What are the known liposuction complications? Are they common? In a 2020 editorial in the PRS Global Open journal, it noted the “liposuction is now considered one of the safest cosmetic procedures performed“. This is after years of refining techniques and improving surgeon training. (Reference link). Liposuction is a procedure where cannulas are inserted under skin to remove fat tissue. […]
Fat grafting (aka fat transfer or lipofilling) is not exactly new. Fat grafting as a procedure has been around for as long as liposuction has been available. Fats removed during liposuction were cleaned and re-injected back to areas that needed augmentation. Fat grafting has for a long time been used on the breasts, the buttocks, the back the hands, and […]
How did Vaser HD and Vaser 4D Sculpt evolve? As Liposuction as a procedure, which was invented in the 1980s evolved, there can a need to improve beyond just removing fats. Patients had to look fit and athletic after liposuction. In the beginning there was etching, where supposed outlines of muscular anatomy were etched from below the skin during a […]
What are the types of liposuction available? There are so many types. But broadly speaking there is conventional liposuction, and there are power-assisted liposuction methods. Conventional liposuction just means fat is removed via the cannula by the actions of the surgeons arm and the negative pressure of the suction. Power-assisted liposuction uses “power” either in the form of high-frequency sound […]