ALL ABOUT LIPO

These days, liposuction seems to be everyone’s answer to a less-than-perfect body. But what is liposuction? It is a surgical procedure involving the removal of excess body fat through. Fat distribution in the body largely depends on heredity and diet. By the time a person reaches puberty, he would already have all the fat cells he will ever have in the body part where it is supposed to be. Diet can increase or decrease the amount of fat in each cell, but won’t affect the number of cells. So if a person inherited a large number of fat cells on her hips and a small number on her chest, then she’ll always have a bigger butt than breasts. Liposuction can be used to contour the chin, neck, cheeks, upper arms, breasts, abdomen, buttocks, hips, thighs, knees, calves, and ankles.

The ideal candidate for liposuction should not be more than 10 to 15 percent above is ideal weight. It should be preferably young because they still have good skin elasticity. This makes for a smooth surface contour. Although liposuction can remove some of the fat cells, it is not a guaranty that your body will not go back to its original form if you do not watch your diet, those remaining cells can get bigger or smaller. There are also the so called progenitor cells. You call them baby cells, which, as the need arises, can produce fat cells.

Patients are given a complete medical checkup about two weeks before the operation. It should check if the patient is underlying medical problems..for example if the patient is hypertensive, his blood pressure should be controlled to avoid bleeding problem. Patients who are smokers are asked to stop smoking two weeks before the operation.

The procedure can take anywhere from 30 minutes to four hours. Four horizontal incisions about 1.5 centimeters each were made on the lower part of the abdomen. A

surgical cannula or tube was then inserted through the incision into the fat. The cannula was attached by flexible tubing to a vacuum pump. The cannula sucked out his fat cells. Since there is a blood loss involved, only 5 liters of fat were taken up. That is the maximum. If it goes beyond, there might have massive blood loss. There are fluid replacements given to a patient because lot of fluid were lost.

After the surgical operation, there are certain amount of swelling and bruising and, for some patients, numbness. For two weeks, patients wear either a girdle or a snug elastic dressing over the treated area to reduce swelling and helps shrink the skin. Scarring is not much of a problem because incisions can be made in natural body creases or in areas hidden by clothing. Price for the operation is affordable depending on where you get it and more importantly, who performs it.

Risks is also expected. There are fatalities reported since this kind of operation was introduced. Three of the patients die of low blood pressure and hearts rates with no definitively identified cause. Another died of fluid overload. Still another due to clotted blood getting into the lungs. But inspite those casualties, they found out that no records are kept of deaths or complications arising from the procedure. In some states in the world, doctors are not required to prove that they know how to perform a liposuction before offering the service. The doctors are dermatologists but not surgeons. They have only taken six-month training courses in the field of aesthetics, but have little or no experience in surgery.

Liposuction is not a trivial procedure because it has the potential to kill otherwise healthy persons. Despite such a gloomy admonition it seems that liposuction is here to stay. But in some, it is very beneficial, it has change their life and became famous.