Category: liposuction

High Volume Liposuction – The Past Still Remains a Good Practice Guideline Today

While far from the oldest aesthetic procedure in plastic surgery, liposuction has become one of the most frequently performed around the world in the past four decades since its initial clinical introduction. Its ubiquitous nature in aesthetic surgery is not only because of the commonality of an excessive fat problem but also due to its Read More…

Excision of Lipomas in the Familial Multiple Lipomatosis Patient undergoing Liposuction

Familial multiple lipomatosis (FML) is a well recognized but rare condition where the patient experiences the development of subcutaneous lipomas over their lifetime on their torso and extremities. Such patients will often develop hundreds of lipomas of all sizes throughout their lifetime of which some will necessitate removal due to their size and uncomfortability. Why Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Facial Slimming with Buccal Lipectomies and Perioral Liposuction

Background: While contouring by fat reduction is a very common aesthetic approach for the body, it is must less frequently done in the face. Between the much proportionally smaller amount of fat and the restricted access to it by the facial nerves, the amount of facial contouring by fat reduction limits how much facial reductive Read More…

Technical Strategies – Perioral Mound Microliposuction

Defatting of the face is very different than the body. Due to the location of vital motor nerves, the more fibrous nature of facial fat and its very discrete locations, facial fatting is much more limited. While it is possible to selectively remove small areas of facial fat, it is not possible to have a Read More…

Guidelines for Reducing Major Complications in Liposuction

Liposuction remains the most common cosmetic body contouring procedure, both in terms of numbers of patients and body areas treated. While the overwhelming numbers of patients who undergo the procedure do well, there is always the risk of an adverse medical event. The invasive nature of the procedure with instrument introduction and the infusion of Read More…

Does Large Volume Liposuction Have Medical Benefits?

Liposuction is a well known subcutaneous fat removing technique that has proven to be very effective. It can be so effective that large volume liposuction became commonly practiced until its potential adverse effects and complication rates came to light and safe amounts of maximum removal became established. (5 liters) While not a weight loss technique, Read More…

OR Snapshots – The Safe Limit of Fat Removal in Liposuction

Liposuction is the most commonly performed cosmetic body contouring procedure, both by number of patients and body surface area. It has undergone a lot of technical improvements over the past third-five years from patient indications to the technical equipment needed to perform it. While understandably viewed as an aesthetic procedure, its traumatic impact on the Read More…

The Safety and Effectiveness of Perioral Mound Liposuction

While liposuction is widely used over many body areas, its applications to the face are much more limited. Between the far fewer isolated fat pockets and the location of motor nerve branches, facial liposuction is a fairly limited technique for fat reduction outside of the neck. One facial area that can have liposuction done is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Power-Assisted Liposuction for Buffalo Hump Reduction

Background: The buffalo hump deformity is a well known collection of fat in the back of the neck. It is a seemingly unusual place to develop a fatty collection given that it is a body area that is associated with becoming ‘fat’. But there is a congenital fat pad in the upper back known as Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Knobby Knee Liposuction

Background: Excess fat collections can occur all over the body. Some may occur from excess calories (e.g., abdomen) while others occur as part of one’s development. (e.g., arms) But regardless of its source, most fatty areas can be successfully treated by liposuction for contour improvement. Liposuction of the lower extremities is the second most common Read More…