Excessive fat accumulation makes the body lose its beautiful curves and causes various inconveniences in life. Nowadays, the most commonly used negative pressure fat aspiration is used for body sculpting from an aesthetic point of view, and in special cases, the extracted fat can be processed and transplanted to concave and thin parts of the body by injection to improve the shape, thus achieving the purpose of removing the high and replacing the low, and perfectly shaping the contour of the body. Negative pressure liposuction causes little damage to the tissues, with obvious results, little bleeding and fast recovery. Tummy tuck is performed in the fat layer underneath the skin. The procedure does not enter the abdominal cavity and does not leave obvious incisions on the skin, so it does not have a significant impact on pregnancy or fertility.
The abdomen is the most common site for fat aspiration, accounting for more than half of all liposuction cases. The navel incision is usually chosen to hide the surgical scar in the navel fossa. In addition, for lower abdominal liposuction, the incision can also be chosen in hidden areas such as the groin and pubic hair distribution area. After the surgery, it is necessary to wear elastic shapewear for about 3 months, and after the swelling subsides, a more ideal shape will be achieved. The results depend on the amount of local aspiration, the symmetry and flatness of the area, and the natural transition to the surrounding non-aspirated areas. In some areas where the fat is dense and difficult to be suctioned out, it can be easily suctioned out of the body with the use of ultrasound, high frequency electric field, laser lipolysis and other techniques that first melt the fat into a liquid or semi-liquid form.
Any surgery has certain side effects and risks, and liposuction surgery is no exception. After liposuction surgery there are usually varying degrees of subcutaneous bruising, hard knots, numbness, pain, and mild high and low levels at the liposuction site, and these symptoms take several months to recover slowly. Since liposuction generally requires semi-body or general anesthesia, discomfort and possible accidents after anesthesia, such as post-operative nausea, vomiting, dizziness, etc., should also be taken into consideration.
If the local liposuction is performed under local anesthesia and the amount of liposuction is within 2,000ml, hospitalization is not necessary. If the liposuction is performed on more than two parts and the amount of liposuction is more than 2,500ml, or if the liposuction is performed under semi-body or general anesthesia, hospitalization is required for about 2~3 days for observation. For safety reasons, it is not recommended to have a large volume of multi-site liposuction at one time. Generally, it is safer to have less than 2,000ml of fat in one suction, and too much liposuction will increase the risk of the surgery.
The number of fat cells in a person is constant since birth, and after puberty, the fat cells will only grow in size and will no longer increase in number. Liposuction can eliminate some of the fat cells, but the remaining portion will not return to its original size even if it expands a bit. Liposuction can only remove part of the subcutaneous fat from the body, but it cannot “eliminate” all the fat inside and outside the body. For people who are obese all over the body, in addition to the subcutaneous fat, a large amount of fat accumulates in the deeper layers of the trunk and the abdominal cavity, which cannot be removed by liposuction. Therefore, liposuction can only achieve the effect of body shaping, but not the purpose of weight reduction.
Precautions before treatment
1. Pre-operative comprehensive examination. As fat extraction surgery is a relatively large operation, in order to fully ensure the safety of patients, the pre-operative examination of liposuction is relatively strict, not only limited to the local situation, but also requires a comprehensive evaluation of the patient’s health status and the functional status of the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys and other major organs.
2, truthfully inform the doctor of previous illnesses, what kind of drugs they are allergic to, whether they have taken diet pills, birth control pills and other drugs, whether they have had weight loss treatment or liposuction, etc., as these may have an impact on the surgery.
3. For older people, blood pressure and blood sugar should also be checked, and for long-term smokers, lung function should be checked and smoking should be stopped before surgery.
4, female patients should pay attention to avoid menstruation, because during menstruation is easy to bleed, slow recovery after surgery.
5.Liposuction can be done in any season, but considering that you have to wear tight clothes for several months after liposuction, liposuction may be less convenient in summer.
