Category: liposuction | technical strategies

Technical Strategies – Abdominal Etching Techniques

Liposuction of the abdomen is the single most common body site in which fat is surgically extracted. Most people are happy with some reduction of their abdominal fullness with the hope of being as flat as they can possibly be. An overall better abdominal shape is the goal and most patients would define abdominal shaping Read More…

What is the Maximum Amount of Fat That Can Be Safely Removed by Liposuction?

Liposuction is one of the most common and successful body contouring procedures. Having now been around for almost 35 years in the U.S., it has undergone many evolutions and refinements in treatment strategies and in the equipment to do it. With widespread use of liposuction by many different practitioners and methods, complications from liposuction surgery Read More…

Safety of Tummy Tuck Combined with Abdominal Liposuction

A tummy tuck is a major abdominal operation that usually removes a large horizontal ellipse of lower abdominal skin and fat. While tremendously effective, many patients having the procedure have excess fat beyond the zone of the tummy tuck excision whose reduction would improve the overall abdominal contouring result. While liposuction of the flanks is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Power-Assisted Liposuction for Male Gynecomastia Reduction

Background: Gynecomastia, or male breast enlargement, occurs in a wide variety of forms and ages. While typically perceived as a condition that occurs in teens and young men as a reaction to elevated hormonal levels from puberty, gynecomastia occurs equally in older men as well. ‘Man boobs’ as they are often called can be an Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Knee and Calf Liposuction

Background: Liposuction is performed over many areas of the body, most commonly in the trunk region. (abdomen, chest and flanks) Its success is largely dependent on how well the overlying skin can retract after the underlying fat is removed. There are numerous types of liposuction that claim superior results if used. But the key to Read More…

Case Study: Liposuction of the Male Stomach and Love Handles

Background: Liposuction remains a popular and very effective method of body contouring through subcutaneous fat removal. While there are numerous types of liposuction, the surgeon’s technique and attention to detail is probably more important than any single liposuction technology. In essence the hands and experience of the surgeon always trumps technology. While men probably make Read More…

Technical Strategies – Postoperative Foam Dressing for Abdominal Etching Liposculpture Surgery

Abdominal contouring is commonly done using liposuction. Most of the time this is fat debulking or overall volume reduction to get rid of larger volumes of fat. But in thinner patients, almost always men, they desire a more refined type of liposuction described more appropriately as liposculpture. This is the removal of smaller amounts of Read More…

The Importance of Skin Elasticity in Liposuction

Liposuction is the ‘largest’ cosmetic procedure performed around the world if it is rated based on surface area alone. It is certainly by sheer numbers one of the top five aesthetic body procedures performed every year as shown by annual statistics. But the extent of the surface area it treats is what really distinguishes liposuction Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Facial Reshaping by Buccal Lipectomies and Perioral Mound Liposuction

Background: The shape of the face is controlled by a variety of anatomic structures. Its foundation is influenced by the size and contour of the deeper facial bones, the thickness of the muscle and fat that lies above it and the amount and tightness of the overlying skin which envelopes it all. While everyone’s facial Read More…

Technical Strategies – Small Cannula Power-Assisted Liposuction in the Lower Extremity for Cankles

Liposuction is done for two fundamental purposes, to either debulk larger fatty areas or treat smaller areas for more refined shaping. The latter is often referred to as ‘liposculpture’. Such finesse or refinement liposuction is often done on smaller body areas which are resistant to improvement through diet and exercise and often escape awareness that Read More…