Liposuction Body shape is a symbol of charm, people desire their body shape to be as beautiful as models, but bulging abdomen, fat hips and thick arms and thighs make people at a loss, although taking diet pills, dieting and physical exercise can make weight loss and achieve certain results, but some parts are not always as desired and the effect is difficult to maintain for a long time. Liposuction can help you solve the problem and make your body shape improve. 1.What is liposuction? Liposuction is short for fat aspiration, which is a surgical technique to remove excess subcutaneous fat through a tiny skin incision to achieve body sculpting. Currently, the common methods include negative pressure suction (including electric negative pressure suction and syringe method suction), ultrasonic liposuction and electronic liposuction. Regardless of the method, the subcutaneous fat is extracted through a metal tube with a very small skin incision into the skin or by oscillation. With the application of swelling anesthesia technology, the damage caused by negative pressure suction is greatly reduced, and it has become a relatively safe and popular procedure. 2.Who and what parts of the body can be subjected to liposuction? Liposuction is suitable for those who are relatively normal in weight but are locally obese and disproportionate. These localized fat accumulation does not respond to weight loss and physical exercise. Liposuction is also indicated for patients with moderate obesity and sagging skin. For patients with obesity and sagging skin, it is possible to remove the sagging skin at the same time as fat extraction to achieve better surgical results. There are many parts of the body that can be liposuctioned, and the parts that are often sucked are: abdomen, iliac waist, buttocks, chest (including male breast enlargement), back, thighs, upper arms, back of the calf and jaw, etc. 3.What are the complications of liposuction? Common complications include: local unevenness, asymmetry on both sides, insufficient suction, etc. Other complications may occur: infection, seroma, skin sagging, pigmentation changes, damage to surrounding tissues, post-operative pain and walking disruption, fat embolism, etc. With the continuous improvement of medical technology, liposuction is a safer cosmetic surgery, however, the physician who performs the surgery must undergo strict training, master the indications for the surgery, and have perfect medical equipment. In recent years, there are tens of thousands of cases of patients in plastic surgery hospitals successfully performed liposuction, the surgical results are satisfactory, no serious complications. 4.Will it rebound after liposuction? According to biochemical theory, the number of fat cells is fixed at birth and constant with age until adulthood. The weight of adults changes with the change of fat cell volume, and non-surgical methods to lose weight can only make the volume of inflated fat cells smaller, while the number of cells remains the same. Liposuction removes part of the adipose tissue and reduces the number of adipocytes. For a normal weight human body, liposuction does not change the balance of energy metabolism of the body, and the metabolic efficiency does not increase, thus regeneration of adipose tissue does not occur. If the patient’s weight increases significantly, the thickness of fat in the liposuction area will increase, but it is much smaller than the area that is not suctioned. Therefore, it is still necessary to control the diet and strengthen physical exercise after liposuction. As long as the weight after liposuction can be maintained, the effect of liposuction is permanent. 5.How much weight can be lost after liposuction? Due to the small proportion of fat, for patients with normal weight, the body shape has changed more than after liposuction, but the change of weight is not much, for patients with overweight, the weight is reduced after liposuction, but the body shape has changed a lot. Liposuction is mainly body sculpture, whether fat or thin, the body shape is the most attractive. 6.What is the effect of liposuction on the human body? Obese patients often have hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes, and the risk of morbidity is higher for patients with central obesity. Some statistics show that: men with waist circumference of 85cm or more, women with waist circumference of 80cm or more have about 3.5 times the risk of hypertension and about 2.5 times the risk of diabetes for those with waist circumference below this limit. Abdominal fat is more easily decomposed and enters the liver through the portal vein, causing dyslipidemia, which is a risk factor for atherosclerosis. Fat aspiration, especially a large amount of abdominal fat aspiration, can increase insulin sensitivity, reduce blood sugar and lower blood lipids. Liposuction is not only harmless to the body, but can reduce the occurrence of the above-mentioned diseases and play a role in disease prevention. 7.What should I pay attention to before and after liposuction? (1) Have a comprehensive understanding of liposuction and have a correct understanding of the procedure. (2) Undergo an examination to determine whether your body is suitable for the surgery. (3) Discuss with your physician the areas to be liposuctioned and present your requirements. If there are many areas to be liposuctioned, a comprehensive and reasonable surgical plan should be made. (4) The surgery should be avoided during menstruation. (5) Due to the large amount of local tumescent solution injected during the operation, the external dressing may be penetrated on the day after the operation, and in the case of lower abdominal liposuction, edema will occur in the perineum, which are normal phenomena. Appropriate activities can be done after the operation, strenuous exercise or long term bed rest is not advocated. After the liposuction area is bandaged with pressure for 5 to 7 days, the elastic tights are replaced for 1 to 3 months. (6) In the short term, the liposuction area may become hard, slightly uneven, deepen in color and feel numb, etc. These are normal phenomena and generally recover in about 3 months. 8.How many parts can be sucked at one time? Liposuction is a relatively safe and reliable cosmetic surgery, but it can be dangerous if more than one part is aspirated at a time. Depending on the patient’s specific situation, 1-2 areas are usually aspirated at a time. The surgery can be performed under local anesthesia. If the patient is fat, the amount of anesthetic used during the surgery is larger or the patient is nervous and afraid of pain, intensive anesthesia can be used. 9.Will liposuction affect my work? Because of the anesthetic effect, fat aspiration will not feel pain on the day, but there will be liquid leakage, which is the expansion fluid injected during the operation and a small amount of bleeding, the leakage will soak through the external dressing, which is a normal phenomenon, and the external dressing can be changed the next day, and after 5-7 days, it can be replaced with a tight-fitting dressing. During this period, you should avoid strenuous exercise, advocate normal activities, and can go to work. Therefore, fat aspiration is a kind of cosmetic surgery with little pain and almost no effect on work. 10.What is the best time for liposuction? Liposuction is feasible all year round, but since liposuction needs to be wrapped with cotton pads for 5-7 days afterwards, and tights need to be worn for 1 to 3 months afterwards, liposuction is best performed in cooler weather. 11.What is fat injection grafting all about? Fat injection grafting is a surgical procedure in which fat tissue extracted from one part of the body is transplanted to another part of the body in the form of an injection, which can then be used for deformity repair or body sculpting. Fat injections are safe and reliable because the fat injected is your own tissue and no rejection will occur. Fat injections can be used for breast augmentation, lip augmentation, temple augmentation, and filling in sunken deformities in certain parts of the body. Since the injected fat cannot be fully viable, multiple injections are often required to achieve the desired surgical effect, and the interval between two surgeries is usually about two months. 12.What else can liposuction be used to treat? Besides body contouring and weight loss, liposuction can also be used to treat breast enlargement, male breast enlargement, parametriosis and to assist in scar repair. Because liposuction is simple, safe, reliable, and does not require hospitalization, in addition to small skin incisions and inconspicuous scars, more and more patients with gynecomastia and parastomalacia are willing to undergo liposuction and have achieved satisfactory results. Liposuction is currently a widely performed cosmetic surgery. It is an artificially invasive procedure whose safety guarantee depends on the health status of the surgeon and the size of the aspiration area. Liposuction reduces the number of localized fat cells and does not rebound after surgery, making it an effective way to improve body shape and lose weight. Liposuction can improve the body’s sensitivity to insulin and lower the blood cholesterol level, which is beneficial to the health of the body. In addition to weight loss and body contouring, fat aspiration is also used for the treatment of male breast enlargement, breast enlargement, parasthesia, scarring and other conditions. The extracted fat can also be injected for breast augmentation, temporal augmentation (temples), filling in facial and body surface depressions of deformities.