Precautions after treatment
1.After liposuction surgery, local pressure bandage is needed to compress and shape the liposuction area to reduce the occurrence of complications such as hematoma and local unevenness.
2, it is normal for some petechiae and unevenness to appear on the liposuction site, which will take a few weeks to subside. If the compression is not exact, local subcutaneous fluid may also appear, then it needs to be treated by the doctor.
3. After the surgery, you should have a good lifestyle, especially pay attention to your diet structure, avoid high sugar, high fat and high calorie diet, and pay attention to keep proper exercise to maintain good results after liposuction surgery. If you feel that having had surgery is equivalent to being in the safe, overeating and binge drinking, it is possible to be even fatter than before.
4. It is best to be hospitalized for 2~3 days after the surgery for observation. After 3 days of intravenous infusion of antibiotics, switch to oral anti-inflammatory drugs for 3~5 days. Change the medication on the 1st or 2nd day after surgery according to the exudation, observe the local situation and change the dressing such as cotton pad of the bandage, and maintain the pressure bandage.
5. The stitches are removed on the 10th day after surgery. The incisions should not be wet before the stitches are removed. After the stitches are removed, the pressure bandage can be removed, but you must wear tight-fitting clothes with proper pressure for more than 3 months to facilitate better skin recovery and tightening and body shape maintenance after the liposuction surgery.
Indications and Contraindications
Liposuction is not suitable for all obese people, but only for patients with localized obesity and localized subcutaneous fat accumulation have better results and can achieve the purpose of shaping beautiful body curves. Those who have the following conditions should avoid liposuction.
1, those who have declining function of major organs such as heart, liver, lungs and kidneys and cannot tolerate the surgery.
2, those who have psychological barriers, high expectations and demanding requirements for their own shape.
3, those with severe skin laxity and too little subcutaneous fat
4, those who are allergic to anesthetics and those who have a history of drug abuse such as drug addiction and heavy smoking
5.Persons with local skin inflammation or more scarring.
6, women who are menstruating, breastfeeding and pregnant
7, morbidly obese or obese based on other diseases, should first treat the primary disease
8.Patients with unstable or difficult to control diseases, such as hypertension or hyperglycemia.
9, minors under 18 years of age.
10, the doctor believes that liposuction is not appropriate for other cases.
Caesarean section scar plastic and abdominal wall plastic.
Women in the cesarean section often leave a long scar in the abdomen, some scar will also occur hyperplasia, not only unsightly appearance, sometimes there is pain and itching symptoms, very uncomfortable. In this case, a cesarean scar surgery can be performed on the abdomen to remove the scar, re-sew the skin, and make the new scar less visible by means of fine plastic surgery sutures and local drug injections.
Abdominal wall deformities due to various causes require abdominoplasty. It is currently believed that abdominal wall deformities are mainly caused by skin laxity, subcutaneous fat accumulation, and laxity of the rectus abdominis and external oblique abdominal muscles. This may be more difficult to achieve with conventional liposuction methods, requiring some skin removal and reorganization of the abdominal wall structure. Abdominoplasty will achieve a fairly perfect sculpting effect, but it has the significant disadvantage of leaving a long scar due to the removal of skin. If the patient has an existing cesarean scar, an abdominoplasty can be done using the original scar on the abdomen to remove excess fat and excess loose skin around the scar, tighten the abdomen and reduce the waistline, which not only trims the original scar, does not create a new scar, but also achieves a shaping effect, killing two birds with one stone.
On the basis of scar reshaping and abdominoplasty, the subcutaneous fat of other parts of the abdomen can be aspirated to enhance the effect of the surgery, and the appearance of the whole abdomen will be significantly improved.
Indications and Contraindications
Single cesarean scar surgery is a simpler local anesthetic procedure, and the principles of surgery can be followed for general local anesthetic surgery. Abdominoplasty requires general anesthesia and hospitalization. It is suitable for patients with abdominal wall deformities and loose skin and soft tissues, and its surgical contraindications are the same as those for negative pressure liposuction.