1. What is a successful liposuction surgery?

When a perfect candidate undergoes liposuction and has the perfect result.

Patient selection is extremely important. Patients must have diet and exercise resistant fat with over lying skin that has fair to excellent elasticity. These are the patients who have the greatest likelihood for a successful result.


2. What Alternatives Are There to Liposuction?

No procedure has the safety and result profile that liposuction has, however, I believe that soon we will have safe chemicals that we will be able to inject that will dissolve small areas of diet and exercise resistant fat. Hopefully we will also have non invasive devices that will dissolve fat by heating it to higher temperatures that will reduce fat and also promote skin elasticity.


3. What type of liposuction is the best?

The key is the surgeon's training, skill and judgment. There are many different "tools" to use, that are effective to remove fat. Traditional liposuction and power assisted liposuction are very similar. The only difference is that with the power assisted machine there is a handle that mechanically moves the canula in and out. Ultrasonic and Vaser use ultrasound technology to disrupt the fat cells and then the cells are removed with suction.


4. How is Tumescent Liposuction performed?

The term "tumescent liposuction" means that the area to be liposuctioned is pretreated with injections of fluid that has local anesthesia and epinephrine which together decrease pain and bleeding to those areas during liposuction. Tumescent pretreatment is used prior to all invasive liposuction techniques.


5. How long does Tumescent Liposuction take?

45min-1.5 hours per area that is treated.


6. What anesthesia is used with Tumescent Liposuction?

This depends on the patients level of anxiety and the extent of the treatment planned.


7. Who can perform Tumescent Liposuction?

Patients should evaluate the physician's training, certification, experience and results. Typically Plastic Surgeons (certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery) are the only specialists who are trained by a standardized educational accredited program and certified after rigorous training and testing exam to perform liposuction on any part of the body.Some Board Certified dermatologists opt to do additional training in cosmetic dermatology. These individuals often have the training to perform more limited liposuction procedures.