the patient to all sorts of risks, and is rarely done.
One of the good aspects of liposculpture is that, compared to many other types of surgeries, the patient is back on their feet very quickly. It is rare for someone not to go back to work or school within a few days of having had surgery. It will, however, be a number of months before the body fully heals itself and all swelling and numbness have disappeared. Once this has occurred though, the patient should be able to see the full results of their surgery, and hopefully be very happy with their thinner body!