Fat Trimming Liposuction – When it Fails – Part I

‘FAT’ is a 3-lettered bane carrying ample baggage to submerge even cargo ships. The problem includes cosmetic as well as health, self-worth, class, wealth and political or moral beliefs. Even slender females are not off the hook as they might be worrying about the teeny-weeny roll at the waistline, a glint of double-chin, loose hanging arms or plump knees. Irrespective of how much one spins or does sit-up moves, it proves ineffective in eliminating particular hard-to-budge lumps or changing our heritable propensity.

With the introduction of plastic surgery procedures, there has been a sharp rise in unhappy customers thronging to aesthetic surgeons looking for a mend to their flaws. During 2009, over 243000 females underwent liposuction for fat removal from different regions of their body. Another 123000 had ab-firming abdominoplasty procedure. In the recent past, physicians have created many novel and non-operative means of reducing fats and chiselling the body. For making sense of the myriad choices, here is the lowdown of how and if such methods show benefits.

Liposuction – what are its pros and cons?

Liposuction is used for treatment of obstinate fatty deposits that fail to melt despite dieting and exercising like saddlebag formations or the lower tummy – that translates to the fact that it is in no way a replacement for conventional weight-reduction. Actually, dieting and exercising are necessary both pre and post procedure for deriving the most optimal outcomes.

Although physicians could extract out around 5 quarts fats via suctioning yet there is generally diminutive variation in body weight – at the max 1-2 pounds. Also liposuction cannot eradicate stretch mark formations or cellulite; contrarily it might make cellulite more apparent. No sooner fat has been removed, physicians cannot forecast or are incapable of controlling the extent of contraction which would occur to the skin above it. Generally, a patient having fine skin tone would feel his/her skin tighten when the skin starts re-distributing post-procedure. However, those women having fine, soft-textured skin could notice that their skin has sagged in the regions that have been liposuctioned. Physicians are creating substitute and non-invasive means of removing fats, however presently liposuction is deemed gold-standard.

Liposuction – Is a touch-up necessary?

Around twenty percent of the patients undergoing liposuction ask for the procedure to be re-done. Prevalent reasons for this are the uneven appearance (for instance, thighs appearing asymmetrical post-procedure) or a bumpy appearance, in which cases the physician could generally perform touch up via removal of additional fat. Development of ‘track-marks’ is yet another likely tricky situation which could arise as a consequence of fat being extracted quite near to the surface of the skin. Such a complication is quite challenging for surgeons to mend and in several scenarios might necessitate fat transfer from other areas of the body.

